British Prime Minister, who is seeking re-election on May 5, Thursday acknowledged the strength of opposition to the Iraq war among his own supporters. In an interview with the Independent newspaper published Thursday Blair said there were many Labour voters who "strongly disagree with Iraq". "There are people in my own party, there are candidates for my own party, who disagreed with Iraq. There will be some people who will vote for other parties who agreed with me about Iraq." Blair said it would be "absurd" for him, if Labour was re-elected, to interpret the vote as a vindication of his decision to go to war. Blair said taking the country to war had been a "difficult decision". "It was a nightmare in the sense that, whatever you did, you were going to get problems either in sorting out Iraq after a conflict or you would get big problems leaving Saddam in charge." In a BBC television interview late Wednesday, Blair said the removal of Saddam Hussein was the main reason for the war. He did not once mention the issue of weapons of mass destruction, which at the time was cited as the main reason for the "direct threat to Britain" from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
