History Rewrite
"Again, had Howard lost, it would have been treated by the Left here as a powerful anti-war mandate."
Nice to see your what-if machine still works. I think the output is crap though, might want to give it a kick.
" The elections in Spain, no matter what the actual motives of Spanish voters, were touted as such. "
If the reactions here were anything to go by:
The Right : Spanish cowards! Appeasers!
The Left: WTF are you talking about, it was mainly becuase the govt kept trying to pin it on ETA rather than any Islamic terrorism. They got caught in a lie.