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BAGHDAD — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pledged Sunday that the United States would maintain “intense political involvement” in Iraq, even as the tens of thousands of U.S. troops withdraw by next year.
Pelosi, an opponent of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, arrived in Baghdad for a surprise, one-day visit and talks with Iraqi officials aimed in part at charting a changing relationship.
“We will have intense political involvement as we go forward,” Pelosi said at a brief news conference that followed a 45-minute meeting with Ayad al-Samarraie, the new parliament speaker and an influential Sunni leader.
