Another bitter person disappointed with the election outcome.

Freedom of speech is a great thing...it allows people to show their ignorance.

IIRC, the bulk of the Spanish populace was against going into the war before they went and stayed that way. The terror-train attacks cemented that and they voted the President out, the new party pulled the troops out.

Anyone who believes we (the civilized western world) can negotiate with multiple fractured terrorist groups is smoking some good stuff. We can only deal with them by addressing the root problems (ignorance, poverty, extreme indoctrination, etc) and terminating the current architects.

The incumbent party in power in Spain in the run-up to the election enjoyed anywhere from a 5 to 10 point lead in the polls. The electorate got mad, because the Spanish Prime Minister wrongly tried to spin the bombing as being the product of ETA radicals, not as the work of al-Qaeda. Once word got out that the PM had lied, faith in the government over that weekend went to hell and they got the boot.

Zapatero had little, if any, real hope of gaining the PM post if not for the government's ineptitude and false statements. They only served to enrage an already-skittish population.

Regardless, Muslim islamofascism showed its true colors in the failed plot to bomb the National Court. Bin Laden's statements to the contrary.

K