THE MADRID MASSACRE

New York Post ^ | 3/12/4

[kattracks]

March 12, 2004 -- The civilized world mourns with Spain today, but nowhere is Madrid's agony understood more deeply, more intuitively, than here in New York City. We were there, after all, just 30 short months ago.

It now looks like it was indeed radical Islamic terrorists who exploded 10 backpack bombs over a 15-minute period aboard trains and in commuter stations yesterday morning - killing at least 192 and wounding up to 1,400.

[livius]

"They must be destroyed.
It is that simple."

That's really the only solution. I hope the Spanish stay the course and do not listen to their own John F'n Kerry wing.

[Ippolita]

"Bush was speaking of the fecklessness exhibited by most of the Democratic candidates during this presidential primary season - and about the party's now-presumptive nominee, John F. Kerry."

The New York Times published this?

Unbelievable, they must have woken up all of a sudden!

[Ippolita]

Sorry!
It wasn't the Times but the Post ... I should have known!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Will someone get JFrigginKerry to explain about why this atrocity is no more than a schoolboy prank and that the appropriate response would be to file a lawsuit in some international tribunal filled with Eurotrash?

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[goldstategop]

Will John F. Kerry now demand this be resolved by U.N resolutions and some law enforcement paperwork? He has no idea what America and the West are up against.

[demkicker]

The New York Times published this?

Nope, check the link... The New York Post. The Slimes wouldn't dare print anything that negative about the rats.

[goldstategop]

Parallel universe view of 3/11 from the pen of the inmitable Steven Plaut:

It was like a parallel universe, not the one we are familiar with.

The "activists" and "militants" were suddenly referred to as "terrorists". Even CNN and the BBC discovered the "T" word. The governments of Europe, which ordinarily spend their days insisting that Israel deal with terrorists through capitulation, were suddenly enraged, expressing their disgust. It was suddenly not a legitimate form of protest against occupation to mass murder civilians. The newspapers did not not issue special editions documenting the abuses of human rights by Spain, nor bemoan the "grievances" of those angry at Spain. Not a single Euro-politician made a speech denouncing the illegal Spanish occupations of Ceuta and Mellila.

The World Court in the Hague did not begin an indictment of Spain for the conditions of its occupation of the Basques region, Galicia, and Catalonia. Museum and convention hall exhibits were not opened documenting the social and economic inequalities that prevail in Spain, which obviously are what really drive the bombers.

And the world did not demand that the Spanish re-examine their own behavior, to discover which manifestation of their arrogance provoked the Al-Qaida savages. The networks were not full of messages about how Moslems regard Andalusia as their own holy lands and that only their liberation can bring peace. For almost a full day, no politicians declared Islam the Religion Of Peace.

The US did not dock from aid to Spain the costs of security fences the Spanish were considering building. No one declared that the walls around Ceuta and Melilla made Spain an apartheid country and were forcing North Africans into Warsaw Ghettos because the walls are on Magreb soil. The European Parliament did not send millions of Euros to fund politicial organizations in Spain devoted to encouraging Spanish soldiers to refuse orders and to desert and refuse to serve in the army.

There were no protests against Spanish plans to implement "profiling" at its airports and train stations. The Scandinavians did not demand that the Spanish open up dialogue with the bombers, and Spanish leftists did not lecture their countrymen about how there are no police nor military problems to the challenges of terrorism.

Human rights groups did not demand that any captured terrorists be treated as prisoners of war with full Geneva Convention privileges and good lawyers. And unlike Israel, Spanish leftist professors did not march in solidarity with the bombers and demand that the world establish a boycott of Spain and Spanish universities. Spanish poets did not sing the praises of the bombers. Students on Spanish campuses did not march with al-Qaida banners and posters of Saddam, nor did they chant, "In Blood and Fire we will redeem thee Andalusia." Spanish schools did not begin teaching the poetry composed by al-Qaida poets, nor did the Opposition in the Spanish and EU Parliaments demand that the Spanish national anthem change its words to make Moslems feel more welcome and less alienated in Spain. Spanish citizens who engage in espionage for al-Qaida are not declared candidates for a Nobel Peace Price, nor have their posters carried in peace marches.

The State Department in Washington did not threaten trade sanctions against Spain if it took military action against the bombers. No one demanded that Toledo and Granada be restored to their rightful Moslem owners. Not a single newscast referred to Cordoba as a settlement. The Spanish Left did not send reps to Geneva and Oslo to negotiate secretly with the bombers. French politicians did not puff themselves up and lecture the Spanish about their cruelty and insensitivity. Kofi Annan did not demand that talks begin. The International Solidarity Movement failed to send crews to protect al-Qaida facilities in Syria and in North Africa.

