World's Dumbest Former Prime Minister

I hope I'm not the only one that sees the humor on this one.

But besides being an unrepentant liar, José María Aznar has to be the World's Dumbest Politician of the last decade.

I mean, he orders all the files from his office deleted and then he leaves the receipt for the little sabotage operation to the next government?

He did not have 12,000 Euros to pay the bill?

Couldn't he call one of his rabid Francoist followers to do the job without charging a penny?

I can see the media and the usual suspects scrambling to come up with how to justify Aznar's dark train of thought and how to disguise his idiocy to make him look like a perfect recipient of the Congressional Medal.

Read this note that appeared today at Berria English:

Zapatero accuses Aznar of lying and having files deleted

During a session of the Commission of Inquiry into the March 11 train bombs the Spanish Prime Minister accused the PP of a string of lies and said the attacks had not influenced the elections

Kristina Berasain

Before the commission of enquiry into the March 11 attacks yesterday the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez-Zapatero, accused the PP Populart Party of telling “huge lies” and denied that the attacks had influenced the outcome of the elections. The Chairman of the PSOE - Spanish Socialist Party took two thirty-minute breaks during his marathon appearance in the Congress or lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament. Eduardo Zaplana, the PP spokesman, grilled Zapatero for nearly five hours. Zapatero lamented the fact that the PP members had not “come to terms with” losing the elections and had deleted all the files during their period in office. He proposed to all the parties that a pact should be struck to confront “international terrorism”.

The head of the Spanish Government said during his appearance that the PP-Popular Party had had all the files relating to its two periods in office deleted. “There are no papers nor a single computer document.” An invoice for 12,000 euros had been received indicating that a company had deleted all the hard discs and backup copies relating to the presidency. He complained that the documents deleted included the ones on matters dealt with between March 11 and 14, so it was not possible to know anything about that. “They deleted everything and there is nothing but the invoice.”

Zapatero told Aznar’s team they had not yet come to terms with losing the elections: “We still have not heard an ounce of self-criticism from them and while they fail to acknowledge their mistakes, they won’t get over the trauma.” He reiterated again and again that the attacks had not affected the outcome of the elections: “It is a mistake to stick to that theory; in fact, it is wrong to acknowledge that terrorists are capable of bringing about political change.”

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