The question is not "Did the terrorists win?" but is, instead, "Did the government's ignoring the wish of the Spanish people not to invade Iraq (and did the government's attempted cover-up of who was responsible for the train bombings) lose?" Governmental arrogance and deception will always, eventually, be the downfall of governments, administrations and regimes.
But this "Spain bowing down to Al Queda" is typical of the right wing's perversion of truth. Zapatero has made it clear that his first priority in office will be to fight terrorism. The war in Iraq was opposed by 90% of Spaniards. The Spanish people were horrified by 3/11 and angered by their government's attempt to lay the blame on the Basque insurgent group ETA when it was clear that Al Qaeda was responsible. Spanish voters did not reward terror. They punished liars.
The newly elected leader in Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said it perfectly: The war in Iraq was "an error" based on "lies." Wars like the one in Iraq "only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate."
We are marking the one-year anniversary of this error based on lies. Anyone who believes that this war has made the world a safer place needs only to look at the recent bombings in Spain. All we have done is make it harder for us to fight these terrorist groups because we have committed most of our resources to a war in a country that was not a threat to us but, if anything, was a threat to Al Qaeda. (see my quote from Reagans Secretary of the Navy, In the Iraq thread)
Last edited by whomod; 2004-03-19 6:58 AM.
