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...surprisingly large and diverse following. Meetings have been held everywhere from a Navajo Nation reservation in Ganado, Ariz., to an airplane terminal in Providence, R.I. Ongoing groups have formed in prisons, senior centers and homeless shelters. In recent months, international groups have popped up in Afghanistan, Finland and Spain. The common denominator? "People who get off on ideas come to this," says Fred Korn, 65, a retired philosophy professor, who attends the Wednesday-night meetings at El Diablo. "Outside of college, there's not a lot of opportunity to get together with people who want to talk about ideas...
...vast majority of Spaniards have always opposed their country's entanglement in Iraq. The vote merely expressed the will of the people." But this is a moot debate. Look at the issue from the terrorists' perspective. Having timed the bloodbath for the election, they scored beyond their wildest expectations. Spain is no longer ruled by a pro-U.S. government, and a pillar of the Iraq coalition has collapsed. On the first anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, every European government is on notice. The message: Distance yourself from the Great Satan--or else. We are back...
...Wall Street Journal, said, "If ... you can plant a big bomb in Europe, cause a government to fall and force a withdrawal of troops, then this would send the wrong signal to terrorists." He added, "That's not in Germany's interests or in Europe's or in Spain's." Winston Churchill put it more concisely: "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last...
...also feel uncomfortable, due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction." ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI, President of Poland, a key Washington ally in the war in Iraq, following Spain's threat to withdraw its troops from Iraq...
...Spain's most celebrated director is in trouble for a bit of unscripted dialogue. In Madrid last week, the nation's naughty auteur PEDRO ALMODOVAR said Spain's outgoing Popular Party tried to hatch a coup the day before its defeat in the March 14 election. The party denied the charge and threatened to sue the director for slander. Almodovar says he "just echoed a sea of rumors." Hey, can Bill Clinton sue anyone...