Blame me (…up to a point)

As two more British soldiers die in Iraq, Blair tries to quell war furore controversy

Tony Blair admitted yesterday that his stance on Iraq had led to a collapse in his trust ratings and appealed to Labour to set aside differences on the war and work for a historic third term.

Sorry Tony, Bush already used the by-gones’ line - it didn’t work for him and it won’t work for you.

Some of us have the luxury of screwing up and then saying ‘my bad’… people who start wars on false pretenses and kill, wound, or maim tens of thousands of innocent people people, and destroy lives and cities, do not - you, Mr Blair, fall into the latter category.

The Prime Minister finally apologised for the flawed intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programme, but refused to say sorry for taking the country to war on a false prospectus. He told the Labour conference in Brighton: “The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it.

Did he not stake his political career on this? If he had a shred of honour in him he’d admit to what really happened, come clean with it all, step down, and call on Bush to do the honourable thing and follow his lead.