\t3 janvier 2007 Nous vivons une \u00e9poque qui invite \u00e0 \u00e9laborer des th\u00e9ories de complots \u00e0 n’en plus finir, tant les actes qui nous sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s sont d’une maladresse difficilement croyable s’ils ne sont pas expliqu\u00e9s de cette fa\u00e7on. La pendaison exp\u00e9ditive et naturellement inhumaine, grossi\u00e8re, maladroite, de Saddam Hussein ne d\u00e9roge pas \u00e0 la r\u00e8gle. Ce n’est pas pour autant que nous adh\u00e9rons \u00e0 une th\u00e9orie d’un complot parce que nous avons une croyance sans fin en la th\u00e8se peut-\u00eatre th\u00e8se ultime du complot d\u00e9finitif selon laquelle notre \u00e9poque et notre syst\u00e8me favorisent au-del\u00e0 de tout la stupidit\u00e9, la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9, la cruaut\u00e9 et la grossi\u00e8ret\u00e9 dans les actes des gouvernements \u00e9tiquet\u00e9s d\u00e9mocratiques et de leurs adjoints du domaine de l’information officielle. Mais nous comprenons que l’id\u00e9e du complot puisse retenir l’attention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tQuant \u00e0 l’existence du crime, elle ne fait aucun doute. Nous ne parlons pas de celui de Saddam, dont on nous rebat les oreilles depuis que l’Am\u00e9rique a mis l’Irakien tout en haut sur la liste des m\u00e9chants, comme si l’esp\u00e8ce humaine avait enfin identifi\u00e9 le Diable et son train ; nous parlons du crime imb\u00e9cile et maladroit que fut sa pendaison.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLa chose est si \u00e9vidente qu’elle est proche de la caricature. On ne peut imaginer, apr\u00e8s le proc\u00e8s grotesque qu’on sait, circonstances si compl\u00e8tement promises \u00e0 provoquer une humeur de d\u00e9go\u00fbt et un mouvement de condamnation que celles de l’ex\u00e9cution. Le r\u00e9gime irakien et ses parrains am\u00e9ricanistes se sont acquis un peu plus la consid\u00e9ration m\u00e9prisante du reste du monde (the Rest Of the World<\/em>). Lorsque d’autres pr\u00e9cisions sont apport\u00e9es, notamment sur son comportement lorsqu’il \u00e9tait en captivit\u00e9<\/a>, Saddam appara\u00eet par comparaison comme un personnage digne et respectable. La transmutation du tyran en martyr a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e presque sans coup f\u00e9rir, effet catastrophique as usual<\/em> de la politique du virtualisme anglo-saxon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t L’effet collat\u00e9ral, du type dommage non contr\u00f4l\u00e9, est naturellement consid\u00e9rable. Une chronique dans le Guardian<\/a> de Ghada Karmi, chercheur \u00e0 l’Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies de l’universit\u00e9 d’Exeter, donne une bonne id\u00e9e de l’\u00e9motion critique soulev\u00e9e par l’ex\u00e9cution, notamment dans le monde arabe. La chose est droitement \u00e9crite et montre une indignation justifi\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe spectacle of Saddam Hussein’s execution, shown in pornographic detail to the whole world, was deeply shocking to those of us who respect propriety and human dignity. The vengeful Shia mob that was allowed to taunt the man’s last moments, and the vicious executioners who released the trapdoor while he was saying his prayers, turned this scene of so-called Iraqi justice into a public lynching. One does not have to be any kind of Saddam sympathiser to be horrified that he should have been executed – and, so obscenely, on the dawn of Islam’s holy feast of Eid al-Adha, which flagrantly defies religious practice and was an affront to the Islamic world.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor the Arab world, this has been a shameful, humiliating event that underlines its total surrender to western diktat. The execution was carried out under the auspices of a foreign occupying power, and with a clear western message: we give ourselves the right to invade a sovereign Arab state and remove its leader because he offends us; we think you Arabs are incapable of sorting out your own affairs in accordance with our interests, so we will do it for you.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Nous vous recommandons de lire la table ronde organis\u00e9e par l’excellente Any Goodman, sur Democracy Now !<\/em>, le 2 janvier<\/a>. Divers sujets sont abord\u00e9s par les invit\u00e9s, tous du plus grand int\u00e9r\u00eat, l’aspect l\u00e9gal du proc\u00e8s et de l’ex\u00e9cution, le point de vue kurde avec notamment un excellent rappel du r\u00f4le complice des USA avec le r\u00e9gime de Saddam Hussein jusqu’\u00e0 la guerre du Golfe de 1990-91, etc. On retiendra ici l’interpr\u00e9tation que donne le professeur Richard Falk (Professeur Emeritus de droit international \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Princeton et professeur attach\u00e9 \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Californie, \u00e0 Santa Barbara) de l’attitude des Etats-Unis dans cette affaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAMY GOODMAN:<\/em><\/strong> Well, talk about the timing and what it meant. And can you talk about the US role? I mean, <\/em>[Saddam] was killed in Iraqi custody, though that only happened in the last hours before he was executed, the transfer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tRICHARD FALK:<\/em><\/strong> Yes, precisely. As far as we know it is to some extent based on circumstantial evidence the US orchestrated the whole process and was very intent on accelerating both the reaching of judgment and now the announcement of the process that culminated in