[nicky g]

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Blair is a big reason that the US went through the whole UN process leading up to the Iraq war

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So what? It didn't work, yet both of them went ahead with the war anyway.

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It's commonly thought that Blair went ahead with Iraq thinking that the UN and multilateral initiatives would play a larger role in the war than they ended up taking.

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Huh? After his attempt to get a resolution authorising the war failed, it was clear the UN and multilateral initiatives would play no role in the war.