Old Europe is a Bushism which is a perfect example for the American ignorance of the people's wills in Europe. Neither France nor Germany participated in the war because the reasons were made up for the removal of Saddam because the population was against it! All of Europe is "old" but so is India, China and so forth... I suppose anyone with more than 500 years documented history must be "old"!

But back to the thread:

Spain's rulers lost due to a magnitude of problems. Economics, ETA, the population being against backing the US etc. The terrorist attack has nothing or very little to do with the outcome of the elections. Until the day of the election the Spanish PM claimed in the european press that the ETA was to be held responsible. May it be that people got sick of being lied to and decieved about issues pertaining to their families?

I hope for once that Americans don't listen to the tasteless "I defend America" from Bush but look at the real record of his legislation. If you see past the "war on terrorism" Bush has not produced anything worth re-electing him for and the damages done by his rule are far reaching and will take years to repair.

~Grisu