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イラク到着と入れ替わりに、無言の帰国の英国兵。にもかかわらず、泥沼化してないだって。英国外相ジャック・ストローの間抜け発言。【Steve Bell の漫画です。】
03.07.03: Steve Bell on Jack Straw's denial of a "quagmire" in Iraq
c Steve Bell 2003
steve.bell@guardian.co.uk
Straw denies quagmire claims in Iraq
June 3 2003: Jack Straw yesterday claimed that the political and security
situation in Iraq was improving, in spite of attacks on US soldiers and sabotage
of electricity and oil supplies.
Special report: Iraq
イラク訪問から帰った英国外務大臣ジャック・ストローは昨日、「イラ
クでの政治的、また治安も改善している」と述べた。実際は、米兵への攻
撃や、電気、石油供給のサボタージュが続いているのに、である。
以下、イラク泥沼化を否定する、英国外務大臣ジャック・ストロー関連
の記事。
泥沼化否定にも関わらず、ジャック・ストローが空港からバグダッドへ
陸路行くのを米軍は安全を保障できなかった。待ち伏せ攻撃の危険もあり、
実際はブラック・ホーク・ヘリコプターを使って移動するだけだったよう
だ。
ちなみに、今まででイラク訪問をした米国高官はラムズフェルドだけれ
ども、危険で空港周辺から一歩も出られなかったと書いている。（ＴＶ映
像では随分自由に歩き回っているように見えたけれどネ、、、。）
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,989832,00.html
Straw denies allies are in quagmire
・ Foreign secretary's upbeat view contradicted by coalition officials
・ BBC in fresh row over soldier's death
・ Observer group formed
Ewen MacAskill in Baghdad
Thursday July 3, 2003
The Guardian
Jack Straw yesterday claimed that the political and security situation in Iraq
was improving, in spite of attacks on US soldiers and sabotage of electricity
and oil supplies.
The upbeat assessment by the foreign secretary - the highest-ranking politician
of the US-UK coalition to enter the centre of Baghdad since the fall of Saddam
Hussein - contrasted with views expressed by coalition officials on the ground.
One senior official said the reality was that "it feels worse", and that the
ambushes would slow reconstruction because US soldiers would "bunker down".
He added that Washington and London had an unrealistic expectation of what could
be achieved in a short time.
Paul Bremer, the US special envoy to Iraq, admitted in talks with Mr Straw held
in Saddam's former presidential palace that the US, crucially, had been slow in
getting going in the immediate aftermath of the war. He also volunteered that
the US had not put as much effort into post-war planning as into preparing for
the conflict.
The spate of attacks over the last week has forced President Bush and his
defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, on to the back foot.
Mr Straw, at a press conference in the former British embassy, denied that Iraq
was becoming a political and military quagmire. He blamed the lack of law and
order on "the remnants of the Ba'athist regime, along with some of the petty and
serious criminals that were let out of prison by Saddam before the conflict
began.
"The message from Bremer and the military commanders is that these actions
against the coalition forces will be dealt with."
His optimism was undercut by the fact that US forces were unable to guarantee
his security on the road from the airport into Baghdad, the scene of several
ambushes. Instead Mr Straw was ferried around in a US Black Hawk helicopter. And
in contrast to Mr Straw, the senior coalition official said: "Things have not
got better in the last week. It is difficult to get an accurate graph of
shooting incidents. It is certainly not better and, possibly, a little worse. I
think the coalition provisional authority is pretty unpopular. I think it is
misunderstood. There is no [Iraqi] media to get our message across."
The coalition did not have the answers yet, but, he said, it had better find
them soon - certainly within two years.
He blamed Iraqi resentment on impatience with the speed of political change and
unhappiness with services, such as the disruption of electricity in Baghdad, hit
by sabotage nine days ago.
This attack underlined the ease with which the Ba'ath party and Fedayeen militia
can disrupt restoration of services and pose a huge problem: if they can wreck
power supplies once, they can do it repeatedly.
John Sawyer, the British special envoy to Iraq, said that it was the success of
the US crackdown on Ba'athists that had forced them to switch to soft targets. "
Yes, we can't go round guarding every pylon," Mr Sawyer said. "But we can make
clear who is responsible and isolate them."
Mr Straw, visiting an Iraqi police academy, promised to consider a request to
send more British police to help with training.
Before flying to Baghdad, Mr Straw visited Basra to meet the British commander
in Iraq, Major General Sir Peter Hall, members of the Parachute Regiment, and
military police. He promised the last that Britain was not turning a blind eye
to the deaths last week of six of their number; the hunt would continue.
The most senior US politician to visit Baghdad is Mr Rumsfeld, but he did not go
beyond the airport perimeter because of the risk.
Mr Straw flew back to London last night at the end of a four-day trip that took
him to Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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