Even With U.N. Resolution, Spain Says It Won't Send Troops Back to Iraq

Is Kerry going to support the overthrow of Zapatero along with Chaves?

way.

Zapatero promised to withdraw Spanish troops (if he was elected) LAST YEAR, well before the train attacks.

The Spanish election was close. There was a chance Zapatero's party was going to win, anyway. Polls showed the gap between the 2 parties becoming narrow. No polling is allowed in the week before the election, so no-one knows how close it had become.

Aznar's party hurt itself by trying to insist that ETA and not al-Qaeda was behind the bombing (Aznar's party had been strong against ETA, but also had brought Spain into Bush's war against the wishes of 90% of Spaniards, so an ETA attack would have served Aznar better than an al-Qaeda one). When the truth about the bombing suspects came out -- not only who was suspected, but that the Aznar government had suppressed the information until the NIGHT BEFORE the election, people were angry. More people participated in the election than in the previous one, and they gave the win to Zapatero.

"They got the message from Al Qaeda" is bull that serves two people: Bush and Aznar.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3670627.stm

Spain suspects 'were informants'

The Madrid attacks were the worst of their kind in Europe
The Spanish interior ministry says it is investigating reports that two suspects in the 11 March Madrid train bombings were police informants.

The move came after Spain's El Mundo newspaper said Moroccan Rafa Zuher and Spaniard Jose Emilio Suarez had been in contact with police before the attacks.

That would be my position: "No troops under any circumstances for the occupation." Iraq is not truly sovereign until the last troops have left.