Spanish electorate says “No” to pro-war leaders
Sunday, March 14th, 2004The opposition Socialist Party has declared victory in Spanish elections, defeating the incumbent Popular Party. This is a rebuke to one of the few governments who allied themselves with the Bush administration’s illegal, immoral, imperialist, and unnecessary war against Iraq. It is widely believed that Spain’s alliance with the U.S. has made Spaniards the targets of Islamic terrorism, and that the Madrid bomb attacks that killed 200 people are the first in a series of such attacks.
The Spanish government should not be surprised, since a majority of Spaniards were loudly opposed to the war, and were ignored. Sic semper tyrannis. Let’s hope Tony Blair and George W. Bush follow their allies into the dustbin of history.
