If Spain votes for appeasement following the horrific train bombings, my sympathy for the country will come to an abrupt halt: Spain Votes in Election After Attacks.

MADRID, Spain - Spaniards voted Sunday in general elections thrown wide open by a reported al-Qaida claim that it staged deadly rail bombings last week to punish the government for supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Protesters shouted “murderer” at the ruling party candidate as he cast his ballot.

Some voters also blamed the government for Spain’s worst terror attack, saying President Jose Maria Aznar invited the attention of Osama bin Laden’s terror group by allying Spain with Washington in the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

Fueling anger were suspicions that the government withheld information in the investigation to avoid political fallout from the Thursday bombings, which killed at least 200 people and wounded about 1,200. The government had initially blamed the Basque separatist group ETA.

“I didn’t intend to vote, but changed my mind,” said Javi Martin, 30, who works for a TV station in Madrid. “And not because of the attacks, but because of the responsibility of the Popular Party. They gave out information drop by drop. It would have benefited them if it were ETA.”

Has Europe learned absolutely nothing from the last century? Has Spain forgotten the lessons of the Moslem invasion that once subjugated their entire country? Is this tendency to blame their own government (instead of the actual mass murderers) really as widespread as media make it seem?