Around the world simple journalists have written that "vote for the
socialists in the Spanish election was a vote for al-Qaida" and that by
voting the socialists back into power, the Spanish people let "terrorism
affect the democratic elections of a free country".

Pathetic. The conservatives tried to hide the truth about the
perpetrators of the deadly attacks because they believed that the
truth was harmful to them. They lied to to the Spanish people and
accused ETA, even when the evidence already pointed to al-Qaida or
it´s affiliates. And when this came out, people got angry and wanted
to get ridden of this scheming and lying ruling party and so they did
by using their democratic right to choose who runs the country.

According to these journalists, the Spanish people had only the right
to vote the ruling conservatives and now that the socialists have won,
these journalists think that they should have betrayed their election
promises and should have started to support the occupation of Iraq,
even if the party has opposed the war from the beginning.

It has been said many times, that one of the casualties of the "war
against terror" are civil liberties, and certainly, many people seem to
think that democracy should be abandoned, so that people would not
make "wrong choice", like the Spanish people did according to them.
Vladimir Putin´s Russia seems and ideal model for the "free world"
that fights against terrorism - by getting rid of it´s own freedom.

And the final irony is, that if the conservatives would have come clean
from the beginning, telling the truth and not fairy tales about ETA
involvement, then they would fared far better in the elections. They
tried to avoid defeat and so brought it upon them.