Welcome to World War III. I think the bombing in Madrid makes it official. But it's still a weird one. The war. Established countries struggling to fight people working out of caves that use the Anarchist Cookbook as a war plan.

And with the change of parties in Spain, you can now say the terrorists won that battle. So a couple of strategically placed bombs, we have now learned, can change the course of national politics. That blows. If this didn't happen, and that many people came out to vote simply because they didn't support their government for supporting ours, then that's fine. But for there to be such a dramatic change in course based on the bombings, that's scary. You can't really blame the Spanish people though. They saw September 11th, were horrified, but hey, as far as they know, it's not really their problem. It wasn't until their government joined up with us that they became a more appealing target.

Al Qaeda bombings in Spain before the Iraq war: 0
Since: 1

It's easy to say, "Sept. 11 was an attack on the world, on democracy as a whole! Everyone must join us!" Yes, that's true, but I wouldn't blame a country's leaders for not wanting to join a war against a country where there didn't seem to be terrorists coming out of. Not too many people protested the war in Afghanistan.

I saw an article that said since Al Qaeda claimed they did this bombing because Spain supported the Iraq war, that proves Al Qaeda is in cahoots with Iraq. What? All this proves is that they are still around and a bunch of crazy bastards looking for excuses to bomb shit.

It's going to be easier for them to bomb European countries than it is America based on logistical reasons and weaker intelligence, so that's where they'll take it. It represents almost as big a hit as it would if it were on American soil.

It's simple to blame the Spanish voters right now for being foolish and not seeing the big picture. Fuck that. The picture for them right now is 200 dead people in their capital city, because their government chose to support a war that wasn't popular to begin with. Does that make the government wrong? Not necessarily, but it does express a common view among most humans that is, "Hey. I like peace, and when war is avoidable, let's avoid it."

Once again, I don't want to talk about war, so why am I? Damn. And once again, terrorists are assholes.