That man Straw

Via Andrew Sullivan I came to read Jay Nordlinger's summary of Jack Straw's performance at Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in the village of Davos, Switzerland.

It seems that the UK foreign secretary put up quite a commanding defence of the Iraq business.

Another questioner alleges that Britain et al. are "cooking the books" in Iraq — placing their thumbs heavily on any electoral scale. Straw himself describes this as a charge of "a stitch-up job," then knocks it down, in no uncertain terms. He again avows his special love of democracy: "I have been democratically elected to public office. Who else in this room can say the same? Let me see hands, please. One? Fine. But I don't care to take lectures on democracy and democratic legitimacy.