“Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.”

—  Tony Blair

Prime Minister's monthly press conference, April 2003 http://web.archive.org/20030511155256/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page3535.asp, Prime Minister's website.
28 April 2003.
2000s

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