[IP] more on LATimes on Al Kaeda
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From: "Gordon C. Thomasson, Ph.D." <gthomas1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 15, 2004 3:48:30 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: LATimes on Al Kaeda
There is a basic falsehood perpetuated here, and by the Bush
administration.
The overwhelming majority of Spain's voters (conservatively 80%+)
opposed their government's going into Iraq before-the-fact.
There is absolutely no reason to say that the Madrid bombing
determined the election. The government had lost its mandate
by ignoring the overwhelmingly clear popular will. The bombing
at most motivated a larger margin of people to go to the polls and
do something about it.
Gordon C. Thomasson, Ph.D.
World History Faculty
Broome Community College (SUNY)
and bi-lingual in Spanish (I don't just rely on American media here!)
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