PURPORTED AL QAEDA LETTER CALLS TRUCE IN SPAIN! (BLACKMAIL ALERT!)

Yahoooo via Reuters ^ | 3/17/04

[dogbyte12]

They are doing triple reverse psychology. It's just them getting their digs in at President Bush. They know that the worst insult they could give to him would be to endorse him, so there ya go.

[ChuckShick]

It figures, Reuters would print any crap to hurt Bush.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

The facts:

Party: Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)
Leader: Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO
Seats won in this election to the Chamber of Deputies:164
Seats won in this election to the Senate: 81

Party: People’s Party (PP)
Leader: Mariano RAJOY
Seats won in this election to the Chamber of Deputies:148
Seats won in this election to the Senate: 102

The Socialists WON with a close 164-148 plurality.(Not an absolute majority in the 350-member Chamber).

The Peoples Party LEADs the Senate elections, with 102-81 of the direct votes of 208 seats this week.

The remaining 51 Senate seats, are appointed by the Legislative Assemblies of the 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities – Comunidades Autónomas - in the following way: these Assemblies appoint one Senator each, plus one more for every million inhabitants who live within the Autonomous Community.

Now in 2000:

Party: People’s Party (PP)
Seats won in last election to the Chamber of Deputies: 183
Seats won in last election to the Senate: 127

Party: Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)
Seats won in last election to the Chamber of Deputies: 125
Seats won in last election to the Senate: 61

2000 was a much greater "LANDSLIDE" with the PP gaining more than 50% of each Congress

[DynamoPlus]

In the full version of this article the terrorists actually endorse Bush!

A group claiming to have links with al Qaeda said on Wednesday it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new Madrid government would withdraw its troops from Iraq (news - web sites), a pan-Arab newspaper said.

In a statement sent to the Arabic language daily al-Hayat, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the Madrid bombings that killed 201 people, also urged its European units to stop all operations.

[snip]

WE WANT BUSH TO WIN

The statement said it supported President Bush (news - web sites) in his reelection campaign, and would prefer him to win in November rather than the Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), as it was not possible to find a leader "more foolish than you (Bush), who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom."

In comments addressed to Bush, the group said:

"Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization."

"Because of this we desire you (Bush) to be elected."

[Mark Felton]

The Spaniards will not live this down for generations. They were conquered by terrorists. They must hang their heads in shame.

[AntiGuv]

Whatever makes you happy, bud!

[FRgal4u]

Look at the bright side, this letter has now put Spain's new govn. on the spotlight of History. Will the new PM forever remember as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century? That's his choice now.

I love that AQ talk about the conquest of Madrid. Time for the Spainards and smell the crap they sow last Sunday.

[VRWC_minion]

They want Bush to win, yet they don't want Spain to support Bush. This is worse lying than Baghdad Bob.

[areafiftyone]

They are already saying Karl Rove wrote it.

[sheik yerbouty]

After all, all the jihadists want is the Sudetenland!

[areafiftyone]

And 75 camels to love!

[sheik yerbouty]

You are too generous, giving them three more than is written!

[Iberian]

The Spaniards have killed the Muslims over and over since the year 711. They have kicked the trash out out them.
Lets see if we can do it. They did it mano-a-mano. Can we do it with dare I say, Miny nukes.

We can, we should and then, we hand the football to Kerry.

[Iberian]

Last I heard the Euros were countries in this planet. Divergence comes to mind.

[hershey]

Unfortunately, the US will have to save their cowardly hides.

[Arpege92]

They forgot to send a video of themselves dancing in the street with such delight after killing 201 Spaniards.

[Polybius]

It was a sad day when the Spanish Socialists changed Spain's patron saint from Santiago Matamoro (St. James the Moorslayer) to Santiago Besamoro (St. James the Moor Kisser).

Now we just have to wait for lessons of history to be re-learned by a new generation of Spaniards and for the pendulum to swing back the other way.

[Travis McGee]

"Praise be to God who gave us this victory in the conquest of Madrid... where one of the pillars of the axis of Crusader evil was destroyed,"

[wai-ming]

A truce?

Interesting choice of words here. Does not "truce" imply that two sides are at war? When did Al Qaeda declare war on Spain or vice-versa?

Also, isn't it usually the stonger of the two opposing sides that "declares" a truce? Is Al Qaeda suggesting that they have the upper hand here?

[RightOnline]

I'd send my own in return.

Dearest Al-Qaeda:

F**k yourselves and your "truce". See you in Hell. Bring it.