{"id":66331,"date":"2005-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/16\/comment-les-choses-vont-mieux-en-irak\/"},"modified":"2005-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"comment-les-choses-vont-mieux-en-irak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/16\/comment-les-choses-vont-mieux-en-irak\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment les choses vont mieux en Irak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>T\u00e9moignage int\u00e9ressant sur la situation en Irak, celui d&rsquo;un d\u00e9put\u00e9 d\u00e9mocrate (opposant \u00e0 la guerre), Jim McGovern, qui a fait une visite courant avril dans une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de huit parlementaires de la Chambre des Repr\u00e9sentants du Congr\u00e8s des \u00c9tats-Unis. Le titre de l&rsquo;article que McGovern fait para\u00eetre dans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&#038;s=mcgovern\" class=\"gen\">The Nation dat\u00e9 du 2 mai<\/a> est particuli\u00e8rement r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur, par son ironie, de la situation en Irak: \u00ab <em>What I Didn&rsquo;t See in Irak<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe t\u00e9moignage de McGovern est principalement consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;extraordinaire pression pesant sur tous les visiteurs, t\u00e9moins, etc., pour que leurs appr\u00e9ciations refl\u00e8tent la version d\u00e9sormais officielle : tout va mieux en Irak et tout va de mieux en mieux. L&rsquo;article de McGovern commence par cette phrase significative: \u00ab <em>Trust me when I tell you things are so much better in Iraq, said one US military official to me on my recent visit to that war-ravaged country.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tQuelques d\u00e9tails du voyage de McGovern suffisent \u00e0 fixer cette situation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab <em>And while US officials point to a declining number of coalition casualties, there is still an unacceptably high level of violence in Iraq. One military leader told us they can tell that things are changing for the better because when US helicopters fly over certain areas of Iraq, Iraqis wave. Well, I took a helicopter ride (it&rsquo;s too dangerous to drive) from the Baghdad airport to the Green Zone wearing an armored vest and sandwiched between two heavily armed American soldiers who were pointing their guns down at the ground. I suggested to the military leader that perhaps he was confusing a wave with a plea not to shoot.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>Our young men and women in uniform are performing their difficult duties extraordinarily well. Indeed, the only honest and direct responses I got from any American in Iraq were from the soldiers. They told me they had been instructed by their superiors not to share any complaints with visitors.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tEntre le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral qui demande qu&rsquo;on lui fasse confiance pour accepter sa fiction et le GI&rsquo;s qui confie au parlementaire qu&rsquo;on lui a donn\u00e9 ordre de n&rsquo;exprimer aucune appr\u00e9ciation d\u00e9favorable aupr\u00e8s des visiteurs, il y a \u00e9videmment la volont\u00e9 de monter une repr\u00e9sentation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, quasiment th\u00e9\u00e2trale de la situation en Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tOn doit s&rsquo;interroger sur le caract\u00e8re si syst\u00e9matique de cette repr\u00e9sentation, avec ses implications sur la situation r\u00e9elle (la repr\u00e9sentation \u00e9tant aussi bonne pour un GW Bush que pour un McGovern, et \u00e9videmment avec beaucoup plus d&rsquo;efficacit\u00e9 dans ses effets chez GW que chez McGovern). Il y a, au terme de cette technique telle qu&rsquo;elle est appliqu\u00e9e, une courte vue tr\u00e8s d\u00e9vastatrice dans ses effets secondaires. L&rsquo;\u00e9norme montage qui est fait dans cette repr\u00e9sentation permanente est tr\u00e8s vite mis \u00e0 jour, son \u00e9normit\u00e9 ne pouvant longtemps r\u00e9sister \u00e0 la puissance des faits et les autorit\u00e9s ne pouvant esp\u00e9rer tromper longtemps les divers McGovern visitant l&rsquo;Irak; ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne se reproduit \u00e0 chaque fois, sans apporter le moindre go\u00fbt d&rsquo;en tirer un enseignement. L&rsquo;effet r\u00e9el est, finalement, au travers de la perte de confiance dans les autorit\u00e9s officielles, une d\u00e9-l\u00e9gitimation de ces autorit\u00e9s qui doit conduire \u00e0 des situations tr\u00e8s dangereuses lorsque des conditions pressantes surgiront. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 16 avril 2005 \u00e0 09H35<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e9moignage int\u00e9ressant sur la situation en Irak, celui d&rsquo;un d\u00e9put\u00e9 d\u00e9mocrate (opposant \u00e0 la guerre), Jim McGovern, qui a fait une visite courant avril dans une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de huit parlementaires de la Chambre des Repr\u00e9sentants du Congr\u00e8s des \u00c9tats-Unis. Le titre de l&rsquo;article que McGovern fait para\u00eetre dans The Nation dat\u00e9 du 2 mai est&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1132],"class_list":["post-66331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-mcgovern"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}