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France obeying US instructions in Iraq: Analyst

Friday, 30 September 2016 6:29 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 30 September 2016 6:31 PM ]

A Rafale fighter jet takes off from the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle sailing in the Mediterranean Sea on September 29, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Scott Bennett, a political commentator, believes France is simply a puppet of the United States and it is obeying the instructions of its American masters in Iraq.

“The French are simply responding to their American masters. They are doing what the American puppeteers are commanding France to do. So this is not any noble effort on France’s term. It is simply obeying what the CIA, the Department of Defense and the Obama administration and the State Department has been instructing it to do,” he stated.

He also said the United States is asking France to do its “dirty work” instead of putting its own soldiers and armaments in the ongoing conflict in Iraq.

This comes as French fighter jets have taken off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean on a so-called mission against Daesh terrorists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

On Friday, eight such warplanes were flown towards Mosul to purportedly support the Iraqi army in its push to liberate the embattled city, the last major stronghold of Daesh in the Arab country.

Bennett further argued the US and its NATO allies have a “financial interest” in destabilizing the Middle Eastern countries, adding that they will have the opportunity to “siphon off” and parasitically steal their national resources.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Bennett said the Us and its allies seek to remove President Bashar al-Assad to appease Qatar and Saudi Arabia which have been fomenting the war in Syria for the last five years.

He went on to say that France, Britain and the United States either are “blind” or completely “insane” in their policy because if Assad was removed, it would cause more chaos and violence in the Middle East.

“It is only the misguided blindness of some of these pathetic European leaders who do not have the wisdom or the strength to break out of the US stranglehold, these European leaders, these European countries are not being able to break out of that and see that they really need to be on the side of Assad in order to stop this Takfiri Wahhabism which is the prime cause of terrorism,” he said.

Washington and dozens of its allies have been conducting military operations in Syria and Iraq since September 2014. The campaign has fallen severely short of its avowed aim of dislodging Daesh.

France’s claim to be fighting the terrorists come as the country itself stands accused of supporting militants in Iraq and Syria.

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