Iraq: Blair blames 'outsiders'

Tony Blar was talking to David Frost on Al Jazeera [English] TV about the Middle East - and how someone had a strategy in Iraq but it wasn't him.

"What I say to people is .... why it is difficult in Iraq, it's not difficult because of some accident in planning [huh?], it's difficult because there is a deliberate strategy** - Al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents on the one hand, Iranian backed elements with Shia militia on the other, to create a situation in which the will of the majority of Iraqis, which is for peace, is displaced by the will of the minority for war.

[i'ts] "driven by outside elements which are the same outside elements fuelling extremism everywhere".

**They had a strategy - boo hoo!