British prime ministers don't leave office unless there's a war that's going badly, or they are ill.(The Week)(Brief article)

British prime ministers don't leave office unless there's a war that's going badly, or they are ill. It's the war in Iraq that has got Tony Blair. His new Labour party has a basic core of unreconstructed socialists, pacifist and anti-American in their bones. They have persuaded the country that Blair knowingly lied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in order to curry favor with Washington and demean himself accordingly. The background of an unpopular war has increased irritation with Blair's many mistakes, his pointless tampering with the constitution, the sleazy financing of his party, and the extravagances so flaunted by him and his wife. Unprecedented for a British ...