September 01, 2010
As U.S. President Barack Obama says it’s time to turn the page on Iraq and focus on the U-S economy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called the mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction an "understandable error". He says he could not have imagined the nightmare that unfolded in Iraq, but does not regret joining the U-S led invasion. He makes the comments in a memoir published today in the U.K. The war in Iraq claimed more than 100-thousand lives, most of them civilian.