LONDON, July 14 (Xinhuanet) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that he accepted the conclusions in Lord Butler's report in full and will take responsibility for any errors made onthe use of British intel ligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

    However, the Butler Report proved that "no one lied, no one made up the intelligence", the prime minister told the House of Commons an hour after the Butler Report on British intelligence on Iraqi WMD was issued.

    "I accept full personal responsibility for the way the issue was presented and therefore for any errors made," Blair said.

    "Any mistakes made should not be laid at the door of our intelligence and security community...They do a tremendous job forour country," he said.

    "For any mistakes made, as the report finds, in good faith I ofcourse take full responsibility, but I cannot honestly say I believe getting rid of Saddam was a mistake at all," he added.

    But the prime minister admitted that it was increasingly unlikely any banned weapons would be found.

    "I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy," Blair said.

    The Butler report concluded that part of the British intelligence on Iraqi WMD was "seriously flawed," but no evidence of "deliberate distortion or culpable negligence" has been found.

    Saddam "did not have significant, if any, stocks of chemical orbiological weapons in a state for deployment or developed plans for using them," said Lord Butler in his 196-page report.

    The report thus contradicted a central claim made by Blair during the run-up to the war with Iraq that Iraq possessed WMD and posed a "serious and current" threat to the West.

    However, Lord Butler said he would not blame the quality of theintelligence or how it was used in the government's case for war.

    There was "no deliberate attempt on the part of the government to mislead," the report said.

    "No single individual was to blame. This was a collective operation," the report said, referring to the failures referring to Iraqi WMD intelligence.

    But the report concluded that Blair's following statement to British lawmakers at the time when the dossier was published may have reinforced the impression that there was "firmer and fuller intelligence."

    The report also called for greater distance to be established between the British government and the intelligence services, citing that the informality of the procedures within Blair's government for forming policies on the risks posed by Iraq "reduced the scope for informed collective political judgment."

    The Butler inquiry was set up in February in the wake of the failure to find any banned weapons in Iraq, amid suggestions that the UK's prewar intelligence might have been wrong.

    In the US, the Senate's intelligence committee has condemned the CIA for wildly over-egging its tenuous evidence and even Blair himself admitted last week that those weapons may never be discovered. Enditem