[jaguar]

In terms of the Spanish election, lets put things in perspective here.
Aznar was deeply unpopular well before this, the war on Iraq was unpopular with 90% of the population and like every other leader on the front page of the economist, guilty of lying to his country to get involved.

The spanish people voted with their conscience, they voted to remove a leader who did not represent their wishes, who was at odds with popular opinion well before the attacks.

There is more than a tad of irony, Kitsune, in first saying that guns-blazing diplomacy is a bad idea and then saying Spain did the wrong thing by rejecting it.