spain "disinvites" american troops from columbus day parade, calls tony blair a dickhead

talk about insult to injury

they invited the french instead

"The Spanish defence minister, Jose Bono, told the COPE radio station there would be no Americans in this year's "fiesta nacional" which commemorates the day on which Christopher Columbus sighted the New World.

"... the minister then added that Spain was "no longer subordinated" and "kneeling" before Washington. "With Bush, peace and liberty have not exactly triumphed," he said.

"Mr Bono, who was once recorded calling Tony Blair "a complete dickhead" , has suggested French troops could appear as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Paris in 1945."

fact of the day: "dickhead" in spanish is "un gilipollas integral"