Mr Blair made one slip when he referred to weapons of “mass distraction”. He quickly corrected himself but the damage was done. Paul Bremer, the US head of the Co-alition Provisional Authority, has already dismissed the lack of WMD finds as a “red herring”, and Mr Blair would clearly prefer it if the whole issue went away.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=478180
So at last we get the truth out of Bliar.