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Ali
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onedomino said:This is some of the most insipid and hateful material I have ever read. Moreover, the assertions in your post are categorically false. The 311 attacks were designed to change the Spanish government. They succeeded. The 311 murderers knew that if they could get the Socialists to win, then the Spanish would cut and run from Iraq. When they fled from Iraq, the Spanish people demonstrated that they feared terrorists more than their loss of their honor. In disgrace, they joined the cynical French who were more interested in continuing their illegal businesses with the despicable Iraqi dictator than they were in claiming an honorable place in history. The only thing larger than French avarice in Iraq is their abject moral, political, and military, irrelevance.
Goebbels would be proud of propaganda like that.
But at least he could spell.
The Cold War is over, buddy. You don't have to spout emotional anti-socialist rhetoric any more.
Spain's President Aznar went to war against the wishes of the Spanish People
George Bush pays Rupert Murdoch to make you believe that Spain capitulated to the terrorists, when in fact they were just doing what they wanted to do in the first place, ie get the hell out of the mess you've gotten them into.The new Spanish prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, was very careful in his choice of words. "Military intervention in Iraq was a political mistake," he said on March 15. "It divided more than it united; there were no reasons for it. Time has shown that the arguments for it lacked credibility . . . Blair and Bush must do some reflection . . . you can't organize a war with lies. The Spanish troops will come back [from Iraq]."
Zapatero made exactly the same argument a year ago, when the United States was about to invade Iraq and then-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar was cheering it on. Over 80 percent of the Spanish people agreed with Zapatero about Iraq then, and they still do today. He did not say a single word about appeasing terrorism, and nor does anyone else in Spain want to do that after a terrorist attack that killed over 200 commuters in Madrid. They are just sick of being lied to, and they don't believe that Iraq had anything to do with terrorism.
The reaction in the United States, however, has been distinctly ungenerous. "The plain fact is that the Spanish electorate displayed craven cowardice by electing the Socialists. It embraced the wrong-headed notion -- so dismayingly popular in Europe -- that to adopt any policy more resolute than abject appeasement of terrorists is to invite terrorist attacks," wrote the New York Post
Please don't think I was not shocked and horrified by what happened on 9/11 or by the Madrid bombings, or by Darfour, or Rwanda, or Zimbabwe or Belfast, or Palestine. All acts of violence horrify and disgust me, whether it is the flying of civillian aircraft into office blocks or the bombing of cities from 20,000 feet, it is just the same to me and it has to STOP.