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Premier 'A Zombie Taught by the CIA'
He also claimed Mr Blair’s failure to back Muslim causes had increased the likelihood of terrorism at home.
Sir Rodric – who as a former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee was Britain’s top spy – said: "He should no longer stand upon the order of his going, but go. At once."
He added: "He has manipulated public opinion, sent our soldiers into distant lands for ill-conceived purposes, misused the intelligence agencies to serve his ends, and reduced the Foreign Office to a demoralised cipher because it keeps reminding him of inconvenient facts."
The bitter outburst in a newspaper article was matched by a similar attack by Britain’s outgoing ambassador in Baghdad who warned that Iraq was sliding into civil war as a result of Britain and America’s failed invasion.
In a leaked confidential memo to ministers, William Patey also predicted the break-up of Iraq along ethnic lines. Mr Patey wrote: "The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy."
He went on: "Even the lowered expectation of President Bush for Iraq – a government that can sustain itself, defend itself and govern itself and is an ally in the war on terror – must remain in doubt."
The assessment was contained in Mr Patey’s final dispatch from Baghdad before he left the Iraqi capital last week. It adds that Iraq will remain "messy and difficult" for the next five to 10 years.