{"id":67020,"date":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/11\/18\/suivez-bien-washington-les-digues-sont-en-train-de-ceder\/"},"modified":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"suivez-bien-washington-les-digues-sont-en-train-de-ceder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/11\/18\/suivez-bien-washington-les-digues-sont-en-train-de-ceder\/","title":{"rendered":"Suivez bien Washington : les digues sont en train de c\u00e9der<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suivez bien Washington : les digues sont en train de c\u00e9der<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t18 novembre 2005 Le vote bipartisan du Congr\u00e8s de mardi est salu\u00e9 par le s\u00e9nateur r\u00e9publicain Chuck Hagel comme \u00ab un tournant historique<\/em> \u00bb. C’est une l\u00e9gislation anti-Bush sur l’Irak (voir plus loin) qui est ainsi salu\u00e9e par un r\u00e9publicain respect\u00e9. \u00ab Le barrage a c\u00e9d\u00e9<\/em> \u00bb, observe The Independent<\/em> en rapportant la premi\u00e8re condamnation explicite de la guerre d’Irak par l’ancien pr\u00e9sident Clinton<\/a>. Venue du prudent Clinton, qui n’aime rien moins que peaufiner son image de jeune-vieux sage en ne heurtant surtout pas l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien tout en gardant le vernis de libert\u00e9 du progressisme dont il reste quelques \u00e9cailles chez certains d\u00e9mocrates am\u00e9ricains, venue de lui, certes, cette condamnation est un autre tournant historique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab The dam has burst. Former president Bill Clinton’s verdict that the war in Iraq was a big mistake is echoing around the world.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes d\u00e9mocrates sortent du bois, accompagn\u00e9s de nombre de r\u00e9publicains qui, d\u00e9sormais, ne supportent plus le comportement de l’administration GW (\u00ab Enough is enough<\/em> \u00bb, dit-on d\u00e9sormais). Psychologiquement plus que politiquement, la psychologie est une fois de plus essentielle ici, nous avons peut-\u00eatre pass\u00e9 ce tournant historique. M\u00eame les centres politiques le plus psychologiquement corrompus peuvent \u00eatre port\u00e9s au seuil de l’\u00e9coeurement d’eux-m\u00eames. Il semble que c’est le cas. Cheney attaque fielleusement les parlementaires qui votent des lois bipartisanes faites pour entraver l’action du gouvernement ; John Kerry, autre prudent d\u00e9mocrate avec quelques \u00e9cailles d’une dignit\u00e9 restante, riposte avec m\u00e9pris: \u00ab Few people have less credibility than Mr Cheney, who said before the war that Saddam was reconstituting nuclear weapons, and the US invaders would be greeted with garlands.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe Independent<\/em> \u00e9crit : \u00ab On Tuesday, US senators voted 79-19 to endorse a Republican amendment demanding a regular accounting for the war from the Bush administration. Not only was it a bilateral statement that things could not go on as they were, it came at the moment Mr Bush was in Asia, thanking Japan, South Korea and Mongolia for their contributions to coalition forces in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb From foreign soil, Mr Bush fired back at his Democratic critics, accusing them of playing politics in America, with their charges that his administration had distorted pre-war WMD intelligence. In short, a foreign trip by a sitting president no longer guarantees a cessation of hostilities at home; indeed this time it has only served to stoke them.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab […] in another stunning development, John Murtha, an old-school Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania of 30 years’ standing, demanded an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, because they have become the target. A decorated marine veteran and ranking Democrat on the House defence appropriations subcommittee, Mr Murtha has been a hawk on military matters, and voted for the 2003 invasion. But close to tears at times in a press conference, he said he had changed his mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It is time for a change in direction. Our military is suffering, the future of our country is at risk. We cannot continue on the present course. It is evident that continued military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the US, the Iraqi people or the Persian Gulf region. His call for an immediate redeployment not only flies in the face of the refusal of the White House to set any date for a draw-down of American forces. Mr Murtha went further even than liberal Democrats, who mostly go no further than seeking a timetable for a phased pull-out of the 160,000 US troops in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The latest polls show that up to two-thirds of Americans now oppose the war.