[Blood of Tyrants]

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[Blood of Tyrants]

One thing for sure. I believe that the Spaniards action to pick a PM that will run instead of fight emboldens the terrorists and makes the world and especially the United States less safe.

[mickie]

In time of trouble Americans always seem to pull together. We are strong, brave people.....and will support our President.

......I pray.

[raloxk]

1. Yes
2. Kerry

[boxerblues]

It will depend on if the media can spin it that if was had not invaded Iraq, no body would be attacking us. Keep all images of 9/11 off the air and its like its never happened

[SB00]

1. Yes. This is scary.
2. Bush. I believe America is strong enough to make the right choice.

[Toespi]

We are already there. Kerry does not want to mention 911, he wants to pretend that it never happened. In many polls, Kerry leads Bush.

[brbethke]

If you bomb a nation teetering on socialism...

When you put it that way, I have no doubt Al Queda will launch a "Bombing for Kerry" program this coming October.

Y'know, Kerry still hasn't identified the foreign leaders who have endorsed him. I wonder if the names Osama, Saddam, and Yassar are near the top of the list?

[SunnyUsa]

Spain's election results were the knee jerk result AlQaedia hoped for....It's a horrible example of how the terrorists "win" when people don't really THINK about what their vote says.

As far as this country, I don't think it would benefit Kerry (if that's the terrorist's candidate) to pull something off just before our elections - unless bin ladin is captured - then I think all bets are off and they'll do something horrible to try and affect our elections and foreign policy.

good post though, exactly what most thinking Americans should be wondering this morning.

[Swiss]

A terrorist strike in America before the election would justify police presence at most polling places to prevent attacks there.

On the upside we have an excuse to eleminate Democratic voter fraud and a large percent of the woobly 15% will be too scared to leave the house to vote in my opinion.

[InterceptPoint]

Here are my comments on this subject from another thread posted earlier:

My fear is that the Kerry/Major Media campaign of 2004 will convert enough of the WOT fence-walkers to make a repeat of the Spanish scenario in the U.S. look like it is worth a try to the al Qaeda leadership. If they see the election as being close and the anti-war crowd making headway with the American populace with their head-in-the-sand, Rodney King-Neville Chamberlain philosophy then the likelihood of a major terrorist event in the U.S. in late October will be 200%.

Kerry needs to be confronted with this possibility ASAP. Here are a few of the questions that Brit Hume might ask him (no hope that we will get this from the rest of the Major Media).

Senator Kerry:

1. Are you pleased with the outcome of the Spanish elections?

2. Do you see the results of the election as supporting your view that the Bush Administration was wrong to go to war in Iraq?

3. Do you see the Spanish election as a victory for al Qaeda and the terrorists? If not, explain why.

4. Do you think that the impact the al Qaeda attack had on the Spanish election will encourage other acts of terrorism in Europe and in the U.S.?

5. If not, do you think Europe and the U.S. are now safer as a result of the message that the Spanish elections have sent to the world community. If so explain why.

6. Do you think we should end the WOT and negotiate a peaceful settlement with al Qaeda along the lines you successfully advocated for the ending of the Vietnam war?

....and so on.

[brothers4thID]

1. Yes, most definitely

2. You know Al Queda had no love for Spain before the Iraq war. Does anyone seriously think that Spain was safe from terrorism before March of last year? How many Spanish citizens were in the WTC on 9/11? How many were in Bali, or the bank in Turkey? And yet wily politicians turned this completely into a debate about the war and how it made Spain vulnerable. So do I think that our own wily politicians could turn a similar attack into an argument that Bush has not done enough to safeguard us while running off to adventures in Iraq? MOST DEFINITELY YES

My prayers are even more so with the Spaniards now. They have just made a pact with the devil.

[rhombus]

These are good questions. I expect every pundit will be debating these issues over the next 7 months. We will have ample opportunity to buck up the wobbly and make our point against appeasement. Spain is so new to democracy and hasn't realized its responsibilities yet. We need to make sure that if (God forbid) we are attacked on our own soil the Dems aren't able to say -- See Bush made us no safer.
Fear is the enemy of freedom and we need to honor the voices who shouted "whatever it takes" while standing amidst the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center, the Petangon and the fields of Pa.

[PISANO]

Good Questions; Yesterday I posted my answers in the form of STATEMENTS. Yes, the utter surrender to the Terrorists by the Spanish population will obviously embolden Al Qaeda to attack us sometime right before our election.

....and the American people will NOT be intimidated by the attack as I believe the best in Europe immigrated here long ago.

[hellinahandcart]

We're going to get the answers to both questions for real, in November. Bank on it.

I do know that we would not have voted Bush out three days after 9/11. The rest of that month was the last time we were united as a country.

It took three years of constant chipping and carping to get us to this point, where I look at the liberals surrounding me here, all ready to piss everything away in order to get rid of Bush, and I realize I don't know the answer to your question anymore.

If we follow Spain's lead, we are not doomed, we are damned.

[LS]

I think you have skipped a step, because I don't think AQ goes right from Spain to the U.S.

3) Can we expect other election-influencing bombings in Europe [yes] and can we expect similar reactions there [yes]?

But I do think they will try something here, and it will have an impact. There is a guy at work---very highly skilled computer graphics genius, but not well-educated overall---who thinks that 9/11 was something that was "manipulated." There are WAY too many people like him out there.

[KantianBurke]

Depends. If a serious terror attack occurs between now and early summer, it'll be quite bad for Bush. He'll have to explain why the Dept. of Homeland Security, TSA, Patriot Act and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren't able to prevent them. If its right before election day, there will be a rally around the flag type of sentiment.

[proud American in Canada]

as for #1, I worry about that too. One difference is that 90% of Spaniards were apparently opposed to the invasion of Iraq, in contrast to the support it had here.

On the other hand, the support of the Iraq war is (thanks to the media) considerably lower than it should be.

As for the "undecideds"... I really don't know. The support Kerry appears to have is really discouraging. Too many people choose ignorance.

[Reader of news]

Spaniards are coward!

[WV Mountain Mama]

I would think that Kerry saying that terrorism isn't a threat would really bite him if there were a terrorist attack.

[LizardQueen]

My $.02:

I think that our situation and Spains is a bit different, in that we were attacked by Al Qaeda on our own soil, THEN began the War on Terror.
Spain joined the war first, THEN got attacked (by Al Qaeda, that is, the ETA problem had been around for years).

If we get bombed before the election I think it's more likely to push the country back to Bush, rather than away since the war was our response to being attacked not the other way around.

What I am disappointed about most with Spain is that they caved to a blatant attempt to manipulate their gov't. I would've hoped that even those opposed to the Iraq war would've recognized the bombing for what it was and said "F-- you, you can't influence our elections" and voted against the socialists for that reason alone

LQ