The British prime minister has been politically destroyed by the Iraq war. Gerard Baker believes the opprobrium is excessive:
People used to shout ‘fascist’ at Margaret Thatcher but I don’t really ever think their heart was in it. With Mr Blair it’s deadly serious. Imagine the raucous, triumphant, mocking Shia at Saddam Hussein’s execution ‚Äî minus the beards ‚Äî and you have a sense of what most of these people feel about the Prime Minister.
(Photo: Luke McGregor/AP).
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