{"id":588,"date":"2004-03-18T05:13:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-18T05:13:18","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T12:13:18","slug":"zapatero-dump-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/zapatero-dump-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapatero &#8211; Dump Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as &#8220;a fiasco&#8221; and suggested American voters should follow the example set by Spain and change their leadership by supporting Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for president in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said during the campaign I hoped Spain and the Spaniards would be ahead of the Americans for once,&#8221; Zapatero said in an interview on Onda Cero radio. &#8220;First we win here, we change this government, and then the Americans will do it, if things continue as they are in Kerry&#8217;s favor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A2865-2004Mar17?language=printer\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well.  Probably that puts an end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/15\/kerry.leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\">to this<\/a>, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as &#8220;a fiasco&#8221; and suggested American voters should follow the example set by Spain and change their leadership by supporting Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for president in November. &#8220;I said during the campaign I hoped Spain and the Spaniards [&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-588","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\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}