"Yes we, were wrong", says Blair

Recently, British PM has been reported admitting that the primary reason for going to war with the US and Australia in Iraq, to achieve Regime Change, was a lie. It was false intelligence information and gave a false impression of the nature of the threat, but gave an optimum reason to go to war. It seems to me that an apology is in order to all those people, like myself who were certain, before the War Started that Saddam Hussein and his Government had no weapons of mass destruction. Yes, they certainly wanted to build such things, but no, they did not have the opportunity or capability due to the sanctions imposed by the US and UK. These sanctions were extremely tight, knocking anything out that "might" be a threat, along with such military things as anti-aircraft radars, and fuel dumps at air bases, not to mention the aircraft themselves. How the political establishment was able to accept the Iraqi oppositions claims od WMD's without verification is beyond understanding, considering the main protagonists are huge governments with major military and security establishments. What were they thinking? There are two possibilities: 1. There was a false claim from the IRaqi opposition at the time. 2. The US neo-cons were determined to remoce Saddam Hussein and the Baathist Fascists before 911, and used that tragic event as the impetus for the uS Government under GWB to move resolutely in that direction without consideration for the consequences. Britain, my birth nation, just followed along with them as an ally of the first order and Australia as the deputy dog. The consequeces are clear, terrorism has increased with the fundamentalist islamists gaining converts through out the Islamic World, thanks to the US and its Allies invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.