The Socialist's election in Spain was not totally unexpected, the Popular Party had only about a 3 to 4% lead going into the election, and the manner in which the government tried to lay the total blame for the terrorist attack on the ETA wasn't well received.
Polls show that 90% of the Spanish voters were against the Spanish government's involvement in Iraq. This may very well be an example of when the government didn't listen to the voters, and the voters spoke at the ballot box by rejecting that government.
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But there's the real ironic twist: if the appeasement brigade really do believe that the war to depose Saddam is and was utterly unconnected with the war against al Qaeda, then why on earth would al Qaeda respond by targeting Spain? If the two issues are completely unrelated, why has al Qaeda made the connection? The answer is obvious: the removal of the Taliban and the Saddam dictatorship were two major blows to the cause of Islamist terror. They removed an al Qaeda client state and a potential harbor for terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. So it's vital that the Islamist mass murderers target those who backed both wars. It makes total sense.
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"total sense" except to those who can actually see the forest for the trees!
The suggestion that the attack on Spain validated the connection between the Iraqis and the Islamist terrorist is ridiculous, as ridiculous as the suggestion above that Iraq was one an "al Queda client state" and two that Iraq was a "potential harbor for terrorists and weapons of mass destruction".
Anybody with an understanding of mid east politics (count the writer of this piece among those NOT understanding) was able to predict that an attack on Iraq would forment a response from the islamist who saw such an attack as a part of the "crusade" against Islam. That does in no way prove, support, validate or any other way connect the Saddamite Iraq to the radical Islamist terror network, except of course to those who are using the Spanish attacks to futher their own goals and self interest.