\t3 d\u00e9cembre 2004 Le deuxi\u00e8me aspect (apr\u00e8s celui des op\u00e9rations, envisag\u00e9 ce jour<\/a>) qui nous montre les Am\u00e9ricains pris dans le pi\u00e8ge irakien est leur indiff\u00e9rence aux pertes civiles que leurs forces causent, pertes qui sont consid\u00e9rables. Nous d\u00e9finissons cette attitude comme les Am\u00e9ricains pris dans le pi\u00e8ge irakien, dans la mesure o\u00f9 cette attitude conduit l’opinion publique US \u00e0 ignorer compl\u00e8tement la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du conflit irakien, favorisant du fait de l’absence de frein le domaine d’expansion des erreurs, des actes d’imprudence et d’inconscience de l’administration GW Bush, un domaine qui para\u00eet d\u00e9sormais illimit\u00e9. A son tour, l’enlisement am\u00e9ricain est lui aussi favoris\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Dans le Daily Star<\/a> de Beyrouth du 2 d\u00e9cembre \tLe professeur Sachs d\u00e9crit cette attitude am\u00e9ricaine \u00e0 propos de deux \u00e9v\u00e9nements, la publication d’une \u00e9valuation des pertes civiles en Irak par The Lancet<\/em> et l’attaque contre Falloujah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab American behavior and self-perceptions reveal the ease with which a civilized country can engage in large-scale killing of civilians without public discussion. In late October, the British medical journal Lancet published a study of civilian deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion began. The sample survey documented an extra 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths compared to the death rate in the preceding year, when Saddam Hussein was still in power – and this estimate did not even count excess deaths in Fallujah, which was deemed too dangerous to include.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb The study also noted that the majority of deaths resulted from violence, and that a high proportion of the violent deaths were due to U.S. aerial bombing. The epidemiologists acknowledged the uncertainties of these estimates, but presented enough data to warrant an urgent follow-up investigation and reconsideration by the Bush administration and the U.S. military of aerial bombing of Iraq’s urban areas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb America’s public reaction has been as remarkable as the Lancet study, for the reaction has been no reaction. On Oct. 29 the vaunted New York Times ran a single story of 770 words on page 8 of the paper. The Times reporter apparently did not interview a single Bush administration or U.S. military official. No follow-up stories or editorials appeared, and no Times reporters assessed the story on the ground. Coverage in other U.S. papers was similarly meager. The Washington Post, also on Oct. 29, carried a single 758-word story on page 16.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Recent reporting on the bombing of Fallujah has also been an exercise in self-denial. On Nov. 6, The New York Times wrote that \u00a0\u00bbwarplanes pounded rebel positions\u00a0\u00bb in Fallujah, without noting that \u00a0\u00bbrebel positions\u00a0\u00bb were actually in civilian neighborhoods. Another story in The Times on Nov. 12, citing \u00a0\u00bbmilitary officials,\u00a0\u00bb dutifully reported: \u00a0\u00bbSince the assault began on Monday, about 600 rebels have been killed, along with 18 American and 5 Iraqi soldiers.\u00a0\u00bb The issue of civilian deaths was not even raised.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPour poursuivre cette r\u00e9flexion de Sachs, nous ajouterons qu’en cette occurrence, le virtualisme est \u00e9galement total et qu’il rassemble dans une attitude similaire, dans ce cas \u00e9galement, une majorit\u00e9 du public am\u00e9ricain, des m\u00e9dias, et l’administration GW. On propose ici, rapidement, deux points confirmant ce jugement :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00a0Il n’y a pas de civils en Irak. (C’est-\u00e0-dire des civils innocents, c’est-\u00e0-dire : il n’y a pas d’innocents en Irak.) C’est ce qui est sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 dans cette phrase de Sachs : \u00ab Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00a0Il n’y a pas de critiques possibles d’une chose (les Am\u00e9ricains commettant des atrocit\u00e9s contre les civils) qui n’est pas possible. C’est ce qui est sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 dans cette remarque de Sachs concernant un \u00e9ditorial du Wall Street Journal<\/em> : \u00ab The Wall Street Journal actually wrote an editorial on Nov. 18 that criticized the critics, noting that whatever the U.S. did, its enemies in Iraq did worse, as if this excused American abuses.<\/em> \u00bb Il faut \u00e9tendre le propos \u00e0 sa r\u00e9elle signification, pour bien comprendre ce qu’il signifie de fondamental dans une psychologie am\u00e9ricaine compl\u00e8tement d\u00e9pendante d’une logique virtualiste, et il faut le faire en l’\u00e9tendant \u00e0 la pr\u00e9vision : quoi que feront<\/strong> les Am\u00e9ricains, les autres feront pire, justifiant, et m\u00eame innocentant l’acte des Am\u00e9ricains \u00e0 venir. (De m\u00eame, Donald Rumsfeld disait-il le 9 novembre, \u00e0 propos des pertes civiles \u00e0 venir \u00e0 Falloujah, qu’il n’y en aurait gu\u00e8re, et que, s’il y en avait tout de m\u00eame, la seule certitude serait qu’elles ne seraient pas du fait des forces US, comme le rapporta The Independent du 15 novembre<\/a> : \u00ab Mr Rumsfeld confidently asserted last week that civilians had been given guidance on how to avoid getting injured. He predicted that there would not be large numbers of civilians killed, and certainly not by US forces.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" En Irak, le pi\u00e8ge se referme (II) : les pertes civiles 3 d\u00e9cembre 2004 Le deuxi\u00e8me aspect (apr\u00e8s celui des op\u00e9rations, envisag\u00e9 ce jour) qui nous montre les Am\u00e9ricains pris dans le pi\u00e8ge irakien est leur indiff\u00e9rence aux pertes civiles que leurs forces causent, pertes qui sont consid\u00e9rables. 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