this execution. The timing of the verdict seemed connected with the American November elections. The timing now seems clearly connected with both the hope to divert attention from passing the 3,000-death threshold, as well a s and I think this is more important creating a possibility for President Bush to contend that this is that the United States is making progress in the Iraq war and that all that is required to achieve the goals that he has set some years ago is the patience of the American people and the support of Congress when he unfurls this new turn in American policy, which is expected to include the recommendation of or the decision to send an additional 20,000 to 30,000 American troops to Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAMY GOODMAN:<\/em><\/strong> Now, the New York Times had a front-page piece yesterday, on January 1st, saying that the US felt that Iraq was rushing the execution. You’re making the opposite case in a piece you wrote, The Flawed Execution of Saddam Hussein, that the US was trying to speed it up.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tRICHARD FALK:<\/em><\/strong> Well, yes. It may be that at the very last moment, because it became so clear that this was going to be a very ugly, ugly way of handling the execution, that there was an attempt to make it conform at least to Iraqi internal law, which had, as far as we know, required that no execution be carried out during an Islamic holiday, and the Saturday when Saddam Hussein was executed was the first day of the Eid holiday, which is the most sacred day in the Islamic liturgical calendar and a holiday that is supposedly dedicated to the ethical theme of forgiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAnd beyond that, there was clearly the sense that the execution should be carried out in a manner that doesn’t deepen the sense that this is an incident in internal sectarian strife within Iraq, rather than a matter of rendering justice. So I think the people in Iraq got very nervous. The American handlers of the policy surrounding Saddam Hussein got very nervous at the very last stage, when they saw what the Iraqi leadership planned to do with this event associated with the execution.<\/em><\/p>\n \tDivers autres aspects parmi les r\u00e9actions suivant l’ex\u00e9cution de Saddam et les conditions de cette ex\u00e9cution, y compris la diffusion de films clandestins de l’ex\u00e9cution, montrent le d\u00e9sordre complet de ces r\u00e9actions, la rancur et la col\u00e8re marquant en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral ces r\u00e9actions. Un jugement pratique sur cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement montre qu’il a constitu\u00e9 un d\u00e9sastre de relations publiques pour le gouvernement irakien et l’administration GW Bush. Rien ne peut plus nous \u00e9tonner \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’ex\u00e9cution de Saddam Hussein a montr\u00e9 que l’incapacit\u00e9 des autorit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricanistes \u00e0 contr\u00f4ler m\u00eame les \u00e9v\u00e9nements les plus compl\u00e8tement sous son contr\u00f4le th\u00e9orique \u00e9tait sans fin et nous r\u00e9servait encore des surprises. Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement l’incapacit\u00e9 de contr\u00f4ler l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement de l’ex\u00e9cution doit \u00eatre appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 dans le contexte plus large de la situation en Irak, du point de vue de l’action de la direction am\u00e9ricaniste, telle qu’elle est rapport\u00e9e dans un article important et r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur publi\u00e9 par le New York Times<\/em> le 2 janvier<\/a>, sous le titre : \u00abChaos Overran Iraq Plan in ’06, Bush Team Says<\/em>\u00bb. L’article d\u00e9crit en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral l’\u00e9chec constant et catastrophique de la direction US, son incapacit\u00e9 de type syst\u00e9mique \u00e0 contr\u00f4ler la situation en Irak tout au long de l’ann\u00e9e 2006, et bien s\u00fbr l’incapacit\u00e9 de lui imposer son orientation strat\u00e9gique. Il montre clairement la Maison-Blanche constamment distanc\u00e9e et prise \u00e0 contre-pied par les \u00e9v\u00e9nements, et constamment confront\u00e9e \u00e0 l’irr\u00e9alisme de son appr\u00e9ciation virtualiste de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (\u00abThis left the president and his advisers constantly lagging a step or two behind events on the ground.<\/em> [] Over the past 12 months, as optimism collided with reality<\/em>\u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tD’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e9galement, la m\u00eame interf\u00e9rence des conditions politiques et politiciennes g\u00e9n\u00e9rales \u00e0 Washington est constat\u00e9e tout au long de l’ann\u00e9e 2006 dans les \u00e9v\u00e9nements irakiens, tout comme elle l’est dans le cas de l’ex\u00e9cution de Saddam selon l’appr\u00e9ciation qu’en fait le professeur Falk. (\u00abThis year<\/em> [2006], decisions on a new strategy were clearly slowed by political calculations. Many of Mr. Bush’s advisers say their timetable for completing an Iraq review had been based in part on a judgment that for Mr. Bush to have voiced doubts about his strategy before the midterm elections in November would have been politically catastrophic.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\nLa surr\u00e9aliste maladresse am\u00e9ricaniste<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n