{"id":66424,"date":"2005-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/05\/19\/louragan-galloway-ridiculise-le-maccarthysme-transatlantique\/"},"modified":"2005-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"louragan-galloway-ridiculise-le-maccarthysme-transatlantique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/05\/19\/louragan-galloway-ridiculise-le-maccarthysme-transatlantique\/","title":{"rendered":"L’ouragan Galloway ridiculise le maccarthysme transatlantique<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’ouragan Galloway ridiculise le maccarthysme transatlantique<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t19 mai 2005 La presse britannique en fait des gorges chaudes, m\u00eame si elle n’aime pas souvent George Galloway et exerce contre lui un ostracisme bien dans les m\u00e9thodes de l’establishment lib\u00e9ral et d\u00e9mocratique<\/a>. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 britannique anti-guerre et beau parleur est venu \u00e0 Washington moucher les dignes s\u00e9nateurs du Congr\u00e8s des Etats-Unis. La sc\u00e8ne valait son pesant d’or, ou bien de maccarthysme Effectivement, \u00e0 une question du pr\u00e9sident de la commission, le s\u00e9nateur r\u00e9publicain Norm Coleman, Galloway r\u00e9pondit : \u00ab Senator, I am not now nor have I ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf,<\/em> \u00bb Cette formule est un \u00e9cho des auditions de la commission des activit\u00e9s anti-am\u00e9ricaines, dont celle de Joe McCarthy, dans les ann\u00e9es 1940-1950, lorsque la question \u00e9tait pos\u00e9e au t\u00e9moin de savoir s’il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 ou s’il \u00e9tait membre du parti communiste, et o\u00f9 le t\u00e9moin r\u00e9pondait en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral: \u00ab I am not now nor have I ever been a member of Communist Party and neither has anyone on my behalf,<\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t \u00ab Stunning ferocity<\/em> \u00bb, ce mot de Julian Borger, du Guardian<\/a>, r\u00e9sume le comportement de Galloway face aux s\u00e9nateurs (lesquels n’\u00e9taient pas nombreux, quatre au d\u00e9but de l’audition, deux \u00e0 la fin, au contraire du public, tr\u00e8s nombreux, entre journalistes et \u00e9tudiants en politique venus prendre une le\u00e7on de d\u00e9mocratie). Un autre commentaire du m\u00eame Guardian<\/a> (excellent pour la couverture de cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement jubilatoire) nous fait go\u00fbter le sel de la chose sous un titre bienvenu (\u00ab Galloway and the mother of all invective<\/em> \u00bb), notamment les capacit\u00e9s peu communes de r\u00e9plique de Galloway: \u00ab The culture clash between Mr Galloway’s bruising style and the soporific gentility of senate proceedings could hardly have been more pronounced, and drew audible gasps and laughs of disbelief from the audience. I met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him, Mr Galloway went on. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns, and to give him maps the better to target those guns.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn autre passage int\u00e9ressant (il faudrait les citer tous) intervient lorsque Coleman interpelle Galloway sur la provenance de l’argent d’un donateur jordanien \u00e0 une organisation caritative qu’avait mise en place le d\u00e9put\u00e9 britannique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab In their cross-examination, the senators focused on Mr Galloway’s relationship with Fawaz Zureikat, a Jordanian businessmen with extensive dealings in pre-war Iraq who served as chairman of and as principal contributor to Mr Galloway’s charity, the Mariam Appeal. They suggested Mr Zureikat had been oil trading in his name, and the MP must have known about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Once more, the accused sought to turn the tables on his accusers. When Mr Coleman asked how he could have failed to be aware of Mr Zureikat’s oil deals, Mr Galloway turned the attention to Mr Coleman’s campaign fundraising.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb He said: Well, there’s a lot of contributors, I’ve just been checking your website…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Not many at that level, Mr Galloway, the senator interjected.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb No, let me assure you there are, Mr Galloway went on. I’ve checked your website. There are lots of contributors to your political campaign funds, I don’t suppose you ask any of them how they made the money they give you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Coleman stuck to his task. If I can get back to Mr Zureikat one more time, do you recall a time when you specifically had a conversation with him about oil dealings in Iraq?