How Blair Misjudged the Mood of Iraq

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Summary

TONY BLAIR failed to foresee the huge resistance British soldiers would be facing in postwar Iraq, the Government admitted yesterday.

Poor planning, mistakes and misjudgments meant a 'strategic vacuum' opened up immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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How Blair Misjudged the Mood of Iraq

Downing Street was taken aback by the extent to which Iraq's police and army d...