Bournemouth, U.K.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair managed to keep Iraq off the official agenda of the Labor Party conference this week, as his fellow party members clamored for his head. Before the war, Blair was eloquent in asserting that Iraq posed an imminent threat, and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction has turned public opinion against him. Polls show that half of Britons, including more than 40 percent of Labor Party members, want Blair to resign before the next election. But Blair is standing his ground. “I don’t apologize for Iraq,” he said. “I am proud of what we have done.”
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