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb I’ve already answered that question,\u00a0\u00bb Mr Galloway replied. I can assure you, Mr Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, from a cake deal, from a bread deal or from any deal.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tAu-del\u00e0 de l’anecdote, pourtant bien croustillante, c’\u00e9tait donc une affaire de d\u00e9mocratie, ou une confrontation entre deux conceptions de la d\u00e9mocratie. (CNN a d\u00e9sign\u00e9 cette audition comme une \u00ab blistering attack on senators rarely heard or seen on Capitol Hill<\/em> \u00bb et Galloway \u00e9tait conscient du sens de son intervention \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard: \u00ab A jubilant Mr Galloway later told an American television interviewer that it marked a victory for the British parliamentary style over the more sedate senate.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGalloway est venu secouer un syst\u00e8me pompeux, conformiste \u00e0 un point qu’il transforme le patriotisme en une corv\u00e9e assommante et en un bouclier contre les questions embarrassantes (\u00ab Mr Galloway used anti-war rhetoric far more raw than most politicians are accustomed to in America, where shared patriotism normally trumps outrage<\/em> \u00bb), un syst\u00e8me ennuyeux au-del\u00e0 de tout (\u00ab the soporific gentility of senate proceedings<\/em> \u00bb), tous ces travers formels de la vie parlementaire am\u00e9ricaine qui dissimulent \u00e0 peine, ou bien au contraire portent t\u00e9moignage de la profonde corruption du syst\u00e8me. Il y avait la \u00ab low businesslike voice<\/em> \u00bb du s\u00e9nateur contrastant avec sa g\u00eane lorsque Galloway l’interpella sur l’origine de l’argent de ses donateurs, dans un \u00ab bruising style<\/em> \u00bb qui faisait trembler les vo\u00fbtes antiques et v\u00e9n\u00e9rables du S\u00e9nat. On pouvait alors se demander de quel c\u00f4t\u00e9 se trouvaient la vigueur et la clart\u00e9 de l’esprit entre le parlementaire venu de la vieille Europe et le s\u00e9nateur repr\u00e9sentant de l’American Dream<\/em> et de l’Am\u00e9rique toujours jeune.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGalloway a fascin\u00e9 le corps des journalistes am\u00e9ricains pr\u00e9sents en groupe compact, stup\u00e9faits de tant d’alacrit\u00e9 jusqu’\u00e0 en oublier le sens commun et les besoins naturels des gens. (\u00ab American reporters seemed as fascinated as the British media: at one point yesterday, before it was his turn to speak, Mr Galloway strode from the room, sending journalists of all nationalities rushing after him only to discover that he was going to the lavatory.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBien entendu, Galloway a utilis\u00e9 \u00e0 fond la situation irakienne, apr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rentes invectives aimablement lanc\u00e9es \u00e0 l’adresse des s\u00e9nateurs avant son audition (neo-cons<\/em>, Zionists<\/em>, pro-war lynch mob<\/em>) : \u00ab I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEn un mot et comme il l’avait promis, Galloway a \u00e9t\u00e9 parfait et \u00e9gal \u00e0 sa r\u00e9putation de pol\u00e9miste. Qu’il soit contest\u00e9 dans son pays (mais pas par les \u00e9lecteurs, si l’on en juge par son \u00e9lection triomphale du 5 mai), qu’il soit d’une position politique critiqu\u00e9e dans le monde politique britannique, tout cela n’a gu\u00e8re d’importance pour ce cas. C’est bien en repr\u00e9sentant d’une opinion britannique et europ\u00e9enne anti-guerre et exc\u00e9d\u00e9e par les pompeuses le\u00e7ons de moralisme d’une Am\u00e9rique belliciste et irresponsable qu’il a parl\u00e9 mardi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGalloway a donn\u00e9 une bonne mesure des diff\u00e9rences de tradition, de comportement et d’\u00e9tat d’esprit qui s\u00e9parent l’Am\u00e9rique et l’Europe. Cette sorte d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements anecdotiques a l’int\u00e9r\u00eat d’illustrer de fa\u00e7on frappante des faits fondamentaux, souvent \u00e9cart\u00e9s parce qu’ils paraissent trop simples, c’est-\u00e0-dire trop primaires, dans ce cas, le fait bien r\u00e9el de l’opposition fondamentale dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 que recouvrent les psalmodies rh\u00e9toriques et transatlantiques sur les valeurs communes. Le mot d\u00e9mocratie, quel que soit l’\u00e9tat assez pitoyable de la chose en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, recouvre des situations qui n’ont rien en commun lorsqu’on en vient \u00e0 comparer l’Am\u00e9rique et l’Europe sur un fait de la vie bien r\u00e9elle. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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