{"id":65657,"date":"2003-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/29\/le-chaos-irakien-sest-installe-a-londres\/"},"modified":"2003-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"le-chaos-irakien-sest-installe-a-londres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/29\/le-chaos-irakien-sest-installe-a-londres\/","title":{"rendered":"Le chaos irakien s’est install\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le chaos irakien s’est install\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t29 juin 2003 La vie politique londonienne est devenue passionnante \u00e0 suivre, avec des rebondissements, des auditions, des r\u00e9v\u00e9lations, de nouvelles batailles qui s’ajoutent \u00e0 celles en cours, etc. C’est une situation sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, o\u00f9 l’intensit\u00e9 de l’avant-guerre, des mois de janvier \u00e0 mars, est en train de le c\u00e9der \u00e0 celle de l’apr\u00e8s-guerre. Depuis la mi-mai, Londres, les Communes, le gouvernement, la presse vivent au rythme de la question des WMD irakiennes (celles qu’on ne trouve pas) et, au-del\u00e0, de la grande question qui ne cesse d’\u00eatre remise d’actualit\u00e9 \u00e0 mesure des incidents en Irak et des pertes subies l\u00e0-bas (notamment la mort de 6 soldats britanniques cette semaine) : pourquoi le Royaume-Uni est-il parti en guerre contre l’Irak ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe rebondissement de cette semaine, c’est bien s\u00fbr l’apparition sur le devant de la sc\u00e8ne du conseiller sp\u00e9cial de Tony Blair pour les communications, Alastair Campbell, l’homme qui s’occupait de l’exploitation publique des dossiers sur l’Irak que lui fournissaient les services de renseignement. Campbell est venu t\u00e9moigner devant la Commission des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des Communes, qui enqu\u00eate sur les WMD irakiennes. Campbell a reconnu certaines de ses erreurs mais il a violemment contre-attaqu\u00e9 sur un point, en mettant directement en cause un journaliste de la BBC, Andrew Giliggan. La BBC a ripost\u00e9 en prenant fait et cause pour son journaliste, puis Giliggan lui-m\u00eame menace de porter plainte<\/a>, en pr\u00e9cisant qu’il est compl\u00e8tement soutenu par sa direction. L’affaire irakienne se double donc d’un conflit entre la BBC et le gouvernement. Ce conflit pourrait venir devant les tribunaux o\u00f9, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, on examinerait d’un point de vue juridique certaines conditions de l’entr\u00e9e en guerre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tToute la presse londonienne est derri\u00e8re cette affaire aux multiples aspects (The Independent de ce jour<\/a> donne un des meilleurs r\u00e9sum\u00e9s de la situation). Cette multiplicit\u00e9 est elle-m\u00eame garante de nouveaux \u00e9pisodes \u00e0 venir, pour la publication de tel rapport (celui d’une Commission secr\u00e8te des Communes sur le renseignement) ou de tel autre (celui de la Commission des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des Communes), pour les suites de la bataille entre le gouvernement (Blair et Campbell) et la BBC, avec les excuses publiques demand\u00e9es par l’une et l’autre partie, et\/ou la plainte du journaliste Andrew Giliggan, voire pour les suites \u00e9ventuelles de r\u00e9v\u00e9lations d’un ancien haut fonctionnaire am\u00e9ricain, qui viennent d’\u00eatre publi\u00e9es.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUne certitude qui appara\u00eet chaque jour est que, malgr\u00e9 les incidences diverses, l’attention demeure port\u00e9e sur la question centrale des causes de la guerre, et notamment des WMD. L’intention de Campbell, en attaquant la BBC, \u00e9tait-elle de d\u00e9tourner l’attention ? (Ce n’est pas s\u00fbr, il y a aussi des questions personnelles dans cette affaire.) Au contraire : la bataille BBC-Campbell a \u00e9largi le champ de la bataille mais c’est toujours la m\u00eame bataille. Chacun songe continuellement \u00e0 rappeler la question centrale. The Independent<\/em> \u00e9crit :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab There is, however, a third way of looking at the whole debacle, which could be called the Robin Cook way. Mr Cook, who has established himself as the most incisive critic of the Iraq war, has had nothing to say in public about the more entertaining but less significant war, between Mr Campbell and the broadcasters. He is said to be privately irritated with the BBC for making too much out of something that may not be true and is not the main issue. For me, the real issue is that we were told things as a justification for war which have plainly turned out to be wrong since the war was over, Mr Cook said on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb He has compiled a list of claims made by the Government before it went to war, all of which remained unproven, including that Iraq had rebuilt its chemical weapons factories, was developing nuclear weapons, and was trying to buy uranium from Africa. All were in the definitive government document of last September, which Mr Blair and his communications director still insist was accurate, which was based on what the intelligence services said, and which provided the justification for war. All of those were in the September dossier, said Mr Cook. All of them were wrong.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tChaque jour qui passe fait s’interroger sur le calcul qui a pouss\u00e9 Tony Blair \u00e0 \u00e9pouser la cause de ce conflit jusqu’\u00e0 en perdre toute mesure, on le constate aujourd’hui dans les cons\u00e9quences de son action dans la vie publique londonienne, dans son parti, dans la presse. Le gouvernement est paralys\u00e9 et chaque jour affaibli. Ce qui est vant\u00e9 comme un facteur de puissance et de stabilit\u00e9 pour le Royaume-Uni l’alignement sur les USA s’av\u00e8re \u00eatre un irr\u00e9sistible facteur de d\u00e9sordre. Comme si la capacit\u00e9 de l’Am\u00e9rique \u00e0 installer le d\u00e9sordre partout o\u00f9 elle intervient valait aussi pour la situation interne de ses alli\u00e9s. Blair est toujours Premier ministre, mais dans quel \u00e9tat, et avec quelles perspectives ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour l’imm\u00e9diat, des menaces graves<\/a> de nouvelles d\u00e9stabilisations existent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The stakes are extremely high for both sides and it is hard to see how this can be resolved without major damage to one side or the other. Much now hangs on the findings of the foreign affairs select committee. And again, it is widely hoped in Westminster that whatever may be decided in the Campbell and BBC row, that is not allowed to detract from the committee’s wider findings on the pre-war conduct of the government.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It may not be that simple, of course. There is a separate inquiry being carried out entirely in private by the security and intelligence committee, which reports directly to Tony Blair who has the power to amend its findings. What is feared is that the two committees either fail to come to conclusions that will allow a definitive resolution of the row or that they contradict each other.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb That would almost certainly lead to more powerful demands for a full judicial inquiry. This extraordinary affair has some way to run yet.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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