{"id":65275,"date":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/10\/03\/the-secretary-of-the-retroactivity-of-the-law\/"},"modified":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","slug":"the-secretary-of-the-retroactivity-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/10\/03\/the-secretary-of-the-retroactivity-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secretary of the Retroactivity of the Law<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of the Retroactivity of the Law<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t3 octobre 2002 Le texte ci-dessous, publi\u00e9 par le quotidien australien The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> nous pr\u00e9sente de fa\u00e7on pr\u00e9cise la plus r\u00e9cente manipulation de Donald Rumsfeld, le secr\u00e9taire am\u00e9ricain \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense. Celui-ci s’av\u00e8re comme un des plus remarquables manipulateurs et jongleurs de mots de l’actuelle administration, un remarquable acteur de la transformation du monde according to GW<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa d\u00e9marche de Rumsfeld consiste \u00e0 transformer r\u00e9troactivement la substance de la mission des vols US et UK dans la no-fly zone<\/em>. (La mission de ces vols \u00e9tait \u00ab to protect Iraqi Shi’ites and Kurds from air attacks by the Iraqi military<\/em> \u00bb.) Ces vols deviennent des vols d’inspection des armements irakiens, selon la logique martel\u00e9e par le secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense, et, au fond, les choses se mettant bien, pourquoi ne pas consid\u00e9rer ces missions dans le cadre de l’actuelle pouss\u00e9e diplomatique pour les nouvelles inspections de l’ONU ? Or, il y a des tirs irakiens contre ces vols (\u00e9videmment, puisque ces vols eux-m\u00eames sont du type \u00ab offensif-agressif<\/em> \u00bb dans le jargon USAF, et l’on sait ce que cela signifie). Donc, il est manifeste que les Irakiens tirent sur des inspecteurs. Il est dor\u00e9navant prouv\u00e9 que les Irakiens violent d\u00e9j\u00e0, par anticipation pourrait-on dire, l’accord qu’ils ont pr\u00e9tendument donn\u00e9 pour des inspections de l’ONU.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’usage d’une nouvelle cat\u00e9gorie qu’on pourrait nommer s\u00e9mantique cynique est remarquable chez Rumsfeld. Toujours selon cette m\u00eame logique martel\u00e9e, Rumsfeld d\u00e9taille 67 incidents r\u00e9cents<\/a>, slides<\/em> et chairman of the JCS (g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Myers) \u00e0 l’appui, au cours desquels les Irakiens ont tir\u00e9 vers les avions am\u00e9ricains et britanniques, apportant la preuve de l’exactitude de la supputation selon laquelle les Irakiens ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 viol\u00e9 tous les engagements pass\u00e9s et, \u00e9videmment, qu’ils ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 viol\u00e9, par un acte de remarquable prescience, tous les engagements \u00e0 venir. Cela est nomm\u00e9 (par le Washington Times<\/em>) : \u00ab proof of Iraq defiance<\/em> \u00bb. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl s’agit d’une d\u00e9marche remarquable et tr\u00e8s sophistiqu\u00e9e dans l’usage de la r\u00e9troactivit\u00e9 des lois, puisque la loi est transform\u00e9e par rapport \u00e0 ce qu’elle \u00e9tait dans son application, et proclam\u00e9e r\u00e9troactive de facto<\/em>dans cette nouvelle interpr\u00e9tation. (Notre titre devrait \u00eatre : \u00ab The secretary of the sophisticated retroactivy of the Law<\/em> \u00bb, avec la r\u00e9serve que nous n’avons pas trouv\u00e9 le mot retroactivity<\/em> dans notre dictionnaire et nous l’avons cr\u00e9e en prenant le risque du n\u00e9ologisme). L’interpr\u00e9tation de la loi est manipul\u00e9e, tous les actes qui en d\u00e9pendent sont alors revus selon la manipulation. C’est une sorte de th\u00e9\u00e2tre gracieux de refondation s\u00e9mantique du monde.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t[Tout de m\u00eame, notre avis est que Rumsfeld enrage. Nous jurerions qu’il estime que toutes ces palinodies onusiennes sont inutiles, qu’il pense que l’ONU est inutile, que l’intervention de l’ONU dans le processus menant \u00e9videmment \u00e0 l’attaque de l’Irak est encore une manipulation de ce chicken<\/em> (sans hawk<\/em>) de Colin Powell et qu’elle est rien que moins que tra\u00eetresse, voire tout simplement relaps. Rumsfeld traite donc l’ONU et ses salades avec la d\u00e9sinvolture qui sied. Cela dit entre nous.] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tRumsfeld rewrites UN policy on Iraq October 2 2002, The Sidney Morning herald<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUS and British warplanes enforcing \u00a0\u00bbno-fly\u00a0\u00bb zones over Iraq are performing \u00a0\u00bbaerial\u00a0\u00bb weapons inspections under a United Nations resolution, according to the United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMr Rumsfeld’s statement expands the stated mission of the air patrols, which had previously been justified as necessary to protect Iraqi Shi’ites and Kurds from air attacks by the Iraqi military. But Mr Rumsfeld, briefing reporters at the Pentagon, argued that the no-fly zones, which were established after the end of the Gulf War in 1991, have existed to protect Iraqi citizens under UN Resolution 688 and to perform \u00a0\u00bbaerial inspections\u00a0\u00bb under UN Resolution 687.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbThese are new interpretations,\u00a0\u00bb said Kenneth Pollack, the director of research at Brookings Institution’s Saban Centre for Middle East Policy. \u00a0\u00bbThe no-fly zones were established to enforce 688 – to protect the Iraqi people from the depredations of the regime. This is the first time the US Government has ever tied them to enforcement of the inspection provisions of 687.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMr Pollack, a former CIA analyst who served on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, said he thought Mr Rumsfeld’s position would be hard for the Bush Administration to sell to the international community, particularly when Russia and the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, have said US and British enforcement of no-fly zones is not sanctioned by either resolution 687 or 688. \u00a0\u00bbAt a moment when the entire world thinks this Administration is hell bent on attacking Saddam, [Rumsfeld is] trying to take another aspect of Iraq policy and weld it on to inspections,\u00a0\u00bb Mr Pollack said. \u00a0\u00bbIt’s certainly going to look cynical to many foreign governments.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMr Rumsfeld said enforcement of the northern and southern no-fly zones had been the \u00a0\u00bbair components\u00a0\u00bb of the UN inspections regime, which ended in 1998 when inspectors withdrew. \u00a0\u00bbAerial inspections, however, continued,\u00a0\u00bb Mr Rumsfeld said. \u00a0\u00bbAs coalition aircraft attempt to enforce the no-fly zones, they conduct aerial surveillance to help determine compliance with UN resolutions 688 and 687, which bans nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMr Rumsfeld dismissed criticism by Russia’s foreign ministry that recent attacks by US and British warplanes enforcing the no-fly zones against Iraqi air defences had made it more difficult for UN efforts to resume weapons inspections in Iraq. He said the attacks had come in response to shooting at coalition warplanes by Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries. He was backed by Air Force General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who released video footage of Iraqi anti-aircraft and surface-to-air missiles being fired at coalition jets. He also released statistics showing Iraq had fired at coalition aircraft 67 times in September, including nine times last weekend.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWhile coalition rules of engagement allow warplanes to target communications centres in response to hostile fire, Mr Rumsfeld recently directed them to place more emphasis on those installations when returning fire.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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