Lorsqu’il s’agit d’en juger \u00e0 propos des possibilit\u00e9s de guerre contre l’Iran, nous sommes tous, et c’est bien normal, concentr\u00e9s sur la personnalit\u00e9 et le gouvernement de GW Bush. Par cons\u00e9quent, nous faisons des r\u00e9publicains le parti de la guerre; par antith\u00e8se naturelle, nous tendons \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer les d\u00e9mocrates comme un peu moins z\u00e9l\u00e9s \u00e0 ce propos. Pas du tout, dit Seymour Hersh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tJon Wiener, professeur d’histoire et collaborateur r\u00e9gulier de The Nation<\/em>, a rencontr\u00e9 Hersh et lui a pos\u00e9 quelques questions \u00e0 propos du nouvel article<\/a> du New Yorker<\/em>. Il nous restitue l’essentiel de cette discussion dans un article mis en ligne le 4 octobre<\/a> sur Huffington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhen George Bush and Dick Cheney talk about their plans to bomb Iran, they are told You can’t do it, because every Republican is going to be defeated that’s what a Republican former intelligence official told legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. But, the former official went on, Cheney doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the Republican worries, and neither does the President.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhen I asked Hersh who wants to bomb Iran, he said, "Ironically there is a lot of pressure coming from Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Edwards have all said we cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran. Clearly the pressure from Democrats is a reflection of we might as well say it Israeli and Jewish input. He added the obvious: a lot of money comes to the Democratic campaigns from Jewish contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut while Democrats argue that we must do something about an Iranian nuclear threat, Hersh says the White House has concluded their own effort to convince Americans that Iran poses an imminent threat has failed. Apparently the public that bought the story of WMD in Iraq is now singing the classic Who song, Won’t be Fooled Again.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMoreover, Hersh reports, the general consensus of the American intelligence community is that Iran is at least five years away from obtaining a bomb so the public is right to be skeptical.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAs a result, according to Hersh, the focus of the plans to bomb Iran has shifted from an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities to an emphasis on the famed surgical strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere. The White House hopes it can win public support for this kind of campaign by arguing that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for the deaths of Americans in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhy don’t Bush and Cheney give a rat’s ass about getting Republicans reelected to the Senate and the House in 2008? Of course that was hyperbole to make a point, Hersh said. When it comes to choice between bombing Iran and taking some political heat, the president will do what he wants. Look, no decision has been made, no order has been given, I’ve never said it’s going to happen. But I had breakfast this morning in Washington with somebody who’s close to a lot of military people, and there’s a sense among them that the president is essentially messianic about this. He sees this as his mission. It could be because God is telling him to do it. It could be because his daddy didn’t do it. It could be because it’s step 13 in a 12-step program he was in. I just don’t know.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa conclusion de ces appr\u00e9ciations est donc que, d’ici l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle, les r\u00e9publicains auraient plut\u00f4t tendance \u00e0 freiner l’id\u00e9e d’une attaque tandis que les d\u00e9mocrates l’appuieraient au contraire. Cette situation implique que l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle ne fera pas dispara\u00eetre le risque d’une attaque; un pr\u00e9sident r\u00e9publicain, une fois pass\u00e9e la prudence due \u00e0 la campagne \u00e9lectorale, se retrouvera li\u00e9 \u00e0 la politique de son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur; un pr\u00e9sident (une pr\u00e9sidente) d\u00e9mocrate sera plus que jamais li\u00e9(e) \u00e0 ses sources naturelles de soutien financier. En attendant, et pour entretenir le suspens, il reste les conversations priv\u00e9es entre GW et son Conseiller Sp\u00e9cial.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 5 octobre 2007 \u00e0 09H11<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorsqu’il s’agit d’en juger \u00e0 propos des possibilit\u00e9s de guerre contre l’Iran, nous sommes tous, et c’est bien normal, concentr\u00e9s sur la personnalit\u00e9 et le gouvernement de GW Bush. 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