Blair: Britain Needs More Nukes Because It Can't Rely On US...

Awwwww Tony you just realising that you could not depend on the Georgie and his thugs, to bad you did not realise that 5 years ago.

The Independent Andrew Grice and Colin Brown December 4, 2006 07:54 PM

Tony Blair has argued that Britain needs to buy a new generation of nuclear weapons because it might not be able to rely on the United States to protect it if it were attacked. The Prime Minister, who flies to Washington tomorrow to discuss an exit strategy from Iraq with George Bush, surprised MPs by suggesting Britain could not take America's support for granted as he announced the Government was backing a submarine-based "son of Trident" system.

"Our co-operation with America is very close. But close as it is, the independent nature of the British deterrent is an additional insurance against circumstances where we are threatened but America is not," said Mr Blair. "These circumstances are also highly unlikely but I am unw

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