02-03-2003 17:38									#61
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quote: Originally posted by Frogger I suggest they vote for MPs who voted their conscience and against those who kissed US ass.

...because those who 'kissed US ass' could not possibly have been voting their conscience?

	02-03-2003 23:09									#62
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk ...because those who 'kissed US ass' could not possibly have been voting their conscience?

Not a chance.

If you hadn't noticed, I was engaging in a bit of rhetoric...

And I think you know what I mean. Plus, when 100 MPs vote against their own party you have to know that a significant number of the rest were going along out of party loyalty...

	02-03-2003 23:47									#63
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It seems that the vote was actually pretty close. the gov't missed something like 4 votes.

	03-03-2003 11:17									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel It seems that the vote was actually pretty close. the gov't missed something like 4 votes.

Yes, but the government has single-party control of nearly 2/3 of the seats in parliament (364 out of 550 seats, IIRC). They only mustered 261 "yes" votes; that's a pretty big revolt by the back-benchers. Most of the party members voting nay or abstaining come, not surprisingly, from the Southwest, from the areas with large Kurdish populations near the Iraqi border.