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I.VITER UNE OFFENSIVE ':le pre,Inl, 'er 11lll1lS,', ',:tre,'ajoutant: «j'ai résultat il peut;iet. avoir et ce qui sera
valeurs démocratiques », explique, I: 1 d d é ro'
Walter Schwimmer,secrétaire géné- La présence à Istanbul du minis- eu ,,''!1P~eSSIOT;l Ull mpuv~ment" onn en con pa e,»
ral du Conseil de l'Europe, ajoutant tre des affaires étrangères irakien, mOls,1 n e~t pps encore clOlr quel ~rtotë'Pöpe
que l'Europe « doit se lancer etjouer Naji Sabri, a fourni l'occasion de
un rôle actif» avant de préciser: sonder les sentiments de Bagdad,
« Si nous défendons ces valeurs, nous actuellement dans la ligne de mire Washington examine les options sur l'Irak
devons les 'défendre même lorsque de Washington, Ankara souhaite Lesecrétaire d'Etat Colin Powell a affirmé, mardi 12 février, devant la commission
du budget du Sénat, que le président Bush" n'a pas en ce moment
nous sommes attaqués, »
désespérément éviter une offensive
En ce qui concerne le Proche- militaire.
sur son bureau de plan pour commencer une nouvelle guerre avec quelque
Orient, M. Védrine affirme pour sa ' Le premier ministre turc, Billent pays que ce soit ". Le chef de la diplomatie américaine a toutefois souligné
part qu'il y a une unanimité euro- Ecevit,arécemmentécritàSaddam que" l'Irak est le pays qui est source de la plus forte inquiétude ", ajoutant
péenne sur 1'« impérieuse nécessité Hussein pour lui suggérer d'autoride'
revenir sur le terrain du dialogÙe ser le retour des inspecteurs, de me" si Bagdad n'acceptait pas un retour des inspecteurs internationaux
que Washington" examinait les options concernant un changement de régi-
politique ». Javier Solana, responsa- l'ONU,fi n'a pas ,obtenu de réponse chargés de vérifier son désarmement. M, Powell a ajouté que le président
ble de la politique extérieure et de positive.Toutefois, M.Ecevita affirsécurité
de l'Union européenne, a mé, à l'issue de, sa discussion avec armé demain" avec te régime de Saddam Hussein, sans toutefois exclure
Bush" n'a pas devant lui de recommandation impliquant qu'ily ait un conflit
insisté sur le fait que «nous som- M, Sabri,avoir détecté un assouplismes
unis par la conViction que la seu- sement irakien: «Certains propos " /I ny a aucune adion militaire imminente ", a déclaré de son côté, le por-
cette possibilité à plus long ter'me,
le solution qui peut amener une paix ont été exprimés qui peuvent être te-parole de la présidence Ari Fleischer. "Aucune détthitM n'a été prise"
durable aux peuples concernés est la compris comme signifiant que l'Irak a-t-il ajouté. - (AFP.) ,
création de deux Etats ».
est prêt à un compromis », a déclaré
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, February 14, 2002 '
Powelllooking hawkish on Iraq
By David E. Sanger
moving Saddam immediately after the
The New York TImes
Sept. 11attacks. As the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf
WASHINGTON: In the Weeks follow- War, Powell carried enormous crp.dibiliing
the defeat of the Taliban and the ty in facing down the Pentagon.
scattering of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Now, a senior administration official
the Bush administration was consumed said the other day, "we've finally jelled."
with internal debate about where to Powell, the offiCiaI noted, used the
take the war on terrorism next. phrase "axis of evil" repeatedly in refer-
Now, by all indications, the debate is ence to Iraq, Iran and North Korea - to
largely over: Toppling President Sad- signal that there is no daylight between
dam Hussein is the next major goal, and himself and his more hawkish boss.
the administration is putting in place "It's hard to imagine' Colin saying
the diplomatic and military means to those words OJi his
accomplish it.
own a month ago," the
Butifallieshavegrownmorenervous NEWS senior official said.
that this is'the wrong fight at the wrong
"Either he's come in~
time, President George W. Bush sounds Analysis to agreement with
as if he has grown more certain than everyone else, or he's
ever of the rightness of his course: In decided to embrace
Milwaukee on Monday night, he the policy in hopes that, from the inside,
warned that he was "not going to allow he can control and mocj.ifyit."
regimes such as Iran, Iraq and North If that is Powell's secret plan, he may
Korea to threaten our way of life." have time on his side.
, But while Bush made no distinctions Even the most hawkish members of
among the three in his speech, inside the administration say it will be months
the administration there is now con- before the desire to topple Saddam turns
sensus that Iraq is the only one of those into a concrete strategy. But the outlines
three regimes that has to go. That de- of the strategy are beginning to emerge.
cision has been made vivid in recent Between now and May, Bush's team
days' by thé 'remarks, ofSecretary of, plans to create what amounts to an in-
State Colin Powell - a case in which spection crisis - demanding that Iraq
Washington'smessenger is as impor-', admit into the country the nuclear intant
as the messageitself: ' spectors it expelled in 1998. Busb's
. Powell has long been considered the ' aides fully expect that Saddam will revoice
of cautioa jn the BUshwar cabinet, fuse outright or feign cooperation in the
the resttaining Ùifluénce on those in the hope of dragging out the process.
Pentagon, led by Deputy Dt!fense Secre- ,Bush's plan is to use either action as
tary Paul WoI~tz, who~ed for re- evidence that Iraq is hiding active
weapons programs, and use Iraq's resistance
to justify more forceful action.
Whether that takes the form of direct
military attack, support for internal rebellions
or other options "is still up in
the air," a senior White House official
said Tuesday.
But by joining so publicly with his
boss and with his rivals in the Defense
Department, Powell is clearly signaling
to America's reluctant allies that they
cannot exploit a division in the administration
to forestall action on Iraq.
'~t same point," an administration officiaI
said, "the Europeans with butterflies
in their stomachs - many ofwhom
didn't want us to go into Afghanistan -
will see that they have a bipolar choice:
They can get with the plan or get off."
It is that kind of talk that has so raised
the hackles of European leaders in recent
days; including longtime friends of
Washington like Joschka Fischer, the
German foreign minister, who warned
on Tuesday that "alliancepartners are
not satellites," a phrase that evoked images
of how the old Soviet Union dealt
with the rest of the Communist bloc.
Powell will have to chip away at such
vocal opposition ifhe has any hope of,
piecing together an anti-Iraq coalition
that would at least give protective political
cover to what would essentially be
an American action.
But he warned last week that if the allies
balk - he clearly had Germany,
France and Saudi Arabia in mind,
among others - Bush was fully prepared
to do it by himself.
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