Spain Likely to Pull Troops From Iraq

That didn't take long:

Spain's new prime minister-elect today reiterated that
Spain will withdraw its 1,300 troops from Iraq, unless the United
Nations "taking charge of the situation."
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said "the war has been a disaster, the
occupation continues to be a disaster. . . . There must be
consequences. There has been one already," he said, "the election
result. The second will be that Spanish troops will come back."
Zapatero made his comments in a post-election interview Monday with
Spain's Cadena SER radio. He elaborated later in a news conference,
saying that "the occupation of Iraq has been poorly managed . . . If
there isn't a change and the United Nations doesn't take charge of the
situation, and the occupying forces don't cede political control, the
Spanish troops will return and the deadline for their presence there
will be June 30."

Posted by flow Frazao on March 15, 2004 at 09:39 AM | Permalink