I have to say that my prayers and sympathies go to the people of Spain.
I agree, caving in to terrorists was never a good idea. That's why the marines died in Beirut, and the planes were hijacked, and the cruise ships, and the embassy bombings, and the night clubs in Germany and Bali, and the kidnappings of innocent people in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and South America and particularly Columbia. Oh, yeah and let's not forget Hitler and the appeasers of WWII, which is pretty much the same thing but turned out to be so much worse than anything else in the end.
But of course we know now, Bush chose to highlight intelligence reports that he was told were wrong by his head of intelligence, just to make a case for going to war on the basis of WMD stockpiles in the realm of thousands of tons, instead of actual and truthful reasons. Apparently, the Spanish people didn't like being made targets because of Aznar's alignment with Bush against 90% the people's wishes. I think it's fair that they retaliate against Aznar, like we should retalitiate against Dumbya for his lying and bad policies, which have made the majority of the world hate America, which invariably causes problems in the global "free trade" markets that are dependent on favorable climates, like that which Clinton was able to establish with just about everyone.
All that being said, the old policy of speak softly and carry a big stick would seem to be in order, particularly after Dumbya's piss everybody off, get in a fight with who ever, and then argue about it later policy. For a man whose policies depend on business and corporate prosperity, he has let the trade agreements of this country be abused by countries like China, who artificially fix the price of their currency and give unfair tax breaks to companies. What does Dumbya do? He let's 2.6 million jobs sail overseas.
posted by: Scully77 (reply)
post date: 03.17.04 (1:00 pm)
I too think it's just terrible what happened in Spain, the other day. Just awful!
You always seem to hit the nail on the head when you blog about how freakin' stupid Bush is! lol :-)
