It hasn’t been all that long since the last of US troops left Iraq and already another nation, France, is showing some designs on their own presence in Baghdad.
French Ambassador Denys Gauer raised the issue today in a speech, suggesting his nation was prepared to provide “equipment, training and intelligence” to Iraq’s military in quelling the growing sectarian unrest in their nation. Gauer went on to add that this “of course” included sales of weapons to the Maliki government.
“This is an additional area in which we are totally open to cooperate with the Iraqi authorities, and to meet their needs.” Details of the offer were unclear, though training operations could well involve a French military presence.
It’s quite a shift from 2003, when French officials opposed the invasion of Iraq. Yet the Hollande government is far afield of the Chirac government, and has shown itself eager to engage in military entanglements the world over. Involvement in Iraq would be in keeping with their recent, aggressive foreign policy.
All France has to do is to stop supporting Sunni Salafi extremists in Iraq, arming them and paying their salaries. And France can do it easily by taking to their Saudi and Gulf friends, who do most of the dirty work, including financing, for the Western geopolitical goals. Those bombers, just like the Salafis under hudreds of names and flags in Syria, are OUR Western groud forces for building imperial future. It turns out that these groud forces cost a great deal, cannot be controlled, perpetrate massive attrocites with unbelievable imaginagion — and force us to cover up for their extermist insanity. And to top it off, they do not listen any more to anyone — except those who PAY and supply their arms, explosives, cars, gas and salaries for themselves, and remittances to families. So, time to stop this at the source, and Hollande and his oily agenda are no match for Iraqis that have seen it all from Western sweet talkers.
good take on the situation- reminds one of the iran/iraq war where the west was happy see both sides fight and degrade each other…they tended to support one side over the other of course, but the object was divide and rule…..lets hope that the iraqis don't buy into this deadly game