Iraq’s government has been under pressure to expel the US since January 2020, when a US drone strike in Baghdad killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and PMF leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. After the strike, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel US forces, but the US refused to leave.
A lot of us saw this happening way back in 2003. US is not going to leave.
Super cool that new privates headed to Iraq weren’t alive when that particular conflict started. Super cooool