You can't bomb a people just in case

Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today.

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

We are not the first, but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentleman, by two unstopable forces: freedom and equality.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.