Blair ‘desperately sorry’ for Iraq war deaths: memoirs

AFP
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

LONDON — Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he was “desperately sorry” over the deaths in the Iraq war, in extracts released Tuesday from his memoirs.

Blair said he was “sorry for the lives cut short”, but maintained it was right to remove dictator Saddam Hussein from power, in extracts from “A Journey”, his account of his decade in office.

He said the aftermath of the 2003 invasion was “terrible” and said he wept over the loss of life.

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Blair said he still felt a sense of “anguish” for the relatives of those killed in the conflict.

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“The anguish arises from a sense of sadness that goes beyond conventional description or the stab of compassion you feel on hearing tragic news,” he wrote.

“Tears, though there have been many, do not encompass it.”

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