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Wednesday December 16 5:59 PM ET Blair Says UK Launches Attack Against Iraq LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday British and U.S. forces had launched an attack against Iraq at 2200 GMT. ``We have exhausted all other avenues,'' Blair said in a statement, delivered outside his Downing Street residence. Describing British involvement as significant, Blair accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of ``constant lies, prevarication and breaching of the agreed conditions.'' In Washington, the White House said the U.S. had launched a substantial military strike against Iraq after deciding President Saddam Hussein would never cooperate with U.N. inspections of his weapons facilities. Blair said: ``We have no option but to act.'' He added that the strikes were aimed at degrading Saddam's capability to build and use weapons of mass destruction. Saddam is ``a threat to the security of the world,'' Blair said. Attacking Saddam as a serial breaker of promises, Blair said Britain had no quarrel with the Iraqi people and was taking every care to avoid civilian casualties. Military action followed outrage in the West at what U.N. weapons inspectors said was Iraq's refusal to allow them to investigate site suspected of harboring weapons of mass destruction. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html