{"id":66263,"date":"2005-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/03\/16\/berlusconi-cede\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T00:00:00","slug":"berlusconi-cede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/03\/16\/berlusconi-cede\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi c\u00e8de<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlusconi c\u00e8de<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t16 mars 2005 Les Am\u00e9ricains ont-ils ou non pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9 leur attaque contre la journaliste Giuliana Sgrena, du Manifesto<\/em>, et ses lib\u00e9rateurs, tuant un officier du renseignement italien? La question devient secondaire devant l’annonce, par Berlusconi, de la d\u00e9cision de retrait<\/a> des troupes italiennes d’Irak (\u00e0 partir de septembre prochain).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(Quant aux conditions de l’attaque contre la voiture des SR italiens qui amenait Sgrena \u00e0 l’a\u00e9roport de Bagdad, on notera tout de m\u00eame des pr\u00e9cisions du journaliste Wayne Madsein, de Journal Online<\/em> dans un article paru hier<\/a>: \u00ab The Bush administration took specific legal steps that cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBien entendu, des am\u00e9nagements de langage et d’attitude sont prises, pour ne pas sembler faire tout \u00e0 fait ce que Berlusconi fait en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (c\u00e9der devant son opinion publique) et ne pas trop m\u00e9contenter Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday announced that he would begin withdrawing his country’s troops from Iraq in September under pressure from public opinion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tI’ve spoken to [Tony] Blair about this, he told a TV interviewer. We’ve got to construct a precise exit strategy. Public opinion expects it, and we shall be talking about it soon.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Berlusconi dropped his bombshell last night hours af ter Italy’s lower house of parliament, in which the prime minister’s supporters have an outright majority, approved funding for its contingent in Iraq until the end of June. Italian officials had already indicated troops would be withdrawn as soon as it was clear that Iraq could handle its own security. But Mr Berlusconi went much further than before in defining the outlines of a timetable. He said: A progressive reduction of the presence of our soldiers will start from September. He added that the phase-out would take place in agreement with our allies. He was careful not to let himself be pinned down to a finishing date, saying that would depend on the ability of the Iraqi government in equipping itself with adequate security and public order forces.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tL’important dans cette d\u00e9cision est qu’elle est clairement li\u00e9e aux pressions de l’opinion publique. Dans ce cas, c’est un concept assez vague: il n’y a pas de manifestations monstres et\/ou pressantes en Italie en ce moment. Il y en a eu pour l’enterrement de Calipari, mais tout le monde y participait.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’opposition a \u00e9t\u00e9 assez arrangeante avec Berlusconi lors du d\u00e9bat au Parlement sur l’affaire Sgrena. Il n’\u00e9tait alors pas question de retrait pr\u00e9matur\u00e9. Voici ce qu’\u00e9crivait le site WSWS<\/a> \u00e0 propos de cette s\u00e9ance au Parlement:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab In his statement last Wednesday, Berlusconi, one of Bush administration’s staunchest European allies, was compelled to walk a fine line. To deflect public anger, he challenged the US account and demanded maximum collaboration from Washington for closure of the incident that was so irrational and that caused so much sorrow. At the same time, he insisted our friendship with the United States is strong and loyal and ruled out any withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Berlusconi was helped out of his difficulties by the opposition parties. Significantly, his speech in the Italian Senate was greeted with a standing ovation, not only from his own right-wing supporters, but from the so-called centre-left opposition. Romano Prodi, who heads the opposition Olive Tree alliance, told the media that he appreciated the tone and measure employed by the prime minister today. It was a clear political signal to Berlusconi that he could count on the opposition not to rock the boat on the issue.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tBerlusconi a c\u00e9d\u00e9 moins devant des pressions que devant un climat m\u00e9diatique, une atmosph\u00e8re empoisonn\u00e9e, qu’on peut ressentir aujourd’hui encore plus devant les conditions des r\u00e9actions am\u00e9ricaines que devant le drame lui-m\u00eame. Bush a envoy\u00e9 un message \u00e0 Berlusconi, il lui a parl\u00e9, il a promis vaguement une enqu\u00eate commune. Rien de bien consistant et, comme d’habitude, une d\u00e9sinvolture syst\u00e9matique des Am\u00e9ricains. Si l’on ajoute les nouvelles, comme on l’a vu plus haut<\/a>, que les Am\u00e9ricains prennent des dispositions pour \u00e9viter que les hommes des Special Forces<\/em> soient inculp\u00e9s dans des affaires du type de celle qui a concern\u00e9 Giualiana Sgrena, on peut concevoir la vigueur de l’humiliation et de l’amertume ressenties par les Italiens. Ce point a sans aucun doute jou\u00e9, notamment par les effets sur l’opinion publique avant les \u00e9ch\u00e9ances \u00e9lectorales du d\u00e9but du mois prochain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBerlusconi n’a gu\u00e8re \u00e0 attendre de soutien de ses amis britanniques dans cette affaire. Le Guardian<\/em>, apr\u00e8s avoir mentionn\u00e9 l’affirmation de Berlusconi selon laquelle il d\u00e9termine une exit strategy<\/em> avec Tony Blair, ajoute ces pr\u00e9cisions montrant que les Britanniques se d\u00e9marquent compl\u00e8tement des Italiens pour garder ce qu’il leur reste de faveur des Am\u00e9ricains : \u00ab British defence sources last night repeated the British government’s stated policy that its troops will stay in Iraq as long as is necessary and as long as the Iraqis want us. Mr Berlusconi’s comments about a precise exit strategy were an aspiration or political guesswork, they added.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’alliance am\u00e9ricaine, per\u00e7ue comme une habilet\u00e9 supr\u00eame par l’habile Berlusconi, est en train de se retourner contre lui. Quelles que soient les pr\u00e9cautions oratoires et les dispositions sur le terrain qu’il prendra, il appara\u00eetra \u00e0 Washington chez tous les exalt\u00e9s qui font la pluie et le beau temps comme un l\u00e2che, un tra\u00eetre, comme un Italien en un mot, selon la batterie de clich\u00e9s servant de r\u00e9f\u00e9rences intellectuelles \u00e0 ces gens-l\u00e0. En Europe, il ne pourra compter sur l’indulgence de personne, les Britanniques le laissant tomber comme ils font d’habitude avec leurs alli\u00e9s en difficult\u00e9s. Berlusconi a oubli\u00e9, dans son habilet\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable, la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du comportement et de la psychologie des am\u00e9ricanistes de Washington: l’ignorance totale du monde ext\u00e9rieur, avec un d\u00e9sint\u00e9r\u00eat et une inattention confinant \u00e0 la pathologie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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