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Blair was wrong in invading Iraq, says his spin doctor
Tuesday November 06, 2012 10:08:39 PM,
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London: Former British
prime minister Tony Blair committed a mistake by sending his
country to war in Iraq, according to Lord Mandelson, a former
Labour cabinet minister.
Mandelson has been Labour party's former king of political spin,
who helped mastermind Blair's three consecutive victories at
general elections, the Daily Express reported Tuesday.
He said the former prime minister believed victory over Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein would be a "short, sweet success" rather
than the eight years of bloodbath that claimed the lives of 179
members of Britain's armed forces.
In an interview with this month's Esquire magazine, Mandelson also
sought to blame the US for the invasion.
"He (Blair) expected it, obviously, not to be a walk in the park
but to be a short, sweet success with the downfall of Saddam... It
didn't turn out like that, which was more the Americans' fault
than his."
"But, I think, he should have gone into it with his eyes wider
open," Mandelson remarked.
In 2003, Blair had to face big street protests over Britain's
involvement in the Iraq war and was dogged by accusations that he
had shown blind subservience to the administration of the then US
president George W. Bush.
The Iraq war was an armed conflict which consisted of two phases.
The first was an invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by the US and Britain,
commencing March 20, 2003.
The second was a longer phase of fighting, in which an insurgency
emerged to oppose coalition forces and the newly formed Iraqi
government. The war officially ended Dec 18, 2011, when the US
completed its withdrawal of military personnel.
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