(El convidado de piedra @ lundi 20 novembre 2006 à 11:30 a écrit : Henry Kissinger, de triste mémoire, s'avance, surement avec l'acord de Bush ou des hautes sphères américaines, pour dire que la guerre est perdue, ou "impossible de gagner"
Je souligne quelques paragraphes, non pas relatives aux opinions de M. Kissinger, mais sur le procès de Sadamm Hussein. Pourquoi? Beh, tout simplement parce que cela ne m'étonnerait pas que quelques uns commencent à penser à lui pour remettre de "l'ordre" en Irak...
Le cynisme des impérialistes ne connait pas des limites et après avoir detruit ce pays ils peuvent très bien remettre Sadamm au poste de commande. Ce ne serait qu'une nouvelle fois qu'il se met à leur service et que les impérialistes l'utilissent.a écrit :Victory in Iraq impossible, says Kissinger
By Steve Negus, Iraq Correspondent, and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
Published: November 20 2006 00:17 | Last updated: November 20 2006 00:17
Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who has advised the Bush administration on the war in Iraq, on Sunday said he no longer believed a military victory was possible in the conflict.
“If you mean by clear military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control . . . I don’t believe that is possible,” Mr Kissinger told BBC television.
His dire assessment of the war, and view that the US should engage Iraq’s neighbours in seeking a diplomatic solution, reinforced calls by Democratic lawmakers in Washington for the White House to speak to Iran and Syria to help stem the tide of violence in Iraq.
Mr Kissinger’s remarks came as Walid Muallem, Syria’s foreign minister, became the most senior Syrian politician to visit Baghdad since the US-led invasion.
Mr Muallem said violence in Iraq would be reduced if a timetable was set for the withdrawal of US forces.
But interviews with senior lawmakers on US talk shows on Sunday underscored the wide divide that exists not only on the question of whether engaging Syria and Iran would be fruitful, but whether the White House needed to boost US troop deployment in the short term or begin the process of bringing troops home.
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, suggested on ABC’s This Week that he would consider calling for American troops to leave Iraq if the White House did not agree to send additional forces to secure the country – a proposition President George W. Bush has previously rejected. Mr McCain said US troops were “fighting and dying for a failed policy”, but added that he would “exhaust every possibility” to fix the situation before calling for troops to abandon Iraq, because the consequences of losing the war were “severe”.
Another senator, Democrat Carl Levin, who will take on the chairmanship of the armed services committee, countered on CNN’s Late Edition that he supported a phased withdrawal of troops to put a “pressure point on the neighbours who do not want Iraq to disintegrate”.
The depth of the sectarian violence in Iraq was underscored by the news that Ammar al-Saffar, the deputy health minister, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home just one day after another Shia politician, Ali al-Adhadh, was killed. A Sunni insurgent group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 22 people in Hilla, the mainly Shia neighbourhood south of Baghdad, in retaliation for a mass kidnapping from a Sunni-run education institute last week.
Separately, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement due to be released on Monday that the just-concluded trial of Saddam Hussein and members of his regime was marred by so many flaws that the verdict was unsound. “The court’s conduct, as documented in this report, reflects a basic lack of understanding of fundamental fair trial principles, and how to uphold them in the conduct of a relatively complex trial. The result is a trial that did not meet key fair trial standards,” the report concluded.
Mr Hussein and two other members of his regime were sentenced to death on November 5, following a year-long trial on charges related to a campaign of reprisals against the Shia village of Dujail.
Among the flaws listed in the 97-page report was the presentation of evidence that was not given in advance of the trial to the defence and testimony from absent witnesses that was read into the record without giving the defence a chance to challenge those witnesses. Administrative problems included lack of planning for the security of defence counsels, three of whom were assassinated.
In addition, the HRW report argued that the evidence had big gaps, in particular its failure to show Mr Hussein’s regime worked.
Additional reporting by agencies
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006
Bonjour,
intéressant mais on a dit récemment qu'il ne fallait plus mettre de passages en langues étrangères ou alors en faire une traduction résumée ou intégrale...
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