It's true enough, Carol that the leaders of eight countries have put their names to a letter saying that on the whole they are on the Bush side. The Uniteed Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Denmark from inside the EU, and Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Of course, that's leaders. (Including that most peculiar and dodgy of leaders Berlusconi.) How far they carry their people with them is another matter, but what the hell, what matters is a name on a bit of paper.