Tony Blair meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe / Blair press conference comment on Saddam Hussein's execution

Tony Blair meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe / Blair press conference comment on Saddam Hussein's execution; Blair press conference SOT - [Asked if it was a mistake for the Iraqi government to reject a request from America to delay the execution of Saddam Hussein and how damaging has the manner of the execution been to the country] I can't add a great deal to what I said earlier, the fact is, as everybody saw, the manner of the execution is unacceptable and is wrong, but we should bear in mind and not allow that, whilst saying it's wrong, then to lurch into a position of forgetting the victims of Saddam, the people that he killed deliberately as an act of policy, hundreds of thousands of them in Iraq, the villages and towns wiped out by the use of chemical weapons, deliberately, as an act of government policy, so of couse any sensible moderate person makes those points about the scenes that we have seen about the execution, but it should not be then translated into some excuse for the crimes that he committed against his own people
Tony Blair meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe / Blair press conference comment on Saddam Hussein's execution; Blair press conference SOT - [Asked if it was a mistake for the Iraqi government to reject a request from America to delay the execution of Saddam Hussein and how damaging has the manner of the execution been to the country] I can't add a great deal to what I said earlier, the fact is, as everybody saw, the manner of the execution is unacceptable and is wrong, but we should bear in mind and not allow that, whilst saying it's wrong, then to lurch into a position of forgetting the victims of Saddam, the people that he killed deliberately as an act of policy, hundreds of thousands of them in Iraq, the villages and towns wiped out by the use of chemical weapons, deliberately, as an act of government policy, so of couse any sensible moderate person makes those points about the scenes that we have seen about the execution, but it should not be then translated into some excuse for the crimes that he committed against his own people
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