Tony Blair won a historic third term as prime minister Thursday, but his Labour Party suffered a sharply reduced parliamentary majority in punishment for going to war in Iraq. The Associated Press quoted a chastened Blair as saying "we will have to respond to that sensibly and wisely and responsibly." With 614 of the 646 House of Commons seats counted, official results showed 352 seats won by Labour, enough to form a government, 191 went to the Conservatives, 59 went to the Liberal Democrats - the only major party to oppose the Iraq war - and 12 to other smaller parties. "I think we can be really proud of what we've achieved," Blair told supporters in London on Friday. "We've got a mandate to govern this country again," he added.
