Au moment où le pr\u00e9sident Obama annonce le retrait \u00ab\u00a0complet\u00a0\u00bb des forces US d’Irak pour la fin 2011, – retrait \u00ab\u00a0complet\u00a0\u00bb tout relatif, comme il s’entend avec le Syst\u00e8me qui garde toujours une tentacule de r\u00e9serve (celle de la CIA<\/a> en l’occurrence), – certains ont l’id\u00e9e de faire les comptes. Ils d\u00e9couvrent, comme David R. Francis, du Christian Science Monitor<\/em> (le 25 octobre 2011<\/a>), que la guerre d’Irak coûtera certainement plus cher<\/strong> pour les USA que la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale. (Donc, pour les USA, la guerre la plus coûteuse de son histoire.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «Anyone curious about the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can look it up on costofwar.com, up to the latest fraction of a second. Last weekend, the Iraq war had cost more than $800 billion since 2001; the Afghan war, $467 billion plus. So President Obama’s announcement that all US troops will be out of Iraq by year end should mean some drop in ongoing military spending. But the budget relief probably won’t be as much as you might expect.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Tragically, beside the financial cost, there is the human toll. The war in Iraq has resulted in some 4,480 US troops killed and more than 32,000 wounded. (The Iraqis have suffered far more fatalities, about 654,965, according to the British medical journal The Lancet.) Thus, ongoing medical and disability claims and treatment of US veterans will boost the costs of the Iraq war even more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Throw in the replacement of vehicles, weapons, equipment, etc., and the eventual tab for the United States could reach $4 trillion to $6 trillion, according to University of Columbia economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes. Those are big numbers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »They would be on par with the $4.6 trillion the US spent on the recent financial bailouts, according to Barry Ritholtz, CEO of Wall Street research firm Fusion IQ and author of the popular blog The Big Picture. (Another estimate puts the bailout cost at $8.7 trillion.) The sum spent on the Iraq war could pay for a good chunk of Obamacare, professor Bilnes estimates. It’s more than the $3.6 trillion the US spent to fight World War II, even after adjusting for inflation, Mr. Ritholtz estimates.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n »When President George W. Bush launched the war, charging incorrectly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon estimated its cost at $50 billion to $60 billion. Economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey got in hot water at the White House when he guessed in public the war could cost as much as $200 billion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »One oddity of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is that even as military preparations were under way, Congress cut taxes in 2001 and again in 2003. These Bush tax cuts meant in effect that the wars were financed by adding to federal debt, rather than paid for from revenues. US outstanding debt zoomed from $5.7 trillion when Mr. Bush took office to $10.6 trillion when he left. And all but $700 billion of that debt was accumulated before the Wall Street bailouts began under the Troubled Asset Relief Program in October 2008.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Encore, comme le fait remarquer Philip Erwing de DoD.Buzz<\/em> (le 25 octobre 2011<\/a>), Francis ne prend-il pas en compte les coûts \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9siduels\u00a0\u00bb depuis l’arriv\u00e9e de Obama, dont on sait qu’il s’est montr\u00e9 un \u00ab\u00a0chef de guerre\u00a0\u00bb au moins aussi entreprenant que son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur GW. D’autre part, ces d\u00e9penses sont parfois parcourues d’\u00e9pisodes \u00e9poustouflants, comme les plus de $40 milliards en cash (pour un poids de 369 tonnes de billets de banque) livr\u00e9s quasi clandestinement de la Federal Reserve de New York vers la Banque centrale irakienne et dont on n’a plus jamais trouv\u00e9 la moindre trace. Antiwar.com<\/em> rapporte l’\u00e9pisode, le 26 octobre 2011<\/a>, et quelques d\u00e9tails illustrant le s\u00e9rieux du fonctionnement du Syst\u00e8me m\u00e9ritent citation…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «Since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, the New York Federal Reserve has been shipping tens of billions of dollars to the government and central bank of Iraq, ostensibly for reconstruction and resumption of governmental services after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Between 2003 and 2008, over $40 billion in cash was secretly shipped in trucks from the New York Federal Reserve compound in East Rutherford, New Jersey to Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, where they were then flown by military aircraft to Baghdad International Airport. In just the first two years, the shipments of dollar bills weighed a total of 363 tons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »But much of that money was stolen, misappropriated, and simply lost. Despite Congressional