What Keeps Britian's Tony Blair Up At Night?

British Prime Minister Tony Blair held a press conference the other day whose transcript is worth reading in its entirety. The key excerpt for me:

"...I would never as British Prime Minister send British troops to war unless I thought it was necessary. But there is a direct threat to British national security in the trade in chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. And I tell you honestly what my fear is, my fear is that we wake up one day and we find either that one of these dictatorial states has used weapons of mass destruction - and Iraq has done so in the past - and we get sucked into a conflict, with all the devastation that would cause; or alternatively these weapons, which are being traded right round the world at the moment, fall into the hands of these terrorist groups, these fanatics who will stop at absolutely nothing to cause death and destruction on a mass scale. Now that is what I have to worry about.

And I understand of course why people think it is a very remote threat and it is far away and why does it bother us. I tell you every single day I am faced as British Prime Minister with information about how these weapons are proliferating, how states are trying to acquire nuclear capability - states you would not want to have that capability - how chemical and biological weapons are being freely traded by groups and individuals right across the world. Now I simply say to you, it is a matter of time unless we act and take a stand before terrorism and weapons of mass destruction come together, and I regard them as two sides of the same coin. And the reason why Iraq is important is Iraq is the issue around which this has come to have focus."