Well the newest meme is that the Spanish voters "appeased" the terrorists by voting Aznar and his People's Party out of power from the right wing shills in America. The effect can be seen by the newspaper readers writing in to the op/ed pages. Already, writers are reflecting the meme in the Rocky Mountain News Op/Ed page on March 16.

''Are Europeans prepared to grant all of al-Qaeda's conditions in exchange for a promise of security?'' asked Kagan. ''Thoughts of Munich and 1938 come to mind''. Mr. Kagan is the co-founder of Project for New American Century.

The blindness of Mr. Kagan is that Mr. Bush has already acceded to Osama bin Laden's two major demands of 1). American troops withdrawing from Saudi Arabia and 2). The overthrow of a secular dictatorship in Iraq. So there is no "appeasement" on the part of the Spaniards nor of the the incoming Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who has vowed to make the "war on terrorists" his number one priority.

I've written a new poem a couple of days ago, during my reading of Mr. Krugman's book, "The Great Unraveling".

looters, swindlers, and traitors

bring'em on
     he says in his faux texas slang
          the pampered boy of andover and yale and a harvard legacy

the carny barkers that surround him
     in the oval office
          place him on the same level as roosevelt and chruchill during war
               but he dishonor's their names and keeps Americans in fear

the comparison is not with john kerry
     but with the constitution, the bill of rights, and
          those presidents who have acted for the common good

what has he done to this nation
     to steal from our children and grandchildren
          to kill and maim not for our nation's survival but for his own satisfaction
               as he mocked the pleas of a woman on death row in texas

letting people bet their retirement money on a shell game he plays
     as chicken bones he swallows scar his throat
          and misery cannot be beheld because it would upset his beautiful mind

while the media organs play footsie with who slept with whom
     letting his gremlins work to remove all safe guards of the people
          letting his worm tongue speak falsely without penalty
               subverted from their essential duty to this nation

chewing and grinding down our freedom
     in exchange for security
          the security of the concentration camp cell
               the silence of the wage slave is his ideology for all Americans

the eagle bound and gagged
     force fed until obscenely bloated
          fatted for the 4th of july feast
               as he smartly salutes the flag but give the finger to our constitution

what's on a piece of paper
     is never as good as the moist palmed handshake between men
          what's on a piece of paper
               except the ideals of freedom that we, not him, would die for