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Article: Blair: Iraq must give inspectors full and free access
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- AP Worldstream
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- October 3, 2002
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Dateline: BLACKPOOL, England
Military action against Iraq is still not inevitable if Saddam Hussein
lets in United Nations weapons inspectors and gets rid of all his
weapons of mass destruction, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday.
"He can't avoid" disarmament, the prime minister said at a news conference.
"It's going to happen one way or another."
Speaking as his governing Labor Party wound down its five-day conference
in northern England, Blair said Saddam did not have to be deposed
and could keep his conventional weapons.
"The world has decided, rightly, that Saddam Hussein, he can have
a conventional army and navy and air force and ...