Bush's Iraq War has brought about yet another regime change, this one is Spain. With 99% of the votes reported, the Spanish social-democrats (PSOE) have defeated the ruling conservative Partido Popular (PP), winning at the latest count 164 paliamentary seats to the PP's 148, giving them the responsibility to form a new government.
A majority of Spanish voters rejected the ruling party that backed Bush and that pitiful Tony Blair in the Iraq War, and gave that war a higher priority than protecting their own country against real terrorist threats.
Spanish voters have some attitudes that must appear strange to many Americans. Especially those who think the fantasy world they see on Fox News resembles reality.
Spanish voters seem to think the ruling party shouldn't be playing cynical politics with an horrific terrorist attack. They think that it's wrong to send their country's soldiers off to kill and die in a war based on lies. They think their government should be forthcoming about what happened in a massive terrorist attack that represents a national tragedy.
And their press actually challenges government officials when the reporters know that they are lying in their faces. And all this two days after the worst terrorist attack in the country's history!
Viva la democracia!
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I'm inspired! I guess it was painfully demonstrated to them that this war has not made them safer and their government's policies has made them a target. From what I read, the Conservatives only had a small lead in the polls before the attack.
It is an inspiring moment. The conservative party had a lead. They also were having the election with an economy that's prosperous relative to other European Union countries right now. And Jose Maria Aznar, the outgoing conservative president, was possibly the most widely respected conservative leader in Europe. Until he supported the Iraq War, at least. The war has been very unpopular in Spain, more so than in Germany or France. - Bruce
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