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Tony Blair, a sometime socialist and definitely not a natural war monger

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History would indicate you are wrong on both counts

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But a decision had to be made. And we selected Mr Blair and paid him to make these decisions for us.

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At which point he very decisively let GWB make the decision for us!

As for the cost of the Olympics - why do we have to build a brand new velodrome in London - do we not already have a world class venue of this type in Manchester???