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Blair says history will judge us Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12378109,00.html http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12378109,00.html 'HISTORY WILL JUDGE US' History will forgive the Coalition invasion of Iraq, even if no link is proven between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said. Speaking before a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, the Prime Minister said America must "listen as well as lead" in the fight against terrorism. "Can we be sure that terrorism and weapons of mass destruction will join together? "Let us say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. "That is something I am confident history will forgive. "But if our critics are wrong, if we are right, as I believe with every fibre of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace when we should have given leadership. "That is something history will not forgive." Mr Blair was on the first leg of a marathon round-the-world diplomatic mission which will also take him to Japan, South Korea, China and Hong Kong. He thanked Senators and members of the House of Representatives for voting to award him the Congressional Gold Medal. "I feel a most urgent sense of mission about today's world," he said. "September 11 was not an isolated event but a tragic prologue - Iraq; another act; and many further struggles will be set upon this stage before it's over." Mr Blair said: "The threat comes because, in another part of the globe, there is shadow and darkness where not all the world is free, where many millions suffer under brutal dictatorships, where a third of our planet lives in a poverty beyond anything even the poorest in our societies can imagine and where a fanatical strain of religious extremism has arisen that is a mutation of the true and peaceful faith of Islam." The premier said a "new and deadly virus" had emerged which was terrorism, "whose intent to inflict destruction is unconstrained by human feeling". Mr Blair said there was a myth "that though we love freedom, others don't, that our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture". But he insisted: "Ours are not western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same - freedom, not tyranny, democracy, not dictatorship. "The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack." Last Updated: 21:42 UK, Thursday July 17, 2003

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