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To: John J H Kim who wrote (34604)	3/15/2004 1:23:56 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793838

I don't think that AQ was trying to deliberately influence the Spanish elections--they are mostly quite dense politically, witness the bombings and killings of Shiias in Iraq. However, it is obvious that to some degree there was some unwitting and unintended influence on the Spanish electorate, though I think the common wisdom that the bombings lead directly to Zapatero's election is not correct. The problem will be that AQ will learn from this experience. Perhaps it will sharpen its political skills. We'll see.

To: John J H Kim who wrote (34604)	3/15/2004 1:28:21 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Spain is a special case in that over 90% of its citizens opposed entering into the Iraq war. Normally when less than 10% of the citizenry is in favor of entering into a war, the powers that be do the sensible thing and stay out of the war. But nooooooooo, the prime minister completely disregarded the 90+% and threw in with us anyway. The M-11 attack simply reminded the voters that they didn't want to get involved in this to begin with. It didn't change anyone's mind about the war in Iraq, nobody in Spain supported it to begin with.