{"id":68743,"date":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/26\/le-poodle-qui-ne-voulait-pas-quon-le-croit-trop-poodle\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"le-poodle-qui-ne-voulait-pas-quon-le-croit-trop-poodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/26\/le-poodle-qui-ne-voulait-pas-quon-le-croit-trop-poodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Le poodle<\/em> qui ne voulait pas qu’on le croit trop poodle<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manifestement, Blair pr\u00e9pare ses valises. Sa seule priorit\u00e9 est, \u00e0 l’image de sa carri\u00e8re (voir le texte de Jenkins<\/a> sur le blairisme), de ne pas laisser une mauvaise image. Question d’image, vous comprenez.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni \u00e0 Washington, Sir David Manning, qui fut le principal conseiller de Blair lors du lancement de la guerre contre l’Irak, est un pilier \u00e0 toute \u00e9preuve des special relationships<\/em>. Fid\u00e8le de Blair, il a pour mission de polir l’image du PM. Il s’y emploie. Il donne une longue interview au Times<\/em> de Londres ce jour<\/a>, o\u00f9 il d\u00e9taille les avantages des susdites special relationships<\/em>, et surtout l’influence secr\u00e8te mais remarquable, si, il nous en assure et nous rassure l\u00e0-dessus, que Londres exer\u00e7a sur Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMais ce qui fait les choux gras du Times<\/em>, malgr\u00e9 tout (et malgr\u00e9 la constante sollicitude que ce journal \u00e9prouve pour Blair), c’est ce qui fait un peu sensation : les r\u00e9v\u00e9lations de Manning sur l’embarras de Tony Blair d’avoir re\u00e7u une m\u00e9daille du Congr\u00e8s pour services rendus \u00e0 la cause transatlantique via l’Irak. Blair, accus\u00e9 si souvent d’\u00eatre un poodle<\/em> (un caniche) de GW Bush, craignait que la r\u00e9ception physique et solennelle de cette m\u00e9daille p\u00fbt le rendre encore plus poodle<\/em> aux yeux de ses d\u00e9tracteurs. Au reste, un point int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 noter est la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation de Manning que le d\u00e9part de Tony Blair a \u00e9t\u00e9 acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 par cette r\u00e9putation de poodle<\/em> si laborieusement acquise durant ces cinq derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abTony Blair has felt unable to pick up his US Congressional Gold Medal of Honour for four years partly because the ceremony would reinforce the prejudices of those convinced he was some sort of poodle, says Sir David Manning, Britain’s Ambassador in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Prime Minister’s 1,351-day delay in collecting the medal from President Bush has long been a source of puzzlement in both Washington and London. Downing Street insists that it is still being designed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut as Mr Blair prepares to leave office, Sir David told The Times in a rare interview that the Prime Minister always had inhibitions about being handed a medal that was awarded shortly after the invasion of Iraq at his triumphant address to both houses of Congress in July 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSir David who was Downing Street’s chief foreign policy adviser in the run-up to the invasion seeks to tackle perceptions about Britain’s relationship with America and that between the two leaders, whose place in history is likely to be defined by the Iraq war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbFor those who are convinced that the Prime Minister is . . . some sort of poodle, it does not matter what he does, says Sir David, who will finish his four-year stint as Ambassador this autumn. You reach the point where if he had collected the medal, people would say that proves their point. But it’s a much better a much more complicated relationship it’s a two-way street.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbMr Blair’s medal, awarded by Congress for his support for American foreign policy, has become an unfortunate symbol a heavy burden around his neck.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSir David says that Mr Blair has always been reluctant to accept any award while still in office and predicts that he will receive the medal when he is a private citizen. That day is looming and it has come earlier than it might have done were it not for the closeness of his relationship with Mr Bush.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 26 avril 2007 \u00e0 14H04<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manifestement, Blair pr\u00e9pare ses valises. Sa seule priorit\u00e9 est, \u00e0 l’image de sa carri\u00e8re (voir le texte de Jenkins sur le blairisme), de ne pas laisser une mauvaise image. Question d’image, vous comprenez. L’ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni \u00e0 Washington, Sir David Manning, qui fut le principal conseiller de Blair lors du lancement de la guerre contre… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,6615,5417,5683,3345,3344],"class_list":["post-68743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-manning","tag-medaille","tag-poodle","tag-relationships","tag-special"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}