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To: Amy J who wrote (193915)	7/10/2004 2:34:18 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575535

Tenchusatsu, RE: "terrorists who supposely want Bush to win this November." A terrorist attack would create a higher probability for Bush to win. USA is opposite of Spain in this regards. I agree........and I suspect OBL knows it. ted

To: Amy J who wrote (193915)	7/10/2004 3:26:43 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

USA is opposite of Spain in this regards. It's really not that simple. 1) 85% of the Spaniards didn't want to join the Iraq coalition. And they knew that Iraq had nothing to do with WOT. They haven't bought in the Bush/Aznar war propaganda. Do you really think Bush would have gone to war with only 15% approval of the US population? 2) The government tried to manipulate public opinion and - without any proof- to blame the ETA. 3) Right after the attacks, the opposition immediately offered a delay of the vote. Aznar refused, speculating on getting away with manipulation of the press and the public opinion. The "lead your people to a war by manipulation and propaganda and then denounce all critique as unpatriotic and count on blind support" didn't work in Spain. BTW, Spain has more experience with terror and suffered much more terroristic blackmails than you might imagine. Spain never surrendered. And they know that the ETA terror grew out of an aggressive suppression of a cultural minority by applying military force, torture etc.