Le summun de la « mauvaise foi » et de la desinformation a ete atteint l’annee derniere lors du conflit declenche par la Georgie, il est pour le moins edifiant de relire des articles d’aout 2008 et de les comparer avec les rapports publies fin 2008 et en 2009 sur le deroulement exact des faits. En attendant de lire celui de la commission europenne dont la publication a ete reportee.
Today, the long-awaited publication of European Union’s independent report on the Georgia/S. Ossetia/Russia war is being delayed « for a more appropriate moment. » Is it because the report doesn’t agree with the US’ story on the war - and that VP Biden arrives there today to declare the US’ support for Saakhashvili - and once again to make claims that it was Russia who initiated the August 08 war ?
American reporters, with their « western » colleagues following dutifully along, spun the events as if it was « Russia who sent the invading force into Georgia. » Let’s get it straight : Georgia invaded S. Ossetia, and Russia intervened with force in this small disputed territory where they had kept UN/Georgian/American-approved « peacekeepers » since the early 90s.
Finally an independent report comes out nearly a year later that shows that Georgia’s Saakhashvili sent invading troops into S.Ossetia first - and the report is withheld from the public until some unknown time in the future. How can we continue to push a story that simply isn’t true or manipulate the publishing of the definitive report on this war ? Do we really believe that we can shout « black is white » long enough and loud enough that people will begin to believe us ?
Is this the way we teach our children to behave ? Or act in our families ? Or neighborhoods ? Or city councils ? How can we expect to regain world respect and trust with this kind of manipulation ?
Ce que je cite c’est la retranscription du discours qui a ete retransmis en direct a la television russe et non une declaration posterieure. Voir ici le distingo entre « joint press conference’’ et »joint statement’’ http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/events/details/2009/07/06_219175.shtml
Cette retranscription est egalement sur le site du Kremlin en russe et en anglais avec une video.
Ayant vu la conference a la television je me suis etonne de ne pas voir la totalite de la reponse de Barack Obama en ce qui concerne Vladimir Poutine, enfin quand je dis etonne j’exagere un peu... car cela devient une habitude chez nos amis journalistes. La derniere blague etant ’’les manoeuvres navales dans le port de Novorossiysk’’ ce 14 juillet : http://vivreenrussie.1fr1.net/medias-francophones-f27/bateaux-fantomes-t1769.htm
Ce qui est pour moi fort ’’subtil’’ ce sont les coupes de l’AFP car voici la suite du discours :
And my strong impression is, is that President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are working very effectively together.And our interest is dealing with the Russian government as a whole in order to achieve the improved bilateral relationship that I think can be accomplished.