Muspell:
Not really. The spanish military has no recognition by the people at large. With that I mean that we do not care as much as Americans or the British do about their troops. In spain, it is generally accepted that our troops only play humanitarian missions, and thus we applaud their efforts, we do not condemn their actions.
His decision to pull the troops out was not a determining factor, but rather the perception that going to Iraq was a direct cause of our alliance with the US