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Também não é preciso exagerar: Iraq debacle creates crisis in Portugal: Durão Barroso represents a section of the Portuguese ruling elite that sees its interest best served by placing themselves under the wing of US imperialism. According to Mario de Queiroz of the Inter Press Service English News Wire, these layers ?are nostalgic for Portugal?s imperial past and the epic deeds of the country?s great navigators and wants to paint a rosy reconstruction of the past while highlighting the supposed errors committed by...granting the colonies independence overnight [after the 1974 revolution].?