3 mai<\/a> et mis en ligne par McClatchy Newspapers, pr\u00e9sente l’image d’une extraordinaire d\u00e9termination chez ce pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe time for bumper-sticker bombast, sound-bite strategizing and gotcha politics as practiced by the politicians who infest the nation’s capital needs to end right now, at least where it intersects with the disaster that is the Iraq War.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere’s no high ground left to capture by either a stubborn president who won’t see or hear the truth about where his path to victory in a lost war really leads, or the new Democratic majority in Congress, which is too timid and fearful of doing what they were elected to do bring an end to the war as swiftly as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhile the politicians a pox on all of them wrangled and dithered and bloviated American troops were dying at record numbers on the bomb-blasted roads and streets of Iraq. The month of April saw 104 American soldiers and Marines travel home in flag-draped coffins, out of sight of the cameras and the American people in whose name they died. It was the sixth highest monthly death toll of the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis past week was a circus of the ridiculous as President Bush went on television every day threatening to veto a bill providing the billions needed to continue to prosecute his war only the second veto The Decider has exercised in his six years in power on grounds that the Democrats were trying to substitute the judgments of politicians for that of the military commanders on the ground.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBush’s daily diatribe overlooked the fact that the politicians of his administration had shoved their own flawed judgments down the throats of our military commanders every day since planning of the invasion began early in 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Democrats had already tinkered with their war-funding bill to remove mandatory guidelines for the beginning of troop withdrawals, making them more of a suggestion than an order. But that wasn’t enough for the president, who demanded a clean bill with only the money he wanted to continue the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe moveable deadline for some determination of whether the president’s surge, or escalation, of U.S. troop strength in Iraq moved yet again as our commander Gen. David Petraeus told Congress that it would probably be September before we had a good idea whether the new-old strategy was working or not.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnd if that strategy is not working when September rolls around? That would not mean the war was over, administration officials hinted. They will think up something else to try.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe president is determined to continue the war, no matter what, until he can safely hand over the whole mess to whoever succeeds him on Jan. 20, 2009, no matter the cost in American and Iraqi lives.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCe long extrait du texte de Galloway pr\u00e9sente une image tr\u00e8s surr\u00e9aliste de la situation. Il appara\u00eet clairement que l’enjeu, aujourd’hui, n’est plus vraiment l’issue de la guerre, l’issue de telle strat\u00e9gie, etc., mais bien le seul fait de tenir. GW Bush veut tenir contre le Congr\u00e8s, contre l’opinion publique, contre les experts, contre ses g\u00e9n\u00e9raux, etc., comme si le simple fait de tenir jusqu’en janvier 2009 justifierait la guerre et constituerait une sorte de victoire symbolique rempla\u00e7ant la vraie, et, au-del\u00e0, constituerait le fondement m\u00eame de sa pr\u00e9sidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tC’est une situation fascinante car, aujourd’hui, on pourrait commencer \u00e0 dire que la puissance US est toute enti\u00e8re tenue et paralys\u00e9e par un seul homme, encore plus que par les \u00e9v\u00e9nements d’Irak eux-m\u00eames. M\u00eame la violence de la guerre dans le pays n’exerce pas une pression aussi grande que la volont\u00e9 presque absurde de cet homme, verrouill\u00e9 dans ses pr\u00e9rogatives constitutionnelles et sourd \u00e0 toute logique strat\u00e9gique et politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 6 mai 2007 \u00e0 13H16<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il doit nous appara\u00eetre de plus en plus \u00e9vident que le pr\u00e9sident GW Bush est d\u00e9termin\u00e9 \u00e0 aller jusqu’au bout dans la guerre en Irak, c’est-\u00e0-dire jusqu’au bout de sa pr\u00e9sidence, sans plus vraiment s’inqui\u00e9ter du r\u00e9sultat, des cons\u00e9quences et des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s de cette guerre. Un article de commentaire de Joseph L. Galloway, datant du… <\/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":[6654,2645,3198,857,6653],"class_list":["post-68768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bout","tag-guerre","tag-gw","tag-irak","tag-jusquau"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68768","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=68768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}