{"id":68763,"date":"2007-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/antimissiles-us-en-europe-le-congres-entre-dans-la-danse\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"antimissiles-us-en-europe-le-congres-entre-dans-la-danse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/antimissiles-us-en-europe-le-congres-entre-dans-la-danse\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimissiles US (en Europe) : le Congr\u00e8s entre dans la danse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Le <em>casting<\/em> de l&rsquo;affaire des antimissiles (BMD) US en Europe se compl\u00e8te. Un des acteurs principaux, jusqu&rsquo;ici l&rsquo;esprit ailleurs, intervient dans le d\u00e9bat. C&rsquo;est le Congr\u00e8s des Etats-Unis, domin\u00e9 par les d\u00e9mocrates. Une d\u00e9cision (qui peut \u00eatre annul\u00e9e dans le processus budg\u00e9taire tr\u00e8s complexe) a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise le 2 mai par la sous-commission des forces strat\u00e9giques de la Chambre, de r\u00e9duire de $160 les $310 millions demand\u00e9s par l&rsquo;administration pour le d\u00e9veloppement d&rsquo;une t\u00eate explosive du programme, et de $764 millions le budget g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de $8,9 milliards du programme de missiles antimissiles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLes explications donn\u00e9es par les parlementaires sont \u00e0 la fois techniques (budg\u00e9taires) et politiques. Il faut noter la d\u00e9claration du pr\u00e9sident d&rsquo;une sous-commission qui n&rsquo;est pas directement impliqu\u00e9e dans le processus, une sous-commission de la Chambre sur l&rsquo;Europe, le d\u00e9mocrate Robert Wexter : \u00ab<em>Europeans also question why  if this program is really intended to protect Europe  did the administration choose to bilaterally negotiate with Poland and the Czech Republic rather than collectively decide this issue in NATO. It is unacceptable for the American people  who have footed hundreds of billions of dollars for the debacle in Iraq  to once again provide a blank check to the president &#8230; on a questionable missile defense program, whose costs at a minimum ought to be shared by our European allies.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa r\u00e9action de l&rsquo;administration (voir <em>SpaceWar.com<\/em> du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacewar.com\/reports\/Funding_Row_Cloud_Talks_On_US_Missile_Shield_Plan_999.html\" class=\"gen\">4 mai<\/a>) est \u00e9videmment l&rsquo;indignation. Il s&rsquo;agit, comme chacun sait, d&rsquo;un programme essentiel \u00e0 la sauvegarde de la civilisation, et cela se sent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>President George W. Bush&rsquo;s administration warned Thursday that plans by Congress to cut funding for a missile defense shield in Europe could complicate negotiations for the installation of the facilities in Poland and Czech Republic. The strategic forces subcommittee of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to block key funding for the missile installation aimed at thwarting a potential Iranian missile threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The move came as Bush administration officials prepared to visit Warsaw and Prague later this month to begin formal negotiations on the placement of missile defense facilities in those countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The US assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, John Rood, said the Congressional move would present issues for us in our discussions with those allies. And at a time when NATO allies have responded so positively to our recent discussions, I would urge against taking such a step, he said when responding to a question on the funding cutback during a House hearing Thursday.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa situation est franchement int\u00e9ressante jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 en \u00eatre comique. Washington met le paquet depuis deux mois dans cette affaire. Il provoque un durcissement des relations avec la Russie, les pr\u00e9misses d&rsquo;une relance de la course aux armements en Europe, une marche vers la re-nucl\u00e9arisation de l&rsquo;Europe, un engagement des habituels Europ\u00e9ens-moutons derri\u00e8re l&rsquo;affirmation de l&rsquo;importance du syst\u00e8me, des grognements discrets chez quelques autres (Europ\u00e9ens),  cela, pour d\u00e9couvrir que le Congr\u00e8s ne suit pas (ce qu&rsquo;on aurait pu d\u00e9couvrir avant, mais enfin). Et cette opposition n&rsquo;est pas rien : la sous-commission a vot\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;unanimit\u00e9, r\u00e9publicains comme d\u00e9mocrates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa sottise bureaucratique continue ses ravages. Washington a fait sortir le diable de sa bo\u00eete pour d\u00e9couvrir qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;a pas tous les moyens qu&rsquo;il faut pour le traiter. Le diable en rit d\u00e9j\u00e0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 4 mai 2007 \u00e0 07H50<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le casting de l&rsquo;affaire des antimissiles (BMD) US en Europe se compl\u00e8te. Un des acteurs principaux, jusqu&rsquo;ici l&rsquo;esprit ailleurs, intervient dans le d\u00e9bat. C&rsquo;est le Congr\u00e8s des Etats-Unis, domin\u00e9 par les d\u00e9mocrates. Une d\u00e9cision (qui peut \u00eatre annul\u00e9e dans le processus budg\u00e9taire tr\u00e8s complexe) a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise le 2 mai par la sous-commission des forces&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4056,5433,3285,6484],"class_list":["post-68763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-antimissiles","tag-bmd","tag-congres","tag-euromissiles-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68763","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=68763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}