'Great' Aznar moments (I)

'Are you suggesting NATO should bomb Lebanon?'- Stephen Shackur
'If is necessary yes'- J. M. Aznar
(Aznar interviewed in BBC's Hardtalk show during the Israeli-Hizbullah crisis in summer 2006)

'Raul Castro represents the continuation of tiranny in Cuba'
(Aznar's statement on his way back from a dinner party in Lybia hosted by Muammar Al Gadaffi, according to human rights organisations Cuba currently has 234 political prisoners, Lybia 450).

'Look me in the eyes, I am telling you Iraq has weapons of mass destruction'
(Aznar's statement to Congress on the eve of the Iraq war).

'Who are they to say one cannot drink and drive?'
(Aznar criticising the safety warnings by the Road Safety Agency during the Annual Wine Convention in 2007. In that same year 1,700 people died in car accidents in Spain).

'Young fascists are tired of giving and not receiving, tired of listening to promises and receiving failures [...] I, as a youth, and having read a copy of the Complete Works by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, I have taken a decision.'
(Aznar writing on SP magazine in 1969 as a young falangista- Francoist official and only party- of his admiration for Primo de Rivera's writing. Primo de Rivera was the main ideologue of Spanish fascism).

'I speak Catalan in the intimacy of my home'
(Aznar courting the Catalan nationalist leader, Jordi Puyol, for a coalition government in 1996).