Un lecteur (\u00ab\u00a0Gazel\u00a0\u00bb, sur le Forum du jour<\/a>) nous signale le cas des d\u00e9clarations du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral britannique Michael Rose (dans un documentaire sur la TV britannique Channel Four<\/em>) sur le site IRIB News<\/a>. On retrouve ces m\u00eames d\u00e9clarations sur le site de The Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « A leading British Army officer believes Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for his role in the war in Iraq, the Mail on Sunday reported. General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, was quoted by the right-of-centre Mail on Sunday as saying: \u00ab\u00a0I think the politicians should be held to account … my view is that Blair should be impeached. That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject of taking a country into war.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » A high-profile resignation of a senior armed forces officer before the start of the March 2003 conflict may also have made the British Government think twice before sending troops to the Gulf, he added. \u00ab\u00a0I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rose fut un des g\u00e9n\u00e9raux britanniques de la phase bosniaque (1993-95) de la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie. Il travailla dans des conditions chaotiques dans le m\u00eame environnement que les g\u00e9n\u00e9raux Jean-Pierre Cot (fran\u00e7ais) et Francis Briquemont (belge). L’entente personnelle entre les trois hommes, comme, d’une fa\u00e7on plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, l’entente op\u00e9rationnelle entre les trois contingents nationaux, fut excellente. Rose est rest\u00e9 fameux pour des d\u00e9m\u00eal\u00e9s \u00e0 peine feutr\u00e9s avec les Am\u00e9ricains d’AFSOUTH (OTAN mais commandement U.S. Navy), qui ne r\u00eavaient que d’interventions a\u00e9riennes sur Sarajevo et alentour. Rose quitta l’arm\u00e9e britannique (retraite) peu apr\u00e8s cette \u00e9trange campagne et publia un livre sur son exp\u00e9rience bosniaque (Fighting for Peace<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Son intervention est significative. Si elle n’exprime pas une opinion corporatiste, elle t\u00e9moigne indirectement d’une lassitude et d’une col\u00e8re grandissantes des cadres sup\u00e9rieurs des arm\u00e9es britanniques et am\u00e9ricaines devant les d\u00e9cisions des pouvoirs civils correspondants. (D’une certaine fa\u00e7on, on pourrait juger que les remous dans l’U.S. Army<\/a> r\u00e9pondent \u00e0 des sentiments similaires.) Les chefs militaires anglo-saxons sont soumis, avec l’Irak, \u00e0 des conditions internes de g\u00e2chis et d’incoh\u00e9rence difficilement supportables. La chose aura sur le long terme de graves cons\u00e9quences. Reste \u00e0 voir si des incidents \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur de leurs chaînes de commandement, comme sur le terrain, ne pourraient pas provoquer une tension soudaine qui mettrait \u00e0 jour de fa\u00e7on dramatique ces antagonismes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mis en ligne le 8 janvier 2006 \u00e0 16H16<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Rose et la responsabilit\u00e9 de la guerre Un lecteur (\u00ab\u00a0Gazel\u00a0\u00bb, sur le Forum du jour) nous signale le cas des d\u00e9clarations du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral britannique Michael Rose (dans un documentaire sur la TV britannique Channel Four) sur le site IRIB News. 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