March 18, 2004
ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT HE CAN'T AFFORD:
Spain's Next Prime Minister Says U.S. Should Dump Bush (Keith B. Richburg, March 18, 2004, Washington Post)
Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as "a fiasco" and suggested American voters should follow the example set by Spain and change their leadership by supporting Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for president in November."I said during the campaign I hoped Spain and the Spaniards would be ahead of the Americans for once," Zapatero said in an interview on Onda Cero radio. "First we win here, we change this government, and then the Americans will do it, if things continue as they are in Kerry's favor."
Spain, making the world safe for Socialist appeasers... Posted by Orrin Judd at March 18, 2004 6:43 PM
Gosh dang it, Bush must have p*ssed that guy off. It really is impressive courage on the part of Zapatero.
I wonder if the US shouldn't start discussions with ETA. After all they are a persecuted minority, and they've been dominated for Centuries by the Spainiards.
Posted by: h-man at March 18, 2004 7:21 PMI wonder if this was one of the "world leaders" who Kerry says want him to win.
Posted by: MarkD at March 18, 2004 8:13 PMIt's a free bit of hyperbole for Zapatero.
It rallies his supporters in Spain, and Bush wasn't going to be sending him roses, anyhow.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at March 19, 2004 2:13 AMHowever, he seems like one of these over-eager types who is basking in the affirmation he's getting from folks on the left both inside and outside his country over his bashing of Bush, much in the way Chiraq, Schroeder and their ministers were a year ago during the run-up and the start of the Iraq war.
The fact that there's actually a price to pay down the road won't dawn on him until he realizes all his current accolytes aren't going to protect Spain from the next terrorist attack or pay the coumtry's bills for his expanded social programs.
Posted by: John at March 19, 2004 7:40 AM
Things are in Kerry's favor? Who have they been reading, Dowd?
Posted by: Bartman at March 19, 2004 10:42 AMSpanish Socialists, in Submission to the Will of Allah...
Posted by: Ken at March 19, 2004 12:34 PM