I had mentioned this in the Context, that they had Influenced the Result More towards their Direction and Favor, -and certainly Not an Actual Coup Per Se!

Qaida and it's Like Saw Spain as a Ripe, Pushover Target of the Moment. Like Weakly Attached Ripe Fruit on a Tree, that Falls at the Slightest Breeze or Touch! Or as Punk and Other Fungus Riven Wood and Branches on a Tree!

It wasn't a Pure Accident or Coincidence, in Timing, -That their Action Occurred so Close to! / Just Before, a Crucial Election!

In Addition to the Two or Three Astonishing Numerical Coincidences mentioned earlier in the Madrid Thread! ( Exactly 2 1/2 Years After 9-11, On the 11th of Another Month, and that it Occurred Exactly or Near Exactly 911 Days After 9-11 !!! ), It also Neatly Dovetailed with such an Auspicious Election Influencing Oppurtunity!

Whether by Happenstance Accident, or Intended Design, -It's had the Same Result.

And I Think the Accidental Route is Rather Unlikely. Qaida and Co. Saw this Plum Oppurtunity Coming Up!, - X Amount of Time Ago. This is probably Tilted to the Longer End, rather than the Shorter. It's a Weaker Point in our Overall Chain! If Someone Wants to Break such a Chain, -Thats where you Lay Down your Ax!

However they Did It, -They Did It! Aznar and Co. is Out!, and a More Retreatist Government is In!

They Knew which Spanish Buttons to Push! And just How and When, to Do So!

The People Voted, but in their Majority, -They Voted Wrong! It is Democracy's Voice, -Yes! But it was a Skillfully Coaxed and Coached Result, -All the Same! Talk About Foreign Influence and Interference in an Election!

In the Sense of How we can be our Own Greatest Enemy!, It's in our Appeasingly Weakening Ourselves! And Otherwise Dropping our Alert, Otherwise On Guard Ball! Which is Only Imperatively and Incumbently Behooved of Us (U.S.), in These New Circumstances and Times! Hate to Have to say it, But Spain is it's Own Worst Enemy in that Regard.

And we Do Have Another Enemy as Well, -Besides just Ourselves, -and a Quite Black and White One at That! Two Years and the Like Ago, -Hello!? Two Weeks Ago now Across the Atlantic, -Hello once again! "Osama, Qaida, and Co." Do Pretty Much "Black and White the Matter Up"!, -in their Own now Longstanding Actions and Pronouncements!

While it is Possible to Miscalculate and be One's Own Worst Enemy on the Hawkish Side of Things Too!, -An Appeasing Weakness is Far More Likely to Do So!, here in the Pretty Softy Pofty, "Peace At Any Price", West!

As I said in the Lead Up to the Iraqi War of a Year Ago, -"Be neither Trigger Happy nor Gun Shy!"

The Latest Mideast Developments, are also Not a Good or Encouraging Sign!

As to Preparedness Relevance in This, -Get and Be Ready! This Matter's Moved and Continues to Move at least a Good Few Notches Up!, on our All Round, "Preparedness and Liklihood" sorts of "Radar Screens"!

I Do Realistically and Reasonably Think that at least Partial TEOT. Times are Sooner or Later Coming Up! I Could be somewhat Wrong in This, -but Given Only Continueing Developments, -I Rather Doubt That!

So Things like Smoke Hoods, at least Basic Radiation Protection, Knowing Which Way the Winds are Blowing on an Attack Day, -Along with Bug Out Plans for Getting Out of Town! (On Foot if Need Be). -These Sorts of Things!, Shud now Start Entering More into our All Round Considerations.

This is Not "Survivalist Oversensitivity". But Rather I'm Afraid, a Coalescing, Congealing, Continuing Reality!

Keep the Old Friends of More Standard Survival Preparedness! But Make / Get Acquainted with these Newer Ones!, as Well!

As a Gruff, Street Smart Italian Gal often enuf said back in my Grade School Days, "(Please Kindly) "Get Used to It!" Only She Didn't say "Please" or "Kindly"! Wheras I Gladly Do. Either Way, It's Core Kernel Truth Remains! Of Generally and Basically Getting Used to It!

I Think such Possibilities may have Moved Up a Few Heads on the Totem Pole! -If perhaps still Not Up near the Top.

Prepare and Act Accordingly! Get and Be Ready!

Thanks for your Views and Input, Chris. Though I Honestly Have to Differ with Much of them, for the Reasons I've said.

Now on your Mentioming of the Writers, Artists, Intellectuals, and Others Who Set Out to Influence Spain, in their Own Way, in their Civil War, -of Which I've Forgotten to so far Mention.

On that, -I Know that Both Many Rightists and Leftists from Abroad, have Rallied to Spain's Side, in that Spanish Civil War. To their Respective, Opposing Sides, of course. These Too were Outside Influencing or Assistance Attempts. Both the Soviet Union, nazi Germany, and PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. Italy were among such, as well. While I Don't Like Caeteno Portuguese, Nor Battista Cuban type PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER.! (And certainly Not Castro Style Commi-PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER.!), Broadly Speaking, -I would Take Rightest Assistance or Influence to the 30s Spaniards, over that to Spain's Leftists of the Day, Anyday! But a Foreign Influencing Attempt, -It certainly in Many Ways is! I would Agree with you there on that!

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