Golan from HispaLibertas forwarded us his translation of an op-ed in Spanish by incoming Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos—the EU’s former official Arafat toady—displaying a level of bile and mendacity that’s very disturbing to see in a top government official. Here’s the original Spanish article: Irak, la crisis de una guerra fracasada.

And here is Golan’s translation:

Iraq: the crisis of a failed war.
By Miguel Angel Moratinos.

It’s now one year since an illegal and immoral war started. A war defended by its promoters as a conflict between good and evil. A war justified by a string of lies and a heap of nonsense.

It’s said that truth is the first casualty of war. In this case, the truth was massacred even before military operations started with great fanfare on March 20. Based on an extravagant and weak strategic design, the American military machine and her stooges entered the Iraqi wasps’ nest like a bull in a china shop. The alleged end of the war was followed by a catastrophic post-war management that is turning into a diplomatic and military failure of historical proportions.

Some searched in the disgusting figure of the dictator Saddam Hussein the cause to justify a war rejected by millions of citizens on the grounds of morality and common sense. Others asserted that this war would make the world more stable and safer, thus giving a definitive impulse to the efforts trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. The actual result has been clearly different.

One year after, the world is more insecure; instability in the region has increased and the peace process in the Middle East is on the brink of collapse.

In Europe the outcome has also been devastating. The intolerable blind following [of the US posture] by those headed by Jose Maria Aznar, has provoked grave tensions inside the European Union. The transatlantic relation and UN’s credibility have been seriously damaged and what is worse, they have opened a big breach in the public opinion in the Middle East and the Gulf that can have grave consequences in the future.

All of us must give our part to solve such nonsense from the standpoint of responsibility and international legality. The strategic interest of Spain and Europe is to avoid widespread destabilization among our Southern and Eastern Mediterranean neighbours. It’s urgent that the Iraqi people regain control of all their territory as soon as possible. And to achieve this, the only way is a coordinated effort of the international community leaded by the UN. The recent announcement of the approval of the Iraqi Constitution is a positive signal, but only if it can be integrated into a new political approach of the whole process. Only in that case and in the framework of these positions it is possible to consider the presence of Spanish troops deployed in Iraq. These troops must not be there as occupation forces defending themselves in a hostile land, but as guarantors of the transition to a deserved better future for the Iraqi people.