{"id":67581,"date":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/mais-pourquoi-blair-ne-va-t-il-pas-chercher-sa-medaille\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","slug":"mais-pourquoi-blair-ne-va-t-il-pas-chercher-sa-medaille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/mais-pourquoi-blair-ne-va-t-il-pas-chercher-sa-medaille\/","title":{"rendered":"Mais pourquoi Blair ne va-t-il pas chercher sa m\u00e9daille?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le 17 juillet 2003, Blair connut la cons\u00e9cration de sa vie f\u00e9erique. Il fut f\u00eat\u00e9 par le Congr\u00e8s des Etats-Unis comme Churchill avait lui-m\u00eame \u00e9t\u00e9 f\u00eat\u00e9. Blair apprit qu’il recevrait, \u00e9galement comme Churchill, la M\u00e9daille d’Honneur du Congr\u00e8s. (Effectivement, Churchill et Blair sont les deux seuls Britanniques \u00e0 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 honor\u00e9s de la sorte par le Congr\u00e8s, et Blair est le 18\u00e8me citoyen non-US \u00e0 la recevoir.) Cette annonce \u00e9tait bien s\u00fbr symbolique. Il restait \u00e0 recevoir r\u00e9ellement l’objet, au cours d’une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie qui ent\u00e9rinerait l’immense honneur annonc\u00e9 le 17 juillet 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNon, disons plut\u00f4t : il reste \u00e0 recevoir, car Tony Blair n’a pas encore \u00e9t\u00e9 chercher sa m\u00e9daille. \u00c9tonnement de Iain Hollingshead dans The Guardian<\/a> : qu’attend donc Tony Blair? Nelson Mandela avait mis 56 jours pour aller chercher la sienne, Jean-Paul II, 165 jours. Blair a donc battu tous les records. Lors de question sur le sujet, ici et l\u00e0, il s’est montr\u00e9 \u00e9vasif : \u00ab Last December, Blair brushed aside a parliamentary question on the topic, saying he had one or two other things to do at the moment. A Downing Street spokesman now confirms there are no current plans to pick it up. Conservative commentators have complained that this is a snub to the American people.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEt Hollingshead d’expliquer: \u00ab When, on July 17 2003, Blair became the fourth British prime minister to address the US Congress, it was widely thought that he would collect the medal at the same time. In retrospect, it was probably fortunate that he didn’t. The weapons expert David Kelly was found dead within hours of the speech.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Rumours began which have never since disappeared that the real reason for the delay is the ongoing homegrown concern over the Iraq war and the special relationship with America. There was plenty of substance behind the prime minister’s self-deprecating joke to Congress that its warm welcome was more than I deserve, and more than I’m used to. Picking up a medal in Washington while British soldiers continue to die in Iraq is unlikely to go down well.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est probable qu’il faudra attendre son d\u00e9part de Downing Street pour voir Blair enfin aller recueillir son bien. Possible qu’\u00e0 cette occasion il choisisse la libert\u00e9, comme on faisait au bon vieux temps de la Guerre froide, et qu’il reste l\u00e0-bas, au milieu des siens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 23 mai 2006 \u00e0 09H30<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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