{"id":585,"date":"2004-03-17T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T21:26:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-17T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T21:26:35","slug":"zapatero-stands-his-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/zapatero-stands-his-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapatero Stands His Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/reuters20040317_143.html\" target=\"_blank\">How refreshing.<\/a>  A politician displaying consistency and adherence to principle.  In response to pressure from Bush &#8221; not to yield to pressure from al Qaeda by pulling their troops from the coalition occupying the turbulent country,&#8221; Zapatero responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm,&#8221; Zapatero told Onda Cero radio. &#8220;The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n &#8220;My position is the same. I have explained it throughout the election campaign,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The occupying forces have not allowed the United Nations to take control of the situation.&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n &#8220;Fighting terrorism with bombs, with operations of &#8216;shock and awe&#8217;, with missiles, that does not combat terrorism it only generates more radicalism,&#8221; the 43-year-old Socialist leader said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way to fight terrorism is with the rule of law, with international legislation, with intelligence services,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is what the international community should be talking about.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How refreshing. A politician displaying consistency and adherence to principle. In response to pressure from Bush &#8221; not to yield to pressure from al Qaeda by pulling their troops from the coalition occupying the turbulent country,&#8221; Zapatero responds: &#8220;I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm,&#8221; Zapatero told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}