... Pendant ce temps, Bush-le-père complotait pour l'éliminer (Qui? Rumsfeld, bien sûr)

C’est une extraordinaire nouvelle que nous rapporte Sidney Blumenthal, de Salon.com, relayée par RAW Story, — une nouvelle digne des imbroglios dynastiques des bas-empires délicieusement décadents. Il s’agit du complot monté par Bush-le-père (George H.W. Bush, dit “41”, — pour 41ème président des US) contre Bush-le-fils (George W. Bush, dit “43”, — pour 43ème…, etc.). Le complot, qui a pris ses aises durant les cinq derniers mois, avait pour but de faire remplacer Rumsfeld (« Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld », nous explique Blumenthal).

Voici quelques explications qu’on peut prendre avec confiance, Blumenthal étant connu pour avoir des sources extrêmement solides :

« ...The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld's potential replacement, personally asking a retired four-star general if he would accept the position, a reliable source close to the general told me. But the former president's effort failed, apparently rebuffed by the current president. When seven retired generals who had been commanders in Iraq demanded Rumsfeld's resignation in April, the younger Bush leapt to his defense. “I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain,” he said. His endorsement of Rumsfeld was a rebuke not only to the generals but also to his father. »

Commentaire de Blumenthal: « The elder Bush's intervention was an extraordinary attempt to rescue simultaneously his son, the family legacy and the country. » C’est aussi un signe convaincant du climat régnant au sein de l’"establishment, jusqu’à l’intérieur des familles dynastiques elles-mêmes. Le désarroi est si grand que le cadre légal est traversé d’interférences personnelles, de conflits intimes, de décisions prises pour la simple affirmation d’une autorité en lambeaux et d’une psychologie illuminée (« I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain »). Le cadre et les causes des grandes décisions stratégiques, aujourd’hui aux USA, relèvent des démarches les plus primaires entre individus, des ragots autant que des complexes pseudo-oedipiens, sorte de soap tragédie grecque revue à la mode hollywoodienne.

Blumenthal nous rappelle le passé des relations des deux Bush, puisqu’il s’agit désormais d’un élément important de l’avenir du monde :

« … The current president had previously rejected entreaties from party establishment figures to revamp his administration with new appointments. There was no one left to approach him except his father. This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama — from the drunken young man challenging his father to go ‘mano a mano’ on the front lawn of the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W.'s mismanagement of Harken Energy. For the father, parental responsibility never ends. But for the son, rebellion continues. When journalist Bob Woodward asked George W. Bush if he had consulted his father before invading Iraq, he replied, “He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to.” »

Mis en ligne le 8 juin 2006 à 16H11