The Pain In Spain

The pundits are at it again, calling the recent election results in Spain and the new government's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq a win for terror, Al Quaeda's electoral victory and appeasement of terrorist.

I guess if you still buy into the myth that Iraq was somehow linked with 9/11 and Al Quaeda, which has been often stated by the administration with significant success, the yes, you might view the Spaniards repudiation of the war in Iraq as a sell out. The thing is, there was no connection between Iraq an Al Quaeda before the war. Heck, even Fox will say so. Sadam's secular regime in Iraq was as anathema to Osama and his philosophy as us infidels in the west. Is Al Quaeda active in Iraq now? Quite possibly so, which may suggest an answer to the question as to whether we're safer now than we were before the war...

The way I see it, the Spanish voters used their ballots to tell the Popular Party to shove it. The outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar supported the war in Iraq against the overwhelming opposition of the Spanish population -- 90% of Spaniards were against the war last spring. For political reasons, the ruling party also tried to cover up links to Islamist terrorists in the 3/11 bombings, which then severely back-fired.

I guess the idea of citizens voting a government out of office for misleading them about terrorism and waging an unpopular war might be a scary and ominous thing to some people.