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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As for a "green light to bomb" they didn't need it before they planted them on the trains so what real difference do you think it makes now? That the spanish troops will be withdrawn from Iraq is of course one feature that perhaps had more bearing on the outcome...Perhaps they had had enough of seeing their own troops lives being put at risk daily and lost for nothing or perhaps the spanish people had had enough of backing a military dictatorship that invades other countries under a flag of looking for non exsistant weapons to merely secure a hold on that countries natural resourses for it's own use?
After the anti-war march in London, the organisers said 1� million people attended whilst the police - who actually have long experience of making such calculations - said there were around � of a million there. Whichever it was, in a country of some 60 million, it was a drop in the ocean. (Who knows?...If a pro-war march had been held, maybe 3 million would have pitched up!) So, what on earth do the antis base their silly claims on?
The plain facts are that (a) the Spanish have effectively qualified for "surrender-monkey" status - quote from 'The Simpsons' - just like the French beforehand and (b) the terrorists will almost certainly try to build on that if they see it as an advantage to do so.
In any case, they don't even need 'green lights' to bomb, as their atrocities in Istanbul and Bali (Indonesia) make abundantly clear. Both are Islamic countries, the latter being the most populous such country in the world, and many of the murdered were Muslims! However, if they see a green light, they will undoubtedly 'drive on'.
The Spanish decision is shameful. What amazes one is that the population seem to have elected the people responsible for the decision to withdraw from Iraq because the then Government had not fingered the suspects within the 48 hours between the atrocity's happening and the election's starting! It might prove to be a case of "elect in haste, repent at leisure."
The country's split around 50/50 and that's all there is to it...any variations will almost certainly depend on the timing and wording of the pollsters' question on the matter.
Re the size of the anti-war march, we had much the same sort of exaggerated claims made by the pro-hunting march-organisers earlier. (I don't agree with them either!) I simply don't find people whistling and chanting brain-dead mantras - on whatever topic - on the streets very convincing politically.
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