'War and Peace', as an Zapatero (Before):
"This is a country of bridges, and peace agreements. The best safety assurance, you know what, Mr. Aznar? Peace, not war. "(Leader of the Opposition, the Congress, February 2003).
" I request the confidence to promote a clear idea of \u200b\u200bSpain: a prosperous country, yet decent, an efficient country, a united and diverse country, a country committed to the cause of peace and the fight against poverty and climate change. "(...) My idea of \u200b\u200bSpain is a country of peace advocate (...) and multilateral solutions to conflicts. (...) continue to work for a Europe that promotes peace. " (Address of investiture, 2008)
"Every war is a failure." (Leader of the Opposition, March 2003).
"So let me make it clear that Spain will assume the international obligations incumbent on the defense of peace and security. I will always, with one requirement: the prior decision of the United Nations or any other organization in nature Label. In any case the participation of the English armed forces in missions abroad will be agreed with the involvement of Parliament. " (Inaugural address, April 15, 2004).
"I hope they (Iraq) as a lesson to a civilized world will never launch a preemptive war, a war in case a war with excuses, lies, no reasons. "(In 2004)
"(...) The war is much easier than winning the peace. Peace is the task. A task that requires more courage, more determination and more heroism than war. So the English troops returning from Iraq "(Speech at the UN, September 21, 2004)
Zapatero (Now): Spain" takes its responsibility to protect the people of Libya, support and facilitate humanitarian aspirations for democracy, "the Libyan people. (March 2011).
" The international community will not be fooled by the Libyan regime and will check with all means available to strict compliance of the resolution. "(March 2011).
José Bono (Before): " No increase our presence in Afghanistan except in humanitarian and peacekeeping mission without listening to the criterion of the English Parliament. The Government's approach will be PP: peace and parliament. "(Minister of Defence, June 2004).
United Nations resolution on Iraq" has a part that is a fiction. "
" Does anyone believe that it is not a fiction that on June 30 the Iraqi government will regain full national sovereignty, says the UN resolution? -Questioned. I do not think so. "(Minister of Defence, questions resolution in June 2004).
"I'd rather die than kill." (Minister of Defence, May 2005)
"Here we do not get on their knees, we're so sovereign, even though we are smaller and less powerful as the United States of America." (Following the parade on Oct. 12 when the U.S. was once again present after two years without being listed.)
Behind the U.S. flag would rather see the suffragettes, Martin Luther King and the fighters for the emancipation of blacks, but not Bush or the tanks and planes. "
"What did the government of President Zapatero on the first day he took office was to order them back soldiers, that should never have gone. That's what we did in Iraq. That had to do an action because the United Nations so requests, as requested, then we would consider. We study the Government. We're taking it to Parliament, Parliament will ratify or not. "
" Can not act against the English people, their deepest feelings. This is not a survey, is a feeling that can not take any prime minister because it is a feeling that is felt, seen and been seen. "
José Bono (Now): " In my personal opinion I will tell you is to support government action, NATO and UN Together ".
José Blanco (Before): Popular Party should" begin to explain some consequences of the Iraq War "because without it," the price of oil had not soared as it has been fired " and "would not have affected as it is doing to our economy." (Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, February 2006).
José Blanco (now): "There is no photo of the Azores, but a resolution UN, and there are lies, but massive violation of human rights. "
Juan Fernando López Aguilar (Before): "(...) The Human rights, peaceful resolution of conflicts, the opposite of what we embarked on this war in Iraq, from which those who suffer pain in Spain on March 11, we became aware of the since-2003 -, which took place that mad and crazy offensive against international law has been the Iraq war, every day in Iraq, all have been 11 March. Not a single day in Iraq that has not been since March 11. "(At this point, January 2008, at the head of the PSOE in the Canary Islands).
Juan Fernando López Aguilar (now): "The situation is not the same as eight years ago. Ago eight years, under the lie of weapons of mass destruction and without any change in the status quo, there was a war of aggression against Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein and impose a different situation. "
Miguel Sebastián (Before): "We're all together in the world against war" (At the rally, along with Almodovar, the anniversary of the Iraq war, was at that time Socialist candidate for mayor of Madrid).
has not commented so far on the war in Libya.
Jesus Caldera (Before): On the war in Iraq: "full of lies "and" very serious consequences for mankind. "(After the snub of Zapatero to the flag in October 2003)
has not been delivered so far on the war in Libya.
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