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Syria vote: Clarke suggests US wanted 'quick' UK decision
The White House wanted the UK to hold a "quick vote" on Syria amid the clamour for an international response to the use of chemical weapons, a Cabinet minister has suggested.
Ken Clarke told Channel 4 News "the Americans wanted us to make this vote very quickly" but the "trauma" of Iraq led to defeat for the call for action.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23961195
Huge fucking fail that one. 