Yet again a reasonable principle is taken to irrational extremes, and again no allowance is made for charitable impulses.

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Once he endorses a principle that sounds reasonable to the average American, you know that he is working to undermine that principle.

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Nevertheless, having regard to the information on the negotiating history which I have been given and to the arguments of the US Administration which I heard in Washington, I accept that a reasonable case can be made that resolution 1441 is capable in principle of reviving the authorisation in 678 without a further resolution.

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