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«O petróleo esteve no centro [da decisão norte-americana de invadir o Iraque], não para benefício exclusivo das companhias americanas, mas para alimentar o mercado mundial de petróleo, incluindo o dos Estados Unidos. Não acho que Bush tenha sido pressionado pelo sector petrolífero para invadir o Iraque e até podemos argumentar que essas mesmas empresas estariam hoje melhor se a ofensiva não tivesse tido lugar. Só que muito americanos, incluindo o Presidente, acreditam ter direito a gasolina barata e querem manter o fluxo de petróleo a baixo preço. Nesse sentido, Saddam Hussein era uma ameaça e foi uma das razões para invadirmos o Iraque.»
«Yet when Mr Buttiglione protests that he is being persecuted for his thoughts not his actions, he is being disingenuous. He is a lifelong member of a conservative organisation, Communion and Liberation, that is known for seeking to bring religious values into political life. After being made Europe minister in 2001, Mr Buttiglione astonished colleagues with a string of demands that went far beyond his remit. Within days, he had called for a ban on artificial insemination, for state funding for private schools and for payments to women who rejected abortions.»Como era fácil de adivinhar...
«In 2000, Bush said his favourite supreme court justices were the ultraconservatives, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. If he named four more in their image, giving them a majority on the court, then the face of modern America could be changed within a few years.
Such a bench would no longer deem abortion a constitutional right; it would allow individual states to ban it, which they would do, across swathes of the country. If past Scalia-Thomas decisions are any guide, laws on everything from clean air to access for the disabled, affirmative action for ethnic minorities to gay rights would all be struck down. (When the supreme court last year heard the case of a gay man arrested for having sex in his own home, Scalia and Thomas sided against the man and with the police.) Crucially, Thomas has argued that the Constitution's ban on established religion might not apply to the individual states.»