Wow. Everywhere I go this moring I read about Spain. Admittedly, before last Thursday, I knew very little about Spanish politics. I knew who the Prime Minister was and that a majority of the Spanish population opposed the US-led war in Iraq. A few days before the bombings, I had heard that the current leading party, the People's Party, was poised to take the election. Then the bombings happened.
The pictures were horrifying. I couldn't even imagine what it must have been like to be there when the trains blew up. Spain grieved, and then the populace kicked the People's Party out of office.
The question of the day is being bantered back and forth all over the internet. Did Al-Qaida have anything to do with the bombings? If this is true, then did the terrorist group really help change the outcome of an election?
We shouldn't be so quick to rush to judgement. This mess has to be sorted out before any kind of assumption can become truth.