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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (7357)	3/15/2004 9:08:32 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

The Spaniards are civilized folks. They have a sense of pride and they expect their leaders to reflect that. Or else they vote them out. The Spanish Apology The results of Sunday's election in Spain, in which the pro-American Popular party was voted out of office in an upset by a Socialist party profoundly at odds with American policy in Iraq and elsewhere, doesn't leave much room for interpretation. Economics wasn't the issue. Job creation and education weren't topics of widespread debate. The war in Iraq, which the conservative Aznar government strongly supported, despite the overwhelming opposition of most Spaniards, had largely evaporated as a factor in the polls before the voting. Not even the horrible terror attacks of Thursday did much to change voters' minds. ...contd. at nationalreview.com