Blair was wrong in invading Iraq, says his spin doctor  London:
Former British prime minister Tony Blair committed a mistake by
sending his country to war in Iraq, according to Lord Mandelson,
a former Labour cabinet minister.  Mandelson has been Labour
party's former king of political spin, who helped mastermind
Blair's three consecutive victories at general elections, the
Daily Express reported Tuesday.  He said the former prime
minister believed victory over Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
would be a "short, sweet success" rather than the eight years of
bloodbath that claimed the lives of 179 members of Britain's
armed forces.  In an interview with this month's Esquire
magazine, Mandelson also sought to blame the US for the
invasion.  "He (Blair) expected it, obviously, not to be a walk
in the park but to be a short, sweet success with the downfall
of Saddam... It didn't turn out like that, which was more the
Americans' fault than his."  "But, I think, he should have gone
into it with his eyes wider open,"