[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 35 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 35

Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should develop and 
  implement a plan to begin the immediate withdrawal of United States 
                        Armed Forces from Iraq.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 2005

 Ms. Woolsey (for herself, Ms. Lee, Mr. Owens, Mr. Stark, Mr. Hinchey, 
   Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Farr, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. Kilpatrick of 
  Michigan, Mr. McDermott, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Evans, Mr. Serrano, Ms. 
Waters, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Watson, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, 
   Mr. Davis of Illinois, and Ms. Moore of Wisconsin) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should develop and 
  implement a plan to begin the immediate withdrawal of United States 
                        Armed Forces from Iraq.

Whereas the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 
        2002 (Public Law 107-243) was passed by Congress on October 11, 2002, 
        and signed into law by the President on October 16, 2002;
Whereas Public Law 107-243 specifically cited Iraq's possession of weapons of 
        mass destruction and its harboring of members of the al Qaeda terrorist 
        organization as the foundation for the use of United States military 
        force against Iraq;
Whereas the Iraq Survey Group, led by American weapons inspector David Kay, was 
        enlisted by the President to search for weapons of mass destruction in 
        Iraq;
Whereas on October 2, 2003, David Kay wrote, in a statement prepared for the 
        House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on 
        Appropriations (Subcommittee on Defense), and the Senate Select 
        Committee on Intelligence that the Iraq Survey Group found no evidence 
        that Iraq had stockpiled unconventional weapons before the United 
        States-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003;
Whereas on October 6, 2004, Charles Duelfer, whom the President chose to 
        complete the work of the Iraq Survey Group, stated that the 1991 Persian 
        Gulf War and subsequent United Nations inspections destroyed Iraq's 
        illicit weapons capability and that the Iraq Survey Group found no 
        evidence of concerted efforts by Iraq to restart an illicit weapons 
        program;
Whereas on January 12, 2005, the President officially declared an end to the 
        search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq;
Whereas more than 1,350 members of the United States Armed Forces have been 
        killed as part of the ongoing combat operations in Iraq;
Whereas the Department of Defense has estimated that at least 10,300 members of 
        the Armed Forces have been wounded as part of the ongoing combat 
        operations in Iraq;
Whereas various estimates place the number of unarmed, innocent Iraqi civilians 
        killed as part of the ongoing combat operations in Iraq between 15,000 
        to 17,000 individuals, and possibly much higher;
Whereas more than $230,000,000,000 has been appropriated by Congress to finance 
        the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly $160,000,000,000 of which has 
        been allocated for military operations and reconstruction efforts in 
        Iraq;
Whereas in 2005 the President is expected to request Congress to appropriate as 
        much as $80,000,000,000 in additional funds for military operations and 
        reconstruction efforts in Iraq and elsewhere;
Whereas the President's former Chief Economic Adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, was 
        publicly criticized by high-ranking members of the Administration for 
        suggesting that the war in Iraq might cost as much as $100,000,000,000 
        to $200,000,000,000;
Whereas the legitimacy of the January 30, 2005, elections in Iraq has been 
        severely undermined by daily attacks by Iraqi insurgents, by the 
        decision to hold such an election before the country is safe enough to 
        ensure widespread participation, and by the fact that an occupying 
        military force is present within the country;
Whereas dozens of Iraqi election workers have been killed, and hundreds more 
        have quit their posts out of fear of being killed;
Whereas Iraqi insurgent forces remain capable of killing United States troops 
        and Iraqi police and soldiers throughout Iraq almost daily;
Whereas the very presence of 150,000 Americans in Iraq has become a rallying 
        point for dissatisfied people in the Arab world, and has both 
        intensified the rage of the extremist Muslim terrorists and also ignited 
        civil hostilities in Iraq that have made United States troops and Iraqi 
        civilians substantially less safe;
Whereas the removal of the United States military from Iraq will help diminish 
        one of the major causes of Iraq's growing insurgency;
Whereas the best way to truly support members of the United States Armed Forces 
        stationed in Iraq is to remove them from harm's way; and
Whereas the time has come to begin a withdrawal of United States Armed Forces 
        from Iraq before the United States becomes further embroiled in an 
        unnecessary and dangerous international conflict: Now, therefore be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the President should--
            (1) develop and implement a plan to begin the immediate 
        withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq;
            (2) develop and implement a plan for reconstructing Iraq's 
        civil and economic infrastructure;
            (3) convene an emergency meeting of Iraq's leadership, 
        Iraq's neighbors, the United Nations, and the Arab League to 
        create an international peacekeeping force in Iraq and to 
        replace United States Armed Forces in Iraq with Iraqi police 
        and Iraqi National Guard forces to ensure Iraq's security; and
            (4) take all steps necessary to provide the Iraqi people 
        with the opportunity to completely control their internal 
        affairs.
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