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Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Liat Radcliffe in London, Eric Pape in Paris, Stefan Theil in Berlin and Mike Elkin in Madrid)
The countdown to the war in Iraq had begun. The Coalition that would wage it--led by the United States and Britain--wanted one last summit before "shock and awe" commenced. To downplay the fact that most of the world, and Germany and France in particular, were opposed to the coming invasion, George W. Bush and Tony Blair sought a non-Anglo-American summit venue to provide at least a fig leaf of multilateralism to the war effort. Spain, perhaps? No: while the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was a crucial supporter of the war, ...