Spanish churches were not torched around the world. Yale students did not announce a campaign to divest from Spain. Tikkun magazine did not devote a special issue to the suffering and pain of the bombers. Special teach-ins on human rights abuses by Spain were not held at Berkeley, nor did the students re-enact street theater in which cruel Spanish policemen bully poor Arab passengers getting on to trains with large suitcases. The press did not count the Taliban and al-Qaida members killed the same week in Afghanistan as part of this week's Spanish death toll. Jimmy Carter did not offer to serve as liaison between the government of Madrid and the bombers.

We will know when the world reverts to normality when it discovers that the Madrid bombings were all somehow the fault of the Jews.

[mewzilla]

Matt Lauer this morning referred to members of the ETA as militants...

[stanley windrush]

Spain should remember her past regarding this tragedy. It took the Spaniards 800 years to drive out the Muslims. That Franco and his fascists prevented the commies from turning Spain into another atheistic bolshevik dump should be considered a good thing despite the authoritarian excesses. He averted the war and kept his distance from Adolph and his thugs after using the Nazis arms and elite troops to gain his advantage over the "Republicans". His death paved the way for modern Spain to become the good ally of the United States. It has to take this type of tragedy to get the wimpy, socialist, secularized Europeans off their self-righteous palestinian-sympatico asses and be ready for more of these assaults. Like Bush said much to the horror of the lefties regarding this matter , you're with us or against us..that's how the Islamists see this...there is no grey area. It is war.

[FITZ]

All of us should remember the past --- Europe would have been overrun with Islam if the Spanish hadn't drive them back --- but we seem to forget the true goal of Islam.

[goldstategop]

Muslims are breeding in Europe like rabbits. The continent's a lost cause.

[Fresh Wind]

John Al-Qerry is insisting that the Spanish authorities scrape up the remains of the bombers and arrest them.

[White Eagle]

Who is responsible for yesterday's outrage?

John Kerry

Teddy Kennedy

Tom Daschle

Chuck Schuemer

Bill Clinton

Terry MacCauliffe... and the list goes on

[KC_for_Freedom]

That's really the only solution. I hope the Spanish stay the course and do not listen to their own John F'n Kerry wing.

Although both tasks are formidable, would it be easier (1)to police and protect every place a terrorist can hide a back pack bomb or (2) to find and kill every terrorist?

"They must be destroyed. It is that simple."

Just not easy.

[FITZ]

It's not easy --- but the Spaniards found a way in the past to rid their country of Islam. Not a politically correct way but it's the only way that's going to work, the only way that ever did.

[Remole]

This morning I sent a condolence note via email to the Consul General of Spain in Chicago. Here is his reply:

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Dear Sir/Madam,

The amount of messages of condolences, solidarity and support is being so overwhelming that we feel forced to write a common message of gratitude to all of you.

On behalf of the People of Spain, and on behalf the King Juan Carlos I and of our Government we would like you to know that we thank you deeply for this show of solidarity and friendship. Some of your messages were deeply moving some mirrored our anger and determination. We thank you all. And rest assured that terrorists and terror will not prevail. Together with you and with the other free and democratic societies of the World we will continue this fight until the end and we will win. Our common values and principles, our way of life are at stake.

Thank you all, again.

Francisco J. Viqueira Consul General of Spain, Chicago

La cantidad de mensajes de condolencias, solidaridad y apoyo que se están recibiendo es tan grande que nos vemos obligados a elaborar un mensaje común de de gratitud hacia todos ustedes.

En nombre del Pueblo de España, del Rey D. Juan Carlos I y de nuestro Gobierno quisiéramos que supieran que les agradecemos profundamente estas muestras de solidaridad y de amistad. Algunos de sus mensajes son profundamente conmovedores, otros reflejan nuestra rabia y nuestra determinación. Les agradecemos a todos. Y tengan la seguridad de que los terroristas y el terror no prevalecerán. Juntos con ustedes y con las otras sociedades libres y democráticas del mundo continuaremos esta lucha hasta el final y venceremos. Nuestros valores y principios comunes, nuestra forma de vida están en juego.

Otra vez, muchas gracias a todos.

Francisco J. Viqueira Cónsul General de España, Chicago

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[KC_for_Freedom]

Not a politically correct way

This does not bother me. They are earning the world's animosity, and either they deal with their own, or the free world will do so.