He (UK Prime Minister Tony Blair) said they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath and that in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating and on both those points he has been proved conclusively right and it would be entirely ungracious, even for his critics, not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister.
Andrew Marr, BBC Political Editor during at start of the Iraq war in 2003
The Academy of Ideas weighs in with another of their thoughtful pieces, this time on the vexed question of the mainstream media
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