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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (552486)	3/16/2004 12:53:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Tell it to Secretary Powell.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (552486)	3/16/2004 1:12:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"...It's not fear that has dominated in Madrid since Thursday, however. It's a resolve to face down terrorism and a rising anger at those responsible." "This country is very resilient," says Charles Powell, senior political analyst at Royal Elcano Institute, a Spanish think tank. "They have lived with Basque terrorism for years. And they know the value of turning out in large numbers to defy terrorism." "...As the specter of al-Qaeda's involvement emerged, it mattered to those still furious at their government's decision to back the war in Iraq. "The bombs you have thrown on Iraq have exploded in our trains," shouted some of the thousands of people who turned up on the doorstep of the ruling party's headquarters on Saturday. By Sunday night, when most of the votes in that day's election had been tallied, it was clear that the same anger had been expressed at the country's polling stations." "When most of the votes in that day's national election had been tallied, the conservative Popular Party of outgoing Prime Minister and staunch U.S. ally Jose Maria Aznar had been ousted by the Socialist Workers' Party, led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Less than a week before the massacre, opinion polls were unanimous in predicting Aznar's hand-picked successor, Mariano Rajoy, would be the country's next leader." "THE SOUND OF FURY. As night fell on the eve of elections, Madrid erupted once again into a deafening outburst of rage. First, quietly on one balcony and street corner, then in ever greater numbers and spreading around the neighborhoods, Madrileños began making noise. They banged spoons on casseroles. They slammed frying pans together. They rapped their knuckles against trash cans in the street." "We're going to make them pay for what they have done to us," 40-year-old Phares Rodero said, standing next to a man who slapped empty beer cans together. "We never wanted any war, and now the war has come to us." The wounded city banged out its fury into the morning hours of election day, as helicopters spun their blades in the black sky. Von Reppert-Bismarck writes for BusinessWeek from Madrid Edited by Douglas Harbrecht businessweek.com