Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks with Guardsmen, as he arrives at London's St. Paul's Cathedral, Friday Oct. 9, 2009, to attend a service of Commemoration to mark the end of combat operations in Iraq. Britain's combat operations in Iraq formally ended on April 30, six years after the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003. During that time, more than 100,000 members of the armed forces and civilian personnel served in Iraq and 179 British servicemen and women were killed.(AP Photo/John Stillwell, pool)