It's interesting that Tony Blair should say this about having blood on their hands. I was just finishing David Horowitz's book - Beating the Democrats - last night, and that was what he said too. That the lefties and himself (in his younger days) had blood on their hands for helping prolong the Viet Nam war. They gave our enemies hope and so made the war stretch out several more year. In addition, since communists were not stopped, millions of Cambodian peasants were exterminated by Pol Pot, millions more Vietnamese were imprisoned or killed... Thanks to the lefties. I have to add that the weak-spined US administration also played a part.
If Saddam was facing a united international community, meaning the French, Germans and Russians were all saying that he should go too - it is that much more likely Saddam would depart to save his skin, rather than have any hope to cling onto power.
Therefore, every soldier that dies in removing this evil man, we can partially blame on the French, Germans, Russians and the peaceniks. Every bomb that falls, every single casualty. Because by giving hope to Saddam, they killed hopes for this to be done peacefully.
Regards, Ivan