Defiant Blair insists war was right anyway

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair accepted full responsibility for mistakes in intelligence used to justify the Iraq war, but insisted the conflict was right.

“Iraq, the region, the wider world is a better and safer place without Saddam,” Mr Blair told parliament yesterday.

A defiant Blair welcomed the findings of the inquiry, which slammed as unreliable much of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).