Blair and Bush admit to making mistakes in Iraq

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday called on the world community to unite to promote the “global values” of liberty, democracy, tolerance and justice.

In a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, Mr Blair accepted that the war in Iraq had “split the world” but said that now was “the moment for reconciliation in the international community” in support of its emergent democracy.

Defeat for democracy in Iraq would be a defeat for democratic values everywhere, he warned.