[aft_lizard]

Spain you suck for voting him out!

[arnoldpalmerfan]

I agree.

[Miss Marple]

He was term-limited, but Spain still sucks for voting his successor out.

I LOVE Aznar, and good on him for telling it like it is!!

I am detecting a new tone of resolve in some men of the West: Pope Benedict, Cardinal Pell, Aznar, John Howard....they are beginning to speak out and point out the absurdity of the Islamic complaints.

I am hoping we are seeing the beginning of a stiffer spine in our allies.

Anyway, I am quite glad to see Aznar speaking out.

[cripplecreek]

I think the islamderthals should apologize for their current occupation of Jewish and Christian lands. While they're at it I'm sure some Hindus and Buddhists might like the same apology.

When they're done apologizing they can begin their retreat to former muslim lands.

[DB]

Well you have to give them some credit for voting him into office in the first place.

[ValenB4]

As much as I like Aznar, his defeat was not surprising. He supported the Iraq war when somethink like 90% of the people opposed it. And his government made a huge mistake in initially blaming the Basques for the Madrid bombings, when they had never done anything like that before. When you combine those factors, you're going to lose.

However, with Zapatero's immigrant amnesty plan blowing up in his face, with exacerbation of the immigrant problem, it is not a stretch to see some sort of Rightist coalition coming back into power.

[Bonaparte]

"Spain you suck for voting him out!"

Aznar never should have blamed the islamist attack on the Basque separatists during the election. That did him in.

[Don Carlos]

Actually, it was Aznar's successor, Mariano Rajoy, who failed to gain/retain a parliamentary majority. We all know why.

Believe Spain has no constitutional 8-year limit for their prime minister. Felipe Gonzalez, also from the PSOE (Socialists) was the PM from 1982-1996.

[chilepepper]

believe me, Spain has *really* gone downhill since he left. Spain was my favorite country in Europe, a sense of movement and progress. i went through there last year after about a five year absence and the change was marked. even the airport seems tacky and run down, more like the airports in eastern europe used to be...