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The excerpt below is from the Associated Press. The article was widely picked up by many outlets. You can read the rest of it here.

However, if Thursday's bombings are seen by voters as the work of al-Qaeda, that could draw their attention to Aznar's vastly unpopular decision to endorse the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and deploy Spanish troops there.

I don’t doubt that’s true but it is the wrong sentiment. If people get angry at their government because al-Qaeda has brought their brand of murder to their soil, they are implicitly stating, “If you leave them alone, they will leave us alone.” It is tantamount to appeasement. Not only is that wrong, it doesn't work. The message needs to be loud and clear and it needs to be universal. It needs to be, “They (al-Qaeda) will be hunted down and exterminated. They are not welcome anywhere.”

ScorpioGirl checks out. She was one of my first blog friends and I thoroughly enjoyed her delightful entries. My blog moves up a notch with hers retired. In an incredible oversight on my part, hers has never been BOTD. Better late than never, that will be remedied today. She is concentrating on her studies and her writing. AllTheBest, Fi.

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: “After being reminded by Adam's post about a particularly vivid dream I had the other night (in which I cornered a certain Lord of the Rings actor in a bar and was just leaning in for a much anticipated and highly immoral snog when the alarm went off, goddamn it!), I decided today that there was no need for tedious spiels about my fellow students, observations about the weather or recollections of my
crime-fighting fantasies."