Turks throw spanner in Bush's plan

[The Mad Monk]

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?

[KrazyHorse]

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...

[Az]

It seems that the vote was actually pretty close. the gov't missed something like 4 votes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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.