Blair admits Iraq insurgency worse than anticipated
Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that the insurgency in Iraq was more ferocious than he had anticipated, but insisted British troops would remain until the job of nation building was done. “I didn’t expect quite the same sort of ferocity from every single element in the Middle East that came in and was doing their best to disrupt the political process,” Blair said Sunday when asked by BBC television if he had expected the task to be so difficult. Full Story