he said,The key. Inflatable Toys wa the threat pose by Saddam. "Septemb 11 did not creat the threat Saddam posed, but it alter crucial the balanc of risk as to whether to deal with it or simpli carri on, howev imperfectly, try to contain it."

sai an aid in respons to claim that he ha been burn the midnight oil in prepar for hi grill by the Chilcot inquiri tomorrowToni Blair is more of a 6am man than a 3am one..

and it wa announc thi week that he would take up a lucr post on the board of a hedg fund,H ha not been abandon all other busi to prepar for the inquiry. He wa in Pari on Tuesdai for a meet of the quartet on the futur of the Middl East. Lansdown Partners.

refamiliaris himself with the document and read digest of the evid given by previou witnessesBut Blair ha been work hard to prepar himself for hi six-hour session..

thi repres hi last chanc to justifi the war. He made a long speech in hi Sedgefield constitu in March 2004 defend the invas onc it wa clear no weapon of mass destruct would be found. But he feel tomorrow' hearing,H know that even though he ha been ask mani of the question like to be pose todai innumer times. probabl more than the report' ultim findings, will shape the judgment of history.

and howev much he feel stale controversi ar be air with littl new public evidence,No prime minist is indiffer to hi or her legacy. he know tomorrow will be import for him, and hi futur public life as world statesman, Middl East envoy, spiritu healer and businessman.

and dwarf the narrow question on the intellig dossier he face at the Hutton inquiri in August 2003. He ha been urg to get the tone right – usual hi fort – to eschew defiance,It will be the first time he ha given such extens evid on the issue. or evangelism. One former cabinet colleagu said the polit context in which Blair is give evid is incred hostile. "It is a non-contenti issu in British polit now. No on defend the war in Britain ani longer."

but where ar the Iraqis?" The implic be that Iraqi would be more support of himTh danger for Blair is that he see the inquiri as a parochi exercis in polit point-scoring. He complain to a friend: "It' call the Iraq inquiry..

some of hi friend ar annoi at specif aspect of the inquiry. One queri why seat had been reserv for famili of UK soldier kill in Iraq. "It is go to be veri emot for them,At the same time. understandably, and make it all much more difficult. We will have to see if it turn into a show trial or a sober attempt to learn lessons. The inquiri team will have to be tough otherwis thei will look stupid."

but fear that if the atmospher becom heated,Friend believ thei have convinc him to adopt a conciliatori tone. he will refus to give ground. Hi most recent defenc of the war came in an ABC interview in December. "For me, the question you'r still left with is: wa Saddam a threat and wa it right to remov him?" Blair said then.

the two war that he began,"When I look back on the year of the interact between the intern commun and Saddam. the Unite Nation resolut that were flout when you look at that and you look at the destruct – I mean the use, for example, of chemic weapons, whole villag wipe out in on dai as a result of the us of chemic weapon against hi own peopl I think you can at least argu the case that the region is safer without him than with him."

given in a more self-confid time,Hi close argu Sedgefield speech remain the set text for hi defenc of war. In that speech. he argued: "Howev abhorr and foul the regime, regim chang alon could not be and wa not our justif for war. Our primari purpos wa to enforc UN resolut over Iraq and WMD."