Spanish press mocks Zapatero over US snub

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | November 12, 2004 | By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid

[aculeus]

A columnist for the conservative newspaper ABC, stated bluntly: "Zapatero has put his foot in all of our arses".

[kesg]

Yet one more reason why Dubya deserved re-election.

[peyton randolph]

"Zapatero has put his foot in all of our arses".

Let's hope he removes his cranium from that particular orfice belonging to Chirac.

[Luis Gonzalez]

[Callahan]

It's worth remembering that not all Europeans are socialist appeasers. Some are just like us, and must be totally ashamed of what their governments have become.

[DeFault User]

It's not just a telephone snub. Other stories have pointed out that the US has canceled contracts with Spain's failing shipbuilding yard and refused to enlarge the naval facility at Rota. Big economic kick in the arse.

[CatoRenasci]

Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain!

[Bonaparte]

Zapatero is as stupid as the french. You don't insult and betray a man and then expect him to act like nothing ever happened.

"Don't pee on my shoe and tell me it's raining."

[Cicero]

Yes, I think Spain will come around again in due course. But Zapatero deserves no encouragement. He will now proceed to wreck their economy and be voted out when they tire of him.

[xJones]

It's even worse, Zapatero's defeated opponent, Aznar, visited the White House a few days ago in a private meeting with President Bush.

Somebody ought to tell these foreign idiots that loyalty runs deep in Texas, we remember friends - and - foes.

[peyton randolph]

Some are just like us, and must be totally ashamed of what their governments have become.

Agreed. Just look at the Dutch backlash to the Islamofascist murder of Van Gogh. The politicians are backpedaling from appeasement in order to maintain power.

[hnorris]

Zappy the Pinhead?

[Qwinn]

Heck, I'm of Spaniard descent (though born an American citizen, no dual loyalty, believe me) and I'm quite ashamed of what the Spaniards did in that election.

But thank you for your post. Remember, they made that decision in the trauma of a very recent terrorist attack, all polls indicate they WERE going to reelect Aznar (sp?), and it seems clear to me from this article that more than a few of them are beginning to regret that choice. I hope Freepers will have enough forgiveness and class in their hearts to welcome Spain as allies again without too much resentment, SHOULD Spain earn it by kicking Zapatero out in the next election.

Yeah, they screwed up, but they -did- hang with us for the first phase of it, their support was considered the 4th most important in the world at the time, and one bad election after a terrorist attack (and who knows that kind of voter fraud the commies over there are capable of, too) shouldn't render them the moral equivalents of the French. They don't deserve that. NO ONE deserves that.

Qwinn

[AmericanInTokyo]

Figures. For a guy's name which appears to mean "The Shoe Salesman".

[aculeus]

A columnist for the conservative newspaper ABC, stated bluntly: "Zapatero has put his foot in all of our arses".

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Physicist]

A columnist for the conservative newspaper ABC, stated bluntly: "Zapatero has put his foot in all of our arses".

Uh, no. Zapatero has only done what the Spanish people had mandated him to do. Now Bush is only doing what we, the American people, have mandated him to do.

It's not that Bush has snubbed Zapatero. It's that the American people have snubbed the Spanish people.

[infidel29]

Hey Spain...

[nicmarlo]

bump to your post; I agree....Bush's actions transcends himSELF, as usual.

[Physicist]

shouldn't render them the moral equivalents of the French. They don't deserve that. NO ONE deserves that.

Hmm...how can the French not be the moral equivalent of the French?