Wham! Blair bungles Iraq speech

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He received the kind of polite applause regimental sergeant-majors lay on for visiting politicians, but nothing like the hooting and hollering President George W. Bush was given by his cheerleaders when he made a similar "surprise" visit.

At least Mr Blair did not wear made-up combat gear.

Mr Blair's curiously downbeat address to the troops contained a slip instantly highlighted by the British media, when he referred to the search for Iraq's weapons of mass "distraction".

He quickly corrected himself, but not before the media noted that one of Mr Blair's domestic political problems is that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.

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