Why the shock? Is it not a disaster? Does anyone out there think it’s not?

(CNN) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair provoked a storm Saturday after apparently admitting that the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain was “a disaster.”

Blair gave the surprise assessment of his decision to go to war in an interview with David Frost on Al-Jazeera’s new English-language channel.

British opposition MPs seized on the comment as evidence that Blair has finally accepted that his strategy in the Middle Eastern state had failed.

British newspapers carried the story on their front pages Saturday

“Iraq invasion a disaster, Blair admits on Arab TV,” was the headline in the Daily Telegraph.

“PM Tony Blair last night sensationally admitted the Iraq War fallout has become ‘disastrous,’ reported Britain’s biggest selling daily, The Sun.

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