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Old 08-05-2017, 03:22 PM   #354 (permalink)
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How so? He was trying to equate the vote on the Iraq war with the vote on experimental drugs in a way to try and deflate the unanimous nature of the vote. He screwed the pooch using the phrase "close to unanimous".

77 to 23 is quite far removed from "close to unanimous".

See, even Frowny ****s up sometimes.
No, the point, my thick-headed friend, was that overwhelming political support for something doesn't mean it's not garbage. You're just being a pedant. And not a very good one.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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