Notes
1 When Tony Blair was asked by the first Chilcott Inquiry to justify his expression of ‘no regrets’ over the decision to invade Iraq his post hoc appeal was to the legitimacy of a ‘just war’, self-evidently encapsulated by – or such was his assumption – the proper name ‘democracy’. According to Blair's contention, in toppling Saddam, ‘the certainty of suppression’ had been supplanted by the ‘uncertainty of democratic politics’ (Wintour and NortonTaylor: 2010).