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Reader comment on item: Is an Iraqi Strongman Emerging?

Submitted by Javier Loscertales (Spain), May 7, 2004 at 12:49

I can perfectly understand that even for the only two nations that are currently defending freedom against terrorism (i.e., USA and UK), the task is getting worse and worse as time goes by. Difficulties escalate on the main world scenario where the future of the free world is being decided, wich is no other place than Iraq. And maintain the determination against the majority of western countries, with all their public opinion manipulated by the undocumented pacifism and so on...

But trying to favour now the thesis of the strongman sounds to me as a claudication. This kind of "less of two evils" could end up in a return of the same killer regimen that iraq people had enjoyed so long. And all the effort made these last two years would go to the garbage can. All of our people who gave their lives there, would have done so for nothing.

Despite my actual government, I´m proud to be Spanish. What Zapatero had perpetrated is a coward treason. US goverment should seriously think of taking measures strong enough to make understand public opinion in Spain that some "heroic retreats" are not for free. Meanwhile, France and Germany are already proving that Zapatero´s policy will send us back to the bottom of Europe, and ready for an eventual Al-Andalus-II.

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