Tony Blair offered his Labour party on Tuesday a partial apology for waging war in Iraq, striving to pull angry supporters behind him ahead of an election next year. But as two more British soldiers died in Iraq and a hostage remained under threat of death, the prime minister’s hopes of drawing a line under two years that have wrecked his public trust ratings are far from secure. “The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons … has turned out to be wrong,” Blair told Labour’s annual conference, his nearest yet to a “mea culpa.”Full Story