Realism in Spain in the year 2003

From Alejandra Diaz:

I would like to tak to you here about what happened in Spain in the year 2003 when the President Jose Maria Aznar decided to declare the war to Iraq, supporting the United States. Today in class while we talked about the fact that the states are self-interested actors, I remembered this moment of the history of my country in which thousands and thousands of spanish people went out to the street asking for the retreat of the troops of Iraq.

The Government did not listen to us though 9 of every 10 Spanish didn´t agree with the above mentioned war, the result was that in the following elections the above mentioned party (the one of Jose Maria Aznar) was voted out and since then in Spain governs the oposition party.

I just wanted to show, because you won´t probably know, the reaction to spanish population to that decision and the fact that the "realist" government (with sentences such us"not for future elections but for future generatons") in the end paid for it.