Still about Iraq?

Now that Spanish Socialist Zapatero has defeated Aznar's party, now that he has confirmed he would pull Spanish troops out of Iraq by June 30, whose fault is this? Aznar's? Bush's?

Police in northern Spain today defused three letter bombs addressed to journalists in Madrid, the Interior Ministry said.

The devices were found by a metal detector at a mail sorting office in Zaragoza, 200 miles north-east of the capital, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Each envelope contained a crude explosive device with 60g (2.12oz) of gunpowder, the ministry said.

The letters were addressed to Luis Maria Anson, the director and founder of Madrid conservative daily La Razon, Federico Jimenez Losantos, a commentator at radio station La Cope and the news director of the private television station Antena 3, who was not identified.

The ministry did not give any details on who had sent the letters, but said the return addresses listed on the envelopes did not exist.

Immediately after his election, Zapatero had, of course, jumped at the chance to side with fellow European appeasers:

Zapatero has also made clear that Spain will no longer be the loyal U.S. ally that it was under Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and that it is ready to side with France and Germany on key issues inside and outside the European Union.

Not everyone is ready to trust France with just about anything though:

Jiménez Losantos, one of the three recipients of the letter bombs defused by the police, emphasized the role of the security forces in the detection of the devices and said that if it should happen "in France or Italy, it is most likely that it would have killed all three [recipients]".

For those of us that can read Spanish, Federico Jiménez Losantos has a very good paper on why exactly, as an opinion journalist condemning leftist and islamist terrorism, he was targeted and why "[he] take[s] it as an honor" to have been targeted. Here's his conclusion:

For the supporters of liberalism, and especially for those at Libertad Digital, this was one more evidence of the value of freedom. If it wasn't costing us so much to defend it, its value would be of the tiniest. An economist would say that, in terms of costs and profits, only an immense profit justifies such an investment. But no investment is, in the end, more profitable than freedom, nor is there comparable human and social institution. Freedom is worth much more than life because life without freedom is not life. Neither life, nor anything.