With victory seemingly assured in Afghanistan, the United States administration turned its attention to Iraq, with an increasing focus on regime change. In the United Kingdom, Tony Blair sought to moderate Washington’s ambitions but over-estimated his own influence, and eventually came to support President Bush’s desire to unseat Saddam Hussein despite considerable opposition within his own party and the wider society. As war approached, the newly designated Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was outspokenly critical of the rush to war, and on this occasion most of the bishops and much of the church shared these reservations. For Williams ‘weakness and moral inconsistency led us to this war’, and the editor of the leading church newspaper quite bluntly describe it as ‘an unjust war’. There seem to have been plenty of church engagement with ministers, civil servants, and parliamentary bodies, and the church was able to raise its concerns and perhaps influence debate, but not surprisingly could not change the mind of a prime minister set on this course.