These were the people who were happy with Clinton because he was "one of us." These were the people for whom any problem not addressable by the UN is dismissed as the U.S.'s fault. Note the emphasis by the winner - the U.S. must place the UN in charge in Iraq or he's taking his troops home (so what?) and that Spain will come closer politically to France and Germany in an attempt to act as a counterweight to U.S. policy. The program and intention here is crystal-clear, and Mr. Kerry is very definitely also "one of us." What we are about to witness is a political alliance between the Spanish government and the people who murdered 200 of their citizens, in an attempt to unseat an American president who is not "one of us." It is difficult to imaginea a more cynical course of action.
I am disappointed in the Spanish vote and, frankly, surprised a little. The message is that terrorism works, and that is an open invitation to its repetition. "We'll agree with you if you just go bomb somebody else" is the pathetic bleating of a sheep whose highest aspiration is to be the last one to be eaten.