Blair and Charles at Madrid Bombing Funeral

[Robbien]

By Jon Smith, Political Editor, PA News, in Madrid


Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Prince of Wales were joining a world-wide congregation of mourners today to remember the 190 victims of the Madrid train bombing.

They were among thousands who thronged the Spanish capital’s Almudena Cathedral for the country’s first state funeral for anyone other than a member of the royal family since General Franco’s death in 1975. French president Jacques Chirac, German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and US secretary of state Colin Powell were also due to join the worshippers.

Earlier, Mr Blair was holding private talks with Spain’s newly-elected premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who has promised to fulfil his campaign pledge to pull his country’s 1,300 troops out of Iraq in protest at the US-led war. Mr Blair was hoping to use a week of concentrated diplomacy to persuade him that events on the ground were changing and his election promise need not be met.

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Mr Zapatero has said Mr Blair and US president George Bush should do “some reflection and self-criticism”, adding: “You can’t organise a war with lies.”

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comment: I am beginning to like this Mr Zapatero. Can we adopt him please?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. “You can’t organise a war with lies.”

I'd love to have seen Colin Powell's face when he made that remark.

[PartyPooper]

2. Nobody from the U.S. was there? Powell was said to be there and D.C., too

He was scheduled to be at the funeral...and, atttending the 9/11 commission hearings at the same time?!?

:shrug:

[murielm99]

3. Who did we send to the funerals?

Why didn't shrub go?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. He's too busy fund raising

and he's got a political campaign to run, you know.


This is what he was doing instead:




edited: to add pic

[salin]

5. and ole Dick

has to come to squeeze money... er fundraise... here in Indiana this week. No time for dealing with the consequences of our foreign policy and strong-arming other countries into diverting attention and resources from terrorism in order to go after Iraq. Yep the "Personal Irresponsibility" Administration in action again.

[smirkymonkey]

6. F**ing Moron Excuse for a Cowboy!!!

I just hate this guy so much!! Not only does he not give a damn about the mourners in Spain, he blatantly parades his indifference!

I really, really hate that guy. :mad: :grr: :mad: