This story is number two in the blogdex chart of most contagious web pages at the moment, beating Michael Jackson into third place and beaten only by a joke from the toque

I must admit I'm not that shocked as I have always thought the American government was really only making a minimal effort to pretend the war was justified on moral grounds, let alone legal.

I'm more shocked by the extent to which the British public seems to be going along with the pro-war arguments at the moment. I was seriously depressed watching Question Time last night and had to turn it off in the end. The misrepresentation of anti-war views, the squashing of people trying to express them and the extreme rudeness to Vanessa Redgrave really got to me.

For the record, I'm pro-American, anti-Saddam, anti-terrorism and have no problem with Bush coming to visit. But I think it was wrong to go to war in the way they did. This combination of ideas doesn't seem to be permitted at the moment, except in those terrible North London circles I move in....