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Zapatero sez Bush, Blair are liars
Spainâs new prime minister, the Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, yesterday followed his dramatic election triumph with a pledge to bring troops home from Iraq and accusations that Tony Blair and George Bush lied about the war. "Mr Blair and Mr Bush must do some reflection ... you canât organise a war with lies," he said in his first radio interview after ousting the ruling conservative Peopleâs party in a Sunday election dominated by the terror attacks on trains that killed 200 Madrid commuters last week. "The Spanish troops will come back," he added. His stinging comments caused political shockwaves across Europe and in the US. Sunday would go down in history as "the day when Islamist fundamentalism was seen as dictating the outcome of a European election," said Wilfried Martens, the head of the European Peopleâs party, an umbrella group for European conservative parties. Jonathan Eyal, the director of studies at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said if al-Qaeda were responsible for last weekâs bombs, Spain had become the first country "to have a prime minister owing his position to Bin Laden." Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-16 |
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