The suspicion that Mr Blair misled voters over Iraq has become an accusation of bad faith that has been impossible to shake off. By now a common nickname for the prime minister was "Bliar".

在伊拉克事情上，怀疑布莱尔先生误导了选民已被人们谴责为没有信用，一直都不可能被摆脱。

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The upshot is that if voters were misled, it was because of genuine mistakes by the intelligence services, rather than by deliberate government exaggerations.

ECONOMIST: Politics