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Mr Blair has since come close to arguing

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Mr Blair has since come close to arguing Mr Blair has since come close to arguing By contrast, Mr Brown's car pulled upbeads at the front of the conference centre, where there were only about two dozen protesters. Only one family member had asked to attend the hearing and 300 members of the public ?#x a tenth of those who joined a public ballot for tickets to the Blair testimony.

Once inside, Mr Brown stuck closely to his text,beads, telling the panel that he had always considered war to be a last resort and had focused his efforts on ensuring that if it had to go ahead, British troops would be properly funded.

"It was for me a hope right up to the last minute that diplomatic action would work," he said.

Mr Brown insisted that beadsthe international community had had no choice but to deal with the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, who led an "aggressor state" and had ridden roughshod over numerous UN resolutions.

He said that regime change had been the result of the invasion, however, rather than its objective ? as Mr Blair has since come close to arguing.

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