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Spain’s Socialists Claim Victory

My Way News [1](AP) says:

“MADRID, Spain (AP) – Voters ousted Spain’s ruling party in elections Sunday, with many saying they were shaken by bombings in Madrid and furious with the government for backing the Iraq war and making their country a target for al-Qaida.”

Idiots.

UPDATE: 0315040916— The Captain puts it very well indeed: [2]
“It’s not too far off the mark to recall the action of the Belgians in the spring of 1940, who pulled their army out of the line of defense when they capitulated without warning their British and French allies, dealing a mortal blow to any hope of stopping the Nazi onslaught. I understand that they just took a severe blow, but when a strong nation is attacked on its own soil, especially by a numerically inferior enemy, it doesn’t close up shop and sue for peace! Any nation that reacts in that craven manner deserves to remain isolated and left to slowly decay on its own.

The worst part is that the Spanish Socialists have guaranteed — guaranteed — that the British, the Poles, the Australians, and the Americans will all be attacked near their next general elections. They have validated everything that the Islamofascists have said about the Western democracies; one good blow and they’ll run home. They will use that strategy as a blueprint and the timing will be the same every time. I don’t think it will work here, as 9/11 stripped our illusions of “working for peace” with Islamofascists, hopefully forever, and a new attack would tend to reinforce what Bush has been saying all along, and make a liar out of John Kerry, who’s repeatedly claimed that the terrorist threat is “exaggerated”. But it may work elsewhere, and al-Qaeda may well drive wedges between Western allies.

Way to go, Spaniards.”

Personally, I’m still a little concerned over those two Indians involved with the Spanish attack; it’s not consistant with the usual Islamofacists. Makes one wonder who would be behind it all.  Along that line, the people who won the election had so much to gain from such an attack; Might the socialists be behind this attack, I wonder?

UPDATE2: Victor Hanson has a great one today on this point [3]

Another Update: Greatest Jeneration has a really fine take on this [4].