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWashington d\u00e9bouche sur le cur incandescent de la crise, que le scandale Plamegate et le d\u00e9bat indigne sur la torture institutionnalis\u00e9e ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 chauffer \u00e0 blanc. La clef de tout ce qui nous a jet\u00e9s dans ce tournant sur les chapeaux de roue, c’est la d\u00e9bandade, au sens propre du mot, qu’on voit secouer les rangs des r\u00e9publicains. Les parlementaires r\u00e9publicains ne sont plus une bande au service d’une administration qui fait une politique stupide et insupportable du poids des mensonges \u00e9cul\u00e9s et ressass\u00e9s. Les r\u00e9publicains commencent \u00e0 songer \u00e0 ce minimum de dignit\u00e9 qui importe pour parvenir \u00e0 boucler, au milieu de l’oc\u00e9an de la corruption, une \u00e9lection d’une fa\u00e7on acceptable. (On parle ici des \u00e9lections de mid-term<\/em>, en novembre prochain.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCertains, qui tentent de garder leur sang-froid, tentent de contenir ce flot irr\u00e9sistible. Le tr\u00e8s sage International Herald Tribune du jour<\/a>, qui parle d’une guerre des mots sur l’Irak, qui para\u00eet \u00e0 Washington bien plus intense que la r\u00e9elle, rapporte sans beaucoup d’enthousiasme ni trop d’espoir: \u00ab As the rhetoric grew more intense, two senior Republican senators, John Warner of Virginia and Ted Stevens of Alaska, urged their colleagues to show restraint, saying criticism of the war could only hurt U.S. troops in Iraq<\/em> \u00bb Tout le monde se fout de Ted Stevens, le vieux s\u00e9nateur de l’Alaska archi-corrompu par le complexe militaro-industriel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe m\u00e9contentement n’est pas sectoriel (l’Irak), comme on dit. Il touche les us et coutumes d’une administration qu’on ne supporte plus, moins pour ses actes d’apparent autoritarisme que pour sa pratique jusqu’\u00e0 la naus\u00e9e d’une dialectique du mensonge qui finit par tout corrompre. Il y a une fatigue psychologique de l’acte de l’administration GW Bush \u00e0 Washington. (Preuve que cette fatigue d\u00e9passe tout et transcende tout : \u00ab And on Thursday, 22 House Republicans joined united Democrats in rejecting a $142 billion spending bill for health, education and social programs. Democrats said that the program would slash health-care funding and would cut education for the first time in years.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tO\u00f9 tout cela m\u00e8ne-t-il? Rien n’est pr\u00eat, aucune politique de retrait d’Irak, aucune exit strategy<\/em> ou autre chose du m\u00eame tonneau. Voire, en cas du pire, rien n’est pr\u00eat pour une crise majeure qui interromprait la course chaotique de l’actuel pr\u00e9sident. (Horreur! Imaginez-vous un GW Bush destitu\u00e9, car le nouveau pr\u00e9sident des USA serait Dick Cheney?!) Alors: Bush aux ordres d’un Congr\u00e8s furieux qui prendrait le pouvoir? Mais l’on sait que GW est un homme simple qui ne c\u00e8de sur rien de ses convictions d’homme simple. GW a l’acier de ses convictions simples. Le Congr\u00e8s ne le fera pas reculer ; s’il recule, ce sera pieds et poings li\u00e9s, ou destitu\u00e9, s’il accepte la destitution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNul ne sait o\u00f9 nous allons. Mais si nous y allons, ce sera pire que le Watergate La d\u00e9mocratie am\u00e9ricaine est prisonni\u00e8re du syst\u00e8me de m\u00e9canique politique qui a engendr\u00e9 ce monstre, cette horreur politique absolue qu’est l’administration GW.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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