Friday, February 28, 2003

Ultimately, after two hours of debate in the 180-year-old hall of the Oxford Union — a contrarian student body that famously declared in 1933 that it would "in no circumstances fight for its king and country" — the answer came down to a narrow 195-to-151 vote in America's favor.


America the Monster? Not Altogether, Oxford Says
"The United States is creating terrorism out of unilateralism and arrogance," said Alex
Betts, a British student speaker, who asked whether in fact it was "the Bush doctrine
that makes the United States the rogue state."

The theme was echoed by a Canadian, Andrew Zadel, who called the United States "powerful, dangerous and expansionist," rephrasing the American Constitution to begin, "We the people of America and to hell with everyone else."

Bob Marshall-Andrews, a legislator from the Labor Party of Mr. Blair, declared, "The America that we indict today is the illegitimate America of George W. Bush."

While no other country offered so much liberty to its own people, he said, "there is no other country that is so reviled for denying that liberty to other people."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/international/europe/28OXFO.html

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