Spain's out. Newly-inaugurated Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has ordered the 1300 Spanish troops serving as part of the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq to return home as soon as possible, the BBC is reporting as breaking news. Hey another novel concept - an elected official that keeps his campaign promises!
(A side note: while we here in the States completely mispronounce Zapatero's name - it should be "Thapatero", since in good Castilian Spanish z's are pronounced like th's - the Greeks actually get it right, transliterating the first letter of his name with a Θ!, not a Ζ!)
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