hearings and reports, official inquiries from Washington to Baghdad, an investigating special inspector general’s office and Department of Defense, nobody knows exactly what happened to the bulk of the money. Likely destinations of the stolen fiat, secretly printed out of thin air to fund the US government’s illegal war and occupation in Iraq, went towards intricate contracting schemes, corrupt Iraqi and American officials, and brash, blanket appropriations in war torn Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »The shipments followed a detailed route, documenting by the minute who was in custody of the money, until it reached the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official in Baghdad who arranged for them to get to the Central Bank of Iraq in downtown Baghdad. That responsibility was fulfilled by one man, a naturalized American citizen of Lebanese descent who was born in Saudi Arabia working as a civilian contractor for the US military. Only his first name has been released: Basel. He was the last to see the bales of cash before they entered the Central Bank of Iraq.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Il faut comprendre cela, – le d\u00e9passement du coût de la Seconde Guerre mondiale par le coût de la guerre en Irak, – en ayant \u00e0 l’esprit les diff\u00e9rences extraordinaires d’ampleur des th\u00e9\u00e2tres d’op\u00e9ration, de strat\u00e9gie, d’effectifs et d’abondance de mat\u00e9riels, d’ambitions politico-militaires, d’enjeux et d’importance r\u00e9elle des conflits, d’ampleurs g\u00e9ographiques et de fondement historiques, bref de substance fondamentale, entre les deux conflits. Certains, comme Erwing (d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9), estiment que \u00ab\u00a0la guerre est devenue plus ch\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb. Nous dirions, nous, qu’il s’agit plut\u00f4t d’une compl\u00e8te d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence de la guerre, qui devient absolument futile, sans la moindre utilit\u00e9, sans le moindre apport politique, tout en devenant plus destructrice, plus cruelle, plus immorale et ill\u00e9gale, voire m\u00eame compl\u00e8tement entropique dans les sens physique autant que spirituel. C’est-\u00e0-dire qu’une gu\u00e8re comme celle de l’Irak, comme les autres en cours de la p\u00e9riode, correspondent parfaitement \u00e0 la barbarie moderniste parvenue \u00e0 son terme entropique et nihiliste. On ajoute, bien entendu, triste cerise sur la g\u00e2teau et cerise sans surprise, la multiplication des coûts, de la corruption, du gaspillage, dans des proportions absolument inimaginables. Dit autrement, la guerre a suivi absolument l’\u00e9volution du Syst\u00e8me, jusqu’\u00e0 en devenir son double \u00e0 la fois inutile et absolument pr\u00e9dateur de toutes les structures de civilisation. La guerre en Irak restera arch\u00e9typique de l’emploi de la force dans le cadre compl\u00e8tement subversif du Syst\u00e8me, comme l’un des plus beaux fleurons de l’effondrement de notre contre-civilisation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n La diff\u00e9rence entre les deux conflits est \u00e9galement et finalement dans son effet de civilisation, ou de contre-civilisation, dans le processus d’effondrement du Syst\u00e8me. La Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale est venue apr\u00e8s<\/strong> la Grande D\u00e9pression et a sauv\u00e9 (temporairement, certes, comme on le voit aujourd’hui), le capitalisme et le Syst\u00e8me en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. La guerre en Irak (avec d’autres) est survenue avant<\/strong> la crise de 2008, en provoquant et en acc\u00e9l\u00e9rant la phase finale de la crise de l’effondrement, qu’elle a nourrie abondamment, sinon provoqu\u00e9e compl\u00e8tement dans sa partie la plus dynamique. Toute l’histoire de ce Syst\u00e8me est r\u00e9sum\u00e9 par ce renversement, cette inversion<\/strong>, – ce qui nous fait grandement pr\u00e9sumer que ceux qui annoncent une grande guerre pour que le Syst\u00e8me se sorte de sa crise terminale, si la crise n’a pas eu raison de lui auparavant, ce qui est probable, – ceux-l\u00e0 ne font que fixer par avance le moment de son oraison fun\u00e8bre. Personne ne regrettera une telle usine \u00e0 gaz.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mis en ligne le 26 octobre 2011 \u00e0 12H11<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L’Irak plus cher que la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale Au moment où le pr\u00e9sident Obama annonce le retrait \u00ab\u00a0complet\u00a0\u00bb des forces US d’Irak pour la fin 2011, – retrait \u00ab\u00a0complet\u00a0\u00bb tout relatif, comme il s’entend avec le Syst\u00e8me qui garde toujours une tentacule de r\u00e9serve (celle de la CIA en l’occurrence), – certains ont l’id\u00e9e de… <\/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":[3858,3767,4204,2631,10661,4544,2645,857,2622,10483],"class_list":["post-74183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-corruption","tag-cout","tag-david","tag-de","tag-francis","tag-gaspillage","tag-guerre","tag-irak","tag-la","tag-r"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183","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=74183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}