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Old 10-21-2004, 04:54 PM   #15
Yelof
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Living in Portugal I get to meet a lot of Spaniards some of which have told me that the vote against Aznar was because 1)the government tried the spin the attack as being the work of ETA when evidence was already leaking out that Al Quada was behind it 2)Spain had been brought into a war 90% of the population was against, that was why Aznar was suppressing the Al Quada connection 3) Aznar was an asshole.
There was no pacification strategy by the Spanish people.
Spain did not then announced that it would withdraw from Iraq, this was always the Socialist party platform.
What would you have the Spanish people do, vote for the party that was bare-faced lying to them, that had dragged them into a war against popular opinion, that war that had now cast Madrid to the front line. I think the Spanish made the right choice..btw the Spanish have increased their troops in Afghanistan from 130 to 1000, meanwhile Portugal has 100 Armed Police apparently confined to barracks in Iraq the right wing government apparently shitting itself if one of them should get hurt.

I digress-hope the Republican party split, and the Dems too, perhaps if you had 4 parties in the US you would start to see what real democrary is like.

Viva Kerry! Champion of the Reality Based Comunity
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