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Spain

• October 11 -- Inconvenient Victory for Pro-War Ally in Australia?
The Times plays down a pro-war Bush ally's victory in the Australian election -- but the defeat of Spain's pro-war PM in March was a front-page "Blow to Bush."

• April 19 -- Spanish Withdrawal "Serious Setback" In Iraq
In her story on Spain's withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Marlise Simons twice repeats it's a "serious setback" for the U.S. But after a year of Times complaints about Bush's "unilateral" efforts in Iraq, how can withdrawal of Spanish soldiers be such a setback?

• March 31 -- U.S. "Puritan Streak" Made Monica "A Big Deal"
Elaine Sciolino celebrates the social liberalism of Spain's prime minister-elect and blasts "the puritan streak in American politics that made the Monica Lewinsky affair such a big deal."

• March 22 -- Francisco Franco Is Still Dead...Times Bias Is Still Disgraceful
If Elaine Sciolino’s consistently hostile reporting on Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar wasn’t enough, she compares him to Spain’s former fascist dictator General Francisco Franco.

• March 17 -- "Greater Scrutiny" of Bush After Madrid, From….?
Nagourney teams up with Richard Stevenson for a lead story placing the Bush campaign on war footing, with a subhed claiming: "President's Foreign Policy Faces Greater Scrutiny After Madrid Attack." Yet the actual article hardly mentions Spain.

• March 15 -- Reign Fall in Spain Means Stormy Weather for Bush
Elaine Sciolino also fingers Bush for blame for the Spanish ruling party's loss in Sunday's election and sees the results as a problem for Allied forces in Iraq.

• March 15 -- Pain in Spain for Bush
After the defeat of Spain's Bush-allied party, David Sanger's analysis carries this blunt headline: "Blow to Bush: Ally Rejected--Voters Clearly Reiterate Opposition to Iraq War." Sanger, who rarely misses a chance to portray Bush's unpopularity abroad over Iraq, writes up the results as an "electoral rebuke" to Bush.

• March 12 -- Bush-Backing Spanish PM to "Get the Blame" for Terror?
Elaine Sciolino's hostile profile of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar appeared the morning of a terrorist attack in Madrid, and her story on the attack works in the same anti-Aznar points: "Ninety percent of Spaniards opposed Mr. Aznar's decision to back the United States in the war against Iraq, and some say that if Arab groups are responsible for the attack, Mr. Aznar will get the blame."

• March 11 -- "Strident" Spanish PM "Dragged His Country" Into War
Can the Times ever forgive European leaders who backed Bush in Iraq?