Yes,I believe it; But Tony Blair was guilty of grave miscalculations, says Andrew Gilligan, the controversial former BBC journalist whose WMD report triggered the calamitous Kelly affair. Read his devastating analysis in this, the first of two dispatches IRAQ 1 YEAR ON.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: March 19, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: ANDREW GILLIGAN

TONIGHT, exactly a year ago, was the night that people all over the world went to bed, but couldn't get to sleep. The politicians had voted. The UN inspectors had left. The invasion force, or at least the American part of it, was ready.

As the sands ran out on the final deadline of the final US ultimatum, I was lying on my "executive mattress" at the Palestine Hotel, Baghdad, biting my nails and wondering if I was going to die. I wasn'...

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