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Britain will pay blood price of our alliance, Blair tells US (Andy McSmith, , Andrew Sparrow and David Millward, 06/09/2002, Daily Telegraph)

Tony Blair has indicated that he is ready to risk seeing British service personnel injured or killed in a war with Iraq.

In a statement that will dismay his domestic critics, but raise his standing in the US before his weekend visit for talks with President Bush, the Prime Minister promised that Britain would be alongside the Americans "when the shooting starts".

Mr Blair also agreed that Britain's willingness to "pay the blood price" was part of the special relationship with America.

Proclaim it, to Schroeder
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 6, 2002 9:48 PM