So by stalling for 48 hours with the Blame the Basques strategy, the Partido Popular may sneak through in Sunday's election, and provide valuable time for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to cook up some spin about these attacks. Part of this will involve a simple cut-and-paste of their 9/11 rhetoric, with the 9 changed to a 3, but as Sullywatch notes, this puts them out of step with European practice, which is to put the date first. If the VRWC was watching CNN en Espanol like us, instead of getting their news nuggets from Fox News, they would know that the correct designation along date lines is 11-M.
But let's not them frame the issue as follows: the 200 deaths are a worthy sacrifice for a worthy war in Iraq, of which Spain was justified in being a part. No. Those 200 people died because the Iraq war was stupid. Remember how it was sold -- it was part of the War on Terror. Saddam was habouring terrorists. And even the subsequent insurgency generated a new rationale -- the flypaper theory. The insurgency would attract terrorists from around the world to fight against the overwhelming force of the US military in Iraq, saving the rest of the world from their activities. Anyone who tried to make opposing points -- that Iraq was a problem but not a terrorist problem, that the war in Iraq would distract from the pursuit of al Qaeda -- was shouted down as a traitor, or worse still, as a French-lover.
A few months ago, the rumour in Washington was that Dubya would seek to appoint the now retired Jose Maria Aznar to succeed Kofi Annan. 11-M shows that Aznar is a buffoon who liked to play global statesman one year ago in the Azores, and now 200 people from Madrid have paid the price for his neglect of real threats to Spain. Maybe putting him in Annan's position would be part of Dubya's brilliant plan to destroy the UN entirely.
Meanwhile, in the Irish satellite operation of the VRWC, the news of al Qaeda involvement came too late for the Sunday papers. Because the Sunday Independent, David "Simply British" Trimble, and the Republic's Justice Minister Michael McDowell, are all hooked on the ETA theory because it's a way to flog the IRA:
...the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, who is in Washington for the annual St Patrick's Day political gathering, called on Sinn Fein and the IRA to end its close links with ETA and other foreign terrorist groups.
Mr Trimble said: "It's not absolutely clear yet who perpetrated these terrible deeds in Spain but ETA is still the prime suspect for it. I say to Mr Adams and Sinn Fein that they must end all links with ETA and terminate the party's globe-trotting around the world to fraternise with similar revolutionary elements."
....Meanwhile, the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell has stepped up his attack on Sinn Fein/IRA.
He said: "Let me say clearly that republicanism does not speak in muffled voice through a balaclava...No true Republican movement in modern Ireland would make common cause with the narco-terrorists of the Communist FARC in Colombia; or with the repressive Castro regime of Cuba; or with the murderous zealots of ETA."
But let's not them frame the issue as follows: the 200 deaths are a worthy sacrifice for a worthy war in Iraq, of which Spain was justified in being a part. No. Those 200 people died because the Iraq war was stupid. Remember how it was sold -- it was part of the War on Terror. Saddam was habouring terrorists. And even the subsequent insurgency generated a new rationale -- the flypaper theory. The insurgency would attract terrorists from around the world to fight against the overwhelming force of the US military in Iraq, saving the rest of the world from their activities. Anyone who tried to make opposing points -- that Iraq was a problem but not a terrorist problem, that the war in Iraq would distract from the pursuit of al Qaeda -- was shouted down as a traitor, or worse still, as a French-lover.
A few months ago, the rumour in Washington was that Dubya would seek to appoint the now retired Jose Maria Aznar to succeed Kofi Annan. 11-M shows that Aznar is a buffoon who liked to play global statesman one year ago in the Azores, and now 200 people from Madrid have paid the price for his neglect of real threats to Spain. Maybe putting him in Annan's position would be part of Dubya's brilliant plan to destroy the UN entirely.
Meanwhile, in the Irish satellite operation of the VRWC, the news of al Qaeda involvement came too late for the Sunday papers. Because the Sunday Independent, David "Simply British" Trimble, and the Republic's Justice Minister Michael McDowell, are all hooked on the ETA theory because it's a way to flog the IRA:
...the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, who is in Washington for the annual St Patrick's Day political gathering, called on Sinn Fein and the IRA to end its close links with ETA and other foreign terrorist groups.
Mr Trimble said: "It's not absolutely clear yet who perpetrated these terrible deeds in Spain but ETA is still the prime suspect for it. I say to Mr Adams and Sinn Fein that they must end all links with ETA and terminate the party's globe-trotting around the world to fraternise with similar revolutionary elements."
....Meanwhile, the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell has stepped up his attack on Sinn Fein/IRA.
He said: "Let me say clearly that republicanism does not speak in muffled voice through a balaclava...No true Republican movement in modern Ireland would make common cause with the narco-terrorists of the Communist FARC in Colombia; or with the repressive Castro regime of Cuba; or with the murderous zealots of ETA."
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