Time for a bit of political venting:

I'm sure everyone has heard about Spain. Zapatero is now in power, finally doing what all of Spain really wanted: the removal of Spanish forces from the US-led invasion of Iraq (yes, invasion). Of course, as soon as he takes power (Zapatero), there is a document found, purportedly by US intelligence (in Spain [why are they there]), belonging to al Qaeda that explicitly states that the group set off those bombings in order to make the conservative government lose the upcoming election.
Now, there are (at least) two obviously absurd conclusions to be made from this "discovery." Firstly, if the al Qaeda were in fact setting off the bomb to force the expulsion of the conservative government, wouldn't it be rather obvious to the operatives working in Spain? That is, would they really need a document explicitly stating the reason for the attacks? (The answer is no) It makes no sense to have such a document.
Secondly, again assuming al Qaeda set off the bombs with the explicit intent to remove the conservatives in Spain, why would they not come out as soon as possible and take responsibility. Seeing as this is a time-sensitive thing (as elections usually are), they would like to let everyone know that al Qaeda is doing this so that the populace of Spain knows to expul the government that got the al Qaeda on Spain's back in the first place. But they didn't; rather, they let it come out on its own through slow police inquiries and the CAPTURE OF THE TERRORISTS THEMSELVES. Would they REALLY have wanted their arrests to be the final keystone in the framework for determination of guilt in the attacks? I don't think that makes sense (not even to Dubya).
Finally (yes, there are three, not two), assuming the al Qaeda wanted to get Spain to leave Iraq alone; would this REALLY be the best way to do it? First of all, the entire notion that al Qaeda would care enough about getting Spain out of the US-led coalition is ridiculous. First of all, al Qaeda IS NOT RELATED TO IRAQ IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. Secondly, assuming that the fundamentalists in al Qaeda wish to see Westerners out of Iraq, history has shown them that bombing a country usually doesn't help in getting the country to leave them alone (case in point: Sept. 11, 2001). Unless we assume that al Qaeda members (and the several university-taught terrorists leading that organization) refuse to learn from history and like to put their heads in the guillotine, the whole notion makes no sense.
Now you ask, why did they attack the Madrid trains? That's a good question. The way I figure it, there are several terrorist cells in cities across the world. I don't think this was intended as an attack on Spain alone; rather, it was meant as a second iteration of the attack on the WTC in New York in 2001. The al Qaeda (brainwashed by their leaders as they unfortunately are) wanted to further drive home the fact that no Westerner is safe from them -- not in the US nor in the EU. It is a sad state of affairs that you kill 6000+ and then 200+ people to state your message, but I believe that is the reasoning behind it. Nothing as fancy as the conservative right would have us believe.
In conclusion, don't believe the tripe they feed us in the television news (seeing as it is tripe, I hope no one would believe it even if I didn't tell them [unless of course, they like tripe]); it's all just a big lie to justify W's desire to be the World Good Guy (even if that means we break every single piece of international law and custom in existence today).