Pompeo: ‘We are confident that the Iraqi people want the United States to continue to be there’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended the continued U.S. presence in Iraq even as the Iraqi parliament convened a special session to discuss expelling American troops after the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. “The prime minister is the acting prime minister. … He’s under enormous threats from the very Iranian…