Al-Jazeera-English; Blair/Frost Iraq 'Disaster' Interview; The Full Transcript

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's instinctive reaction to Sir David Frost's Iraq 'disaster' description was to immediately agree.

However, in no time flat the Downing Street spin machine had been switched on -- super-speed style..

And already, almighty arguments are raging almost everywhere as to whether Mr Blair meant what he said, or did not.

Well, we know what we two think. What about you?

To help you decide for yourself, we found the official Al-Jazeera-English, entire transcript of today's much talked about Tony Blair/Sir David Frost interview.

But first, here's our traditional opening teaser/taster.

NEWS PROGRAMMES

FROST OVER THE WORLD

Interview with Tony Blair

Blair covered a wide range of issues

* David Frost: [Starting with the new European Peace Initiative] ... they hope that we would back it and join it, will we join it?

Tony Blair: I am in favour of anything that moves the process forward, between Israel and Palestine. I think it's the single most important objective for us in terms of changing the whole atmosphere and climate in the, in the Middle East and obviously I've been working very hard with our American Allies but also with other Europeans to try and make sure we keep it at the top of the agenda.I think there are possibilities of progress but we've got to make sure that we do everything that is within our possibility to change the situation there.

* But will we join this bid or carry on separately?

I mean I haven't looked at the details of it but I think that, that the key elements are those that we've been working on and others have been working on all the way through and so of course it's good to have everyone on the same page.

But it's really about making sure that we make progress towards the two-state solution, that we get in place the right elements that allow us, for example, to get Corporal Shalit released then get Palestinian prisoners released, that we get a National Unity Government in Palestine, that we manage to get into a situation
where we're negotiating about the details of peace rather than looking at the appalling consequences of conflict.

* But whatever the EU can do with the Palestinians and so on, and they obviously can do something, is it in fact progress and this target you have for Middle East peace, while you're in office if possible it all depends on the United States putting wholehearted pressure on Israel?

Well you're absolutely right in saying the role of the US is crucial but you see I ....

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