EU VOICES SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO REBUILD IRAQ

There's talk but no action, so far, but the EU's coming around, maybe:

"Europe has been split down the middle, but people are now willing to put the divisions of the past behind them", UK foreign secretary Jack Straw said, referring to last week's Franco-British row over the EU's 2007-2013 financial plan.

His comments echoed earlier remarks from the Irish, US and eastern European delegations that the talks were marked by a forward-looking spirit on all sides, with French, Iranian and Syrian diplomats declining to revisit former jibes at the US and UK's intervention in the region.

"We are now in a different phase", a western European diplomatic contact noted. "And that's - stuff it! We didn't like what you did but now we'll have to get together and help, to work for a good cause".

Gee, maybe there's even a chance the Democrats will stop trying to undermine coalition efforts in Iraq. Sorry, I lost my mind there for a second, it ain't gonna happen.