Remember Madrid: March 11, 2004

Barcepundit commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Madrid train bombings with a simply-stated enumeration of the names of the dead.

Jules Crittenden reminds us of the importance of March 11:

The attack was a victory for Islamic terrorism, which succeeded in changing a government and its foreign policy. The attacks tipped the balance in a close election just days later amid recriminations over the government’s initial focus on its other domestic terrorist problem, ETA. Spain, under its new socialist government, shortly afterward withdrew its troops from Iraq.

When I think of the Madrid bombings, I'm always reminded of the above picture of terror's deadly destruction, and I disabuse the antiwar idiots that "it couldn't happen here."

More photos, here.