When you're looking at the numbers that were violently opposed to Aznar's policy, putting 1,300 Spanish troops in Iraq, initially with the Bush administration on the invasion of Iraq a year ago, there's going to be a consequence for that.
Senator Hagel commented on the backlash against former Prime Minister Aznar's support for the Iraq war.
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