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Tony Blair

• September 30 -- Bush Admin Called Critics "Unpatriotic"…When, Exactly?
The Times editorializes on a Tony Blair speech defending the Iraq war: "…at least the words 'apologize' and 'wrong' were put on record, and his critics were not called unpatriotic."

• September 29 -- Putting Blair in a Box Over Iraq
A Times headline writer and reporter characterize the Iraq war as something for Tony Blair to apologize for.

• September 15 -- Bush-Blair's "Headlong Rush" to War?
Reviewing a book on Tony Blair, Alan Cowell characterizes Bush and Blair as rushing to war in Iraq and leaves out vital information about a BBC report accusing the government of exaggerating the Hussein threat.

• June 21 -- Pulling Down Pro-War Blair
Foreign correspondent Patrick Tyler's dispatch from London sees a bleak future for Tony Blair: "Iraq thus pulls like the millstone around Mr. Blair's neck…"

• November 21 -- Just Your Average Everyday Communists
Lizette Alvarez attempts to mainstream the anti-war protestors who greeted Bush in London: "...a broad cross-section of people turned up for the march, organized by the Stop the War Coalition, which also mobilized a mass protest in February. Grandmothers with canes, parents with children in strollers, high school students, women in business suits, as well as button-bedecked antiwar demonstrators gathered elbow to elbow in Trafalgar Square to voice their disapproval of Mr. Bush and his administration's foreign policies." Alvarez ignored the organizing presence of the far-left Socialist Workers Party.

• November 20 -- Warren Hoge Goes Deep for Anti-War Bias
Warren Hoge's dispatch from London "deeply" exaggerates the unpopularity of the war in Britain.

• November 14 -- Warren Hoge's Rogue Attack on Bush
Times correspondent Warren Hoge: "America is now something of a rogue state, a pariah nation….It is quite amazing to think where we were the day after September 11 and how much of that goodwill has been squandered."

• October 10 -- "Authoritarian" Tories vs. "Tolerance"
Warren Hoge files from the Conservative Party conference in Britain: "[The party] is deeply split between a traditional law and order wing known in political shorthand as authoritarians and a group with a more tolerant attitude known as modernizers who preach 'compassionate conservatism.'"

• October 6 -- Blair Cleared, But Times Still Suspicious
Warren Hoge returns with another incomplete telling of Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" controversy, stating "public suspicions, aired during six weeks of hearings this summer, that the government doctored intelligence to win support for an unpopular war." Yet those suspicions rested on a BBC report that has long been discredited.

• March 28 -- The Times Unseemly Eagerness Over Iraqi Terror “Tactics”
Alan Cowell finally finds something about the war to get enthused about: Iraq’s guerilla warfare against American troops. Cowell describes the sort of depraved fighting Iraq is unleashing as part of a long tradition of underdog warfare heralding back to antiquity: “For all that allied commanders in Iraq have expressed outrage at what they see as such dishonorable tactics, though, urban warfare has always set its own rules of guile and deceit — from the legendary use of a wooden horse at Troy over 3,000 years ago to modern times.”