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2004-04-27 Europe
Spain to Float Iraq Proposal to France, Germany
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Posted by TS (vice girl) 2004-04-27 9:02:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Haahahahaha, Spain isn't in a position to make proposals. The only thing Zapatero is free to do is grab his ankles for his Al Qaida masters.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-27 9:57:06 PM||   2004-04-27 9:57:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Last I heard the Iraqis don't want the UN and wouldn't be to keen on most Arabs given both pandered SH for years.
Posted by Phil_B 2004-04-27 9:59:27 PM||   2004-04-27 9:59:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like Zapatero isn't satisfied with being out in the cold today. He wants to be out in the cold for decades. What a moron...
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-04-27 10:10:40 PM||   2004-04-27 10:10:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 G7 - votes no.
Posted by B 2004-04-27 10:12:20 PM||   2004-04-27 10:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 But, but, but, but Binny told them to leave Iraq!!
Posted by Rafael 2004-04-27 10:21:21 PM||   2004-04-27 10:21:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What's next from the Vichy Spain government? A Blue Division sent to help the islamofascists?
Posted by Jackal  2004-04-27 10:25:49 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2004-04-27 10:25:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This is an interesting political gambit almost certainly meant to provide Kerry with a credible 'multilateral' alternative to Bush's cowboy approach to Iraq. Watch for them to float terms in the Security Council that are unpalatable to the Bush admin such as total US withdrawal to be replaced by morally superior and financially disinterested 'blue helmets'.

If we're smart, we'll probably play along for a bit and maybe even coopt this initiative if possible. However, it's clearly a bluff as Europe cannot come up with the cash or troops to do the job unless India or China somehow pony up.

I normally question the political emphasis of some RB posters, but watch Kerry's foreign policy speech this week. I guarantee they're throwing him a bone and he'll try to catch it.
Posted by JAB 2004-04-27 10:32:29 PM||   2004-04-27 10:32:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm starting to lose respect for these Spaniards. How about we kill a few of them and then just tell them what to think? It worked for the Izlamonutz, it could work for us too.
Posted by Rawsnacks 2004-04-27 10:46:32 PM||   2004-04-27 10:46:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ah poor Spain right in the other side of the border... Zapa seems to be beyond stupidity

Asking for Arab countries help that arent at all interested in a Iraqui democratic regime?!

UN= internal conflicts, nuanced views that perpetuates inaction, , ignorance and stupidity in security matters, and naif Rules of engagement.
And with so many political corruption i am sure Islamofascists will know any plans before even a final decision...

= worst than any Balkan/Rwanda disaster
Posted by Anonymous4602 2004-04-27 11:07:06 PM||   2004-04-27 11:07:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 You are starting I think they are the worst thing since Neville Chamberlain.
Posted by Ol_Dirty_American 2004-04-27 11:16:44 PM||   2004-04-27 11:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Watch for them to float terms in the Security Council that are unpalatable to the Bush admin such as total US withdrawal to be replaced by morally superior and financially disinterested 'blue helmets'.

Even making these proposals after chickening out in Iraq is, to put it mildly, unpalatable. If I were GWB, I'd laugh out loud in public if some reporter were to ask about Zapatero's "ideas".
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-27 11:20:31 PM||   2004-04-27 11:20:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This is Euro politics at it's best.
Spain had balls before this clown was elected. Does anyone really think this guy Zappo has any creditability? He has done nothing but run away. Anzar put this country back on the map. This idiot is going to put them right back to where they were before, a puppet of the EU but mostly for the French and Germans. If he thinks that the French and Germans are going to forgive Spain for being part of the "New Europe", this Zappo moron is one lost ignoramus. Who would you want backing you?The Germans and French or the USA? Looks like a no brainer when you look at it in black and white. I wonder if this idiot even asked himself that question?
Posted by Long Hair Republican  2004-04-27 11:38:28 PM||   2004-04-27 11:38:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 
Spain will ask anti-war allies Germany and France to join in a proposal calling for a U.S. exit from Iraq and a new international presence in the country
Hahahahahahahaha!

I want some of what Zappy's been smoking.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-04-27 11:46:26 PM||   2004-04-27 11:46:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 As British Prime Ministers traded back and forth in the years between WWI and WWII, were the British people any less our friends and allies? I don't know whether the Spanish are our friends or whether Aznar was our friend, but I don't intend to judge them on Zippy the pinhead. Remember that the average Joe in Peoria didn't change a wit just because we decided to promote Plains, Georgia's village idiot into one of the most powerful offices in the Free World. We would probably know if we could monitor the calls on Spanish talk radio, but I doubt they have such a thing. I would trust what JFM says over the information that Rueters wants me to receive.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-04-27 11:52:14 PM||   2004-04-27 11:52:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I publicly apologize for suggesting here right after the Spanish election that Zaperto might rise to the occasion. He is a baffoon who apparently lacks the self-awareness to foresee that his proposal would reveal him as a ridiculous coward.
Posted by Mike Sylwester  2004-04-28 12:01:25 AM||   2004-04-28 12:01:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 The Former Anonymous4052

From the desk of PM Zapatero, Spain

To fellow members of the axis of weasels :

In order to show my sincerity as the newest member of your group, I wish tomeet and urgently discuss means of appeasement with anyone who will listen. I invite all of you to meet with me at a time and place of your choosing ASAP.

Sincerely
J L R Zapatero
Prime Minister
Spain
Posted by BigEd 2004-04-28 12:06:01 AM||   2004-04-28 12:06:01 AM|| Front Page Top

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