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To: Neeka who wrote (250051)	5/15/2008 4:50:23 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793801

"what goes around comes around" I was thinking about this earlier regarding the wimp issue now confronting Obama. The "wimp factor" was originally an off the cuff comment by a Bush41 pollster. Newsweek latched onto it and made it into a cover story in 1987. Of course the concept took on a cultural significance as did "Watergate" and both have since been endlessly recycled. * * *

To: Neeka who wrote (250051)	5/15/2008 5:40:24 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793801

We all know how Spain wimped out after the Madrid bombings and I thought an update on Spain would be interesting. Bombing kills policeman in Spain; separatists blamed May 14, 2008 usatoday.com MADRID, Spain (AP) — A powerful car bomb detonated Wednesday outside a police station in northern Spain, killing one officer and wounding four others in an attack blamed on the militant Basque separatist group ETA, police said. A van packed with explosives exploded before dawn outside a Civil Guard station that also houses officers and their families in Legutiano, a small town near the Basque capital, Vitoria. The last fatal attack by ETA was the shooting of a former town councilor in the Basque town of Mondragon on March 7, two days before Spain's general election. ETA usually phones in warnings before it strikes but this time it did not, and the bomb was large, an official with the Basque regional interior ministry said. She spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department rules. Two officers were trapped inside the building, and one of them died, the official said. Three other officers were also wounded but their lives are not believed to be in danger, she said. ETA has staged more than 20 attacks since ending a cease-fire in December 2006, after peace talks with the government failed to yield concessions for the separatist group. The death toll stands at six, including Wednesday's fatality. The resurgent ETA is one of the biggest challenges facing Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who won a second term in the March election. Zapatero's government negotiated with ETA after the group declared what it called a permanent cease-fire in March 2006. But ETA grew frustrated with a lack of concessions toward its goal of an independent Basque homeland, and in December 2006 it set off a huge car bomb at a parking garage at the Madrid airport, killing two people. It insisted then that the deaths were unintended and that the truce still held, but formally called it off about six months later. ETA has killed more than 820 people since launching its campaign of bombings and shootings in the late 1960s. * * *