Otto42
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War crimes is way over the top, most western leaders since 1945 would have been in jail on that basis. I think Blair believed that supporting Bush in getting rid of Saddam was the right thing to do for the country and Bush was going in whatever Britain decided. Blair thought he could influence Bush, this was his big mistake. Parliament (including most Conservatives) voted to go to war, the dodgy dossier has been over played and that was also a mistake on Blair's part. I honestly believe that Parliament would have voted to support Bush without the dossier, but Blair wanted to take his party with him too.The 'mistake' over Iraq should be held against him for the rest of his life.
It wasn't a simple 'mistake'. It was a wilfull disregard of intelligence, or the lack of intelligence, that lead us to war under false pretences.
As I said above, he's lucky he's not doing time for war crimes.