The Spanish have made an excellent decision and must be commended... at least the new Spanish premier is no licker of Bush's blood and oil drenched boots... Spain, by its actions, will be readily accepted back into the Civilized World... and those brainwashed imperialistic imbecilic footsoldiers, who are dying in Bush's pursuit of oil control, will no longer have any Spanish soldiers protecting them from the Iraqi freedom fighters...
Who's side are you on, anyway? I mean, are you just talking out of your ass? You mean young American guys putting their life on the line everyday? Show some compassion, bro. If you want to see a face to the name for each fallen "brainwashed" soldier so far, go check out this site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/casualties/facesofthefallen.htm I'm not sure where you live or if you have any friends currently serving over there, but to sit behind your computer and type up the shit you just did reeks of ignorance.
Aphie, I am on the side of the majority of the world, the Civilized World... those who support this exercise in mass murder are unfortunate and need help... Candle
For every face of a murderous imbecile, there exists countless Iraqi victims (both freedom fighters and those who were caught in the cross-fire during operations to defend Iraq from the occupiers) of this illegal and immoral war for "WMDs" [gimme a break, rofl!!]... Go and read some Noam Chomsky, wake up, and smell the coffee!
Just recently Spanish authorities were called to a cemetary by the nightwatchman who was alarmed to see a fire in the middle of the cemetary. When they arrived they discovered the tomb of a special forces commando who had taken part in the Leganes offensive had been desecrated. It had been pried open, the body removed, dragged some 200 meters. Then covered with gasoline and set on fire. The Spanish authorities have up to now had absolutely no idea the kind of depraved, extremists they harbour inside their own country. Unfortunately, they are starting to find out. What kind of animal does that to a human remain? If I were the Spanish prime minister I would quadruple my largely inactive professional army's presence in Iraq and triple it in Afghanistan. Also, I would declare a 'fatwa' to the Muslim community: You either turn over the extremist elements inside your community, or if any of you so much as sneeze in a way which displeases me, you will be on a one way plane ride to North Africa, back where you came from. And then I would call my buddy W and ask that they send 25 ICBMs into the heart of Tehran (to send a message to the Mullah's that we know they are behind Sadr and that 25 similar presents would follow each month until they stopped meddling in Iraq). Then as Spanish PM, I would go out for a cafe con leche and call it a day.
While the populations of every single civilized country in the world - apart from the gullible and uninformed USA who like in good totalitarian societies love blindly following their deceitful leaders into incredibly counter productive wars without any questions asked -, have always disbelieved Bushs reasons for the Iraq war, more and more governments are finally falling in with what their populations are demanding. Gotta respect these countries that are finally turning on one of the most corrupt, undemocratic and deceitful regimes ever, that of our Coward-In-Chief George Bush, who has done nothing but grow international terrorism with his Iraq war that was based on nothing but counterproductive lies and deceit, and that was nothing but a little favor for his oil buddies. Dead and mutilated US soldiers and dead and mutilated Iraqis? Heck our Coward-In-Chief, who never even grazed a knee in defense of his country, doesn't care about that, no more than he ever cared about fighting terror, as long as he could do his oil buddies a lil favor: TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 19 (Reuters) - In a blow to President George W. Bush and his coalition partners in Iraq, Honduras on Monday followed Spain in announcing it will pull its troops out of the country. "I have told the coalition countries that the troops are going to return from Iraq," Maduro said in a speech on national television and radio. "I have ordered... the carrying out of the decision taken in the shortest possible time and under safe conditions for our troops." Soldiers from Honduras, a strong US. ally in Central America, were sent to Iraq last summer as peacekeepers only and have been clearing mines and providing medical care in central Iraq.
Count so far says: Spain, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Norway who are on their way out of Iraq, out of Bushs deceitful and evil little favor in Iraq for his oil buddies, that has as a side effect provided Al Qaeda with a massive and free recruiting drive.
Spain's most grievous error was not in pulling out, it was in allowing the attacks to sway an election. It was the panic-driven change in electoral opinion that lead to a new government to decide to pull out in the first place. Terrorism's goal is not to sway governments, it is to frighten the population to the point of mandating the change in government policies that are to the given terror organization's advantage. Do not blame the socialist politicians in Spain. They are what they are and everyone knew who/what they were for a long time. Blame the roughly 10% of Spain's voting public that allowed al-Qaida to change their minds for them. Viva El Chamberlain.
The current Spanish govt had been saying since way before Bush launched his unprecedented war of aggression that Iraq did not pose a threat to anyone, that Al Qaeda, not Saddam, were behind 9-11, and that Saddam had no ties to Al qaeda, and that therefore there was absolutely no justification in withdrawing limited resources from going after Al Qaeda and international terror, and attacking Iraq instead just because Bushs admin is the most deceitful, evil and corrupt the USA has ever had to suffer from, and Bushs buddies saw a good chance to go steal some oil. Spain is only saying that instead of promoting terror like Bush did with his war they want instead to effectively combat terror, something Bush obviously has no interest in doing. I have the fullest respect for those countries that unlike Bush believe in democracy, civil liberties, judicial due revue and actually effectively combatting international terror as opposed to promoting it like Bush has done and will continue as long as he gets a chance to wreak havoc, death and mutilation. As long as Bush is in office the USA does not stand a chance in a million of building a coalition to stabilize a situation in Iraq that for the world at large reeks of nothing but an illegal occupation to steal Iraqs oil from the Iraqis. Spain, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Norway, and probably Poland soon, who's President has already complained that he was "taken for a ride by Bush", we have the fullest respect for your actions.