ESPAIN IS DIFFERENT

Story of an anti-hero February 3, 2010

Some people love him and the other way round. Same as Toni Blair in UK Aznar will be marked forever because the war of Iraq. Same as Toni Blair, or Bliar for others, he has ended discredited for that war. Both could have left a better image after theirtime in office but they chose, I guess they thought that this wasn’t a popularity contest, going to the was instead. There is a before and an after, after the picture in Azores.

Our anti-hero has something else in common with Blair: their political legacy has been strongly questioned and contested and they are taking advantage of their experience as ex-PM and making immense amounts of money out of it.

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