Relations between Labour and its Spanish sister party, the Socialists, have been frosty after Mr Zapatero promised to pull Spain's troops out of Iraq and accused Britain and America of basing the war on "lies".
At the very least a long war of attrition lies ahead.
Some senior officials have concluded that unless serious efforts are made to halt the violence, a long war of attrition lies ahead that will severely hurt American interests in the region.
Such large crowds descended on City Hall in New York to see Hiram Cronk, the longest-lived veteran of the War of 1812, lying in state in May 1905 that 150 police officers had to be called to the scene to keep order, The New York Times reported.
The falsity of the opening adds a sordid layer to it all — but war, even scrubbed of lies, isn't pretty.
Others argue that Israel "engineered eve-of-war lies and deceptions.... to give Israel the excuse needed to launch its strike", such as presenting a group of "captured fedayeen" to journalists, who were in fact Israeli soldiers.
On the other hand, a big, sugary allegory in which a woman in a satiny dress representing peace is crowned by Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, while winged putti flutter about, and Mars, the god of war, lies in chains underfoot, falls far short of the kind of dynamism that Rubens could bring to such mythological symbolism.
Lies at the beginning of the war had become an assumption of lies long after the war had ended for everyone in the world but us.
For Andriy Kozinchuk, heading back to the front after spending weeks in Kiev trying to set up his psychological rehabilitation, the key to Ukraine's generation of soldiers surviving the psychological fallout of war lies in society itself.
I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.
