The president said not to blame him if taxes rise for everyone on Jan. 1, 2011.

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No less crucially, Mr Yudhoyono has persuaded enough people not to blame him for the downturn.

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The inquiry panel said there were probably shortcomings in the amount and detail of intelligence information he received but no blame could be attached to him for not acting on information he had not received.

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And I don't want to blame him for - you know, it's probably not fair to do that - but there's no question that as soon as he started to talk, the market started to give back its gains and the selling took over.

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Lucas Neill should not have fallen over in the box, but I don't really want to blame him as he was our best player.

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