British Prime Minister Tony Blair has flatly acknowledged that his main argument for taking a reluctant country to war — Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction — has turned out to be wrong.
Blair yesterday offered Labour party members an apology for the error in a bid to heal deep divisions over the war before a general election expected next year. But he refused to apologize for taking part in the U.S.-led invasion, even as a heckler disrupted his speech by shouting: "You've got blood on your hands."
"The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons ... has turned out to be wrong," Blair told delegates at the Labour party convention in Brighton, south of London.
"The problem is, I can apologize for the information that turned out to be wrong but I can't, sincerely at least, apologize for removing Saddam," he said. "The world is a better place with Saddam in prison."
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