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Felipe’s choice, looked down upon by other members of the royal family, acknowledges our times, allowing an accomplished outsider to enter into the cloistered fairy tale of kings and queens. Spain??€™s hallowed customs now find firm footing in our modern times...
Similar to the modernization of the monarchy is the recent election of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. As I sipped sangria with my friend Cesar—an economics student with communist tendencies—we discussed the lasting impression of Spain??€™s backwardness. Cesar felt that the recent election of Zapatero would finally change this image. The president has already proposed making abortions more accessible and even legalizing gay marriage. What once seemed alien in a traditionally Catholic country now has become accepted. While many, especially within the United States, criticized his decision to bring back...
...March 23, Australian opposition leader Mark Latham made a vital announcement to the public, declaring that, if elected, he would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by Christmas. It was a bold maneuver. The U.S. coalition in Iraq—already flimsy since the terrorist attacks in Spain??€”needs unconditional endorsement from its remaining major allies, but the recent pattern suggests that the Bush administration’s support from the world will be further curtailed by the end of the year...
...response to a question from the audience, Garzon said that he did not support Spain??€™s participation in the war in Iraq, and that he believed that the war was illegal and unsupported by evidence. He also said that the American detention of al Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay was illegal. “They are deprived of basic human rights. Systematic interrogation without legal counsel, isolation, and prolonged arrest without cause are all illegal...
...Spanish support for the war in Iraq fueled the bombing, voters pulled their support of a man who has a history of aggressive, anti-terrorism efforts designed to make Spain safer, only to elect a man who promised to withdraw from Iraq. Immediately following the election, Zapatero announced that Spain??€™s 1,300 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq unless the occupation was endorsed by the United Nations...