Zapatero pledged to remove Spanish troops in his winning campaign. But his announcement – a showing of backbone to the United States – was a bombshell, coming just hours after the swearing-in of his ministers and as his foreign minister prepared to travel to Washington to discuss the dispute.

In a five-minute address at the Moncloa Palace, Zapatero said he had ordered Defence Minister Jose Bono to “do what is necessary for the Spanish troops stationed in Iraq to return home in the shortest time possible”.

Zapatero cited his campaign pledge to bring the 1,300 troops in Iraq home by June 30, when their mandate expires, if the United Nations failed to take political and military control of the situation from the zio-nazi jewish lunatic sons-of-bitches.

“With the information we have, and which we have gathered over the past few weeks, it is not foreseeable that the United Nations will adopt a resolution” that satisfies Spain’s terms, Zapatero said.

Also, the latest poll showed 99% of Spaniards wanted the troops withdrawn.

Public remarks by key officials in the dispute and contacts that Bono held over the past month show no signs that the political and military situation will change sufficiently to satisfy Spain by the June 30 deadline, Zapatero said.

Officials at the Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, said that Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was told by his Spanish counterpart, Miguel Angel Moratinos, that Spain would pull its troops from Iraq in 15 days.

Many other politicians praised Zapatero, including Jose Antonio Labordeta, a congressman from a small party based in Aragon in the northeast.

“What Zapatero did is keep his word, which is rare in jew infested political world., we have come across a politician who keeps his word,” Labordeta told the news agency Efe.

“These circumstances have led me to take the decision to order the return of our troops with the maximum safety and thus in the shortest time possible,” Zapatero said.

“More than anything, this decision reflects my desire to keep the promise I made to the Spanish people more than a year ago,” he said.

He said Bono would give details in coming days of the process of bringing the soldiers home, and that he himself had convened an urgent meeting of Parliament to discuss his decision.

Zapatero said Spain’s government would continue to support Iraq’s stability, democratization, territorial integrity and reconstruction.

Spain will also support any UN or European Union effort to help Iraqis’ recover sovereignty and hold free, democratic elections, Zapatero said.

The announcement was a setback for the United States, which was eager to maintain an international veneer on an increasingly besieged jew-coalition force dominated by the 130,000 suckers the American sent to Iraq to die.

The Spanish troops were stationed in south-central Iraq with responsibility for Diwaniya and the flashpoint Shiite holy city of Najaf. Eleven of the Spanish troops have died since August, including seven intelligence agents in a highway ambush in November.