Spain, PNAC, Pro-Washington axis in tatters....two great pieces...

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch.....

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22911


1//Inter Press Service, Italy--ANALYSIS: FOR U.S. HAWKS, MADRID 2004=MUNICH 1938 (Warning that the bombings and the election results in Spain ''have brought the United States and Europe to the edge of the abyss'', the co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose alumni include the most powerful hawks in the Bush administration, poured scorn on European Commission President Romano Prodi's comment after the attacks that, ''It is clear that using force is not the answer to resolving the conflict with terrorists''… But aside from this rather fundamental disagreement over whether Iraq is or is not part of the war against terrorism, the eagerness with which the hawks have taken to comparing the Spanish electorate's verdict to the 1938 Munich agreement also betrays a basic distrust of democracy, about which the neo-cons have long been ambivalent.)

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FC19Ak02.html


2//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong--SHOCK AND AWE, FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO MADRID (March 11 changed Europe - and the world - and that's why there was such thundering silence from Washington, now replaced with the infantile hysteria of blaming Spanish voters. It's unbearable for the neo-cons to see there's now a totally different dynamic in the trans-Atlantic relationship. The Blair-Berlusconi-Aznar pro-Washington axis has been reduced to ashes… The perception among most European politicians, intellectuals and the overwhelming majority of public opinion is that Washington does not care about what happens in Iraq: the only thing that matters is to repatriate US troops as soon as possible for the electoral benefit of Bush next November…As well as Tony Blair, Italian premier and "amico di Bush" Silvio Berlusconi, whose credibility is near zero inside the European Union, is now even more isolated.)

[Cleita]

1. Thanks Gloria.

Great links.

[trappedoldman]

2. Interesting..

Interesting, thanks!

[rpannier]

3. The Reason Why..

the cons are so upset is that the voters pitched Aznar's party for lying. Bush lies so much you that a computer would have trouble keeping track. I guess in some countries, lying for political gain is still wrong. Something many US commentators do not get.

[KoKo]

4. Good Articles! I needed this after hearing the constant spinning from

the US Media.