Original sentence: Accusations that Blair has deliberately deceived people are frequently made in respect of the period before the Iraq war: although successive inquiries have cleared Blair of misleading the public about the intelligence he received before the war, those who opposed the war generally believe the reasons given to the public for this policy were not the real reasons for his actions
Edited sentence: Accusations that Blair has deliberately deceived people are frequently made in respect of the period before the war.He has been cleared of misleading the public about the reasons to go to war, although everyone agrees that everything he said to justify the war were just lies