[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 468 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 468

    Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should 
 encourage and support the Government of Iraq to pursue a policy that 
would realign the provinces of Iraq to reflect ethnic boundaries among 
Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds and provide opportunity for those groups to 
                exercise control over designated areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2006

  Ms. Waters 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 United States should 
 encourage and support the Government of Iraq to pursue a policy that 
would realign the provinces of Iraq to reflect ethnic boundaries among 
Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds and provide opportunity for those groups to 
                exercise control over designated areas.

Whereas the war with Iraq began on March 19, 2003;
Whereas the Iraq war has cost United States taxpayers more than $300 billion;
Whereas the Iraq war has claimed the lives of more than 2,600 members of the 
        United States Armed Forces and injured more than 18,000 others;
Whereas Iraq has descended into sectarian violence which has claimed the lives 
        of at least 30,000 and possibly more than 100,000 Iraqis;
Whereas the Government of Iraq and its security forces have not been able to 
        stem the violence in Iraq;
Whereas United States Armed Forces are caught in the middle of the sectarian 
        violence in Iraq; and
Whereas stability can not return to Iraq under the current United States policy 
        which requires United States Armed Forces to remain in Iraq 
        indefinitely: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),  
That it is the sense of Congress that the United States should 
encourage and support the Government of Iraq to pursue a policy that 
would realign the provinces of Iraq to reflect ethnic boundaries among 
Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds and provide opportunity for those groups to 
exercise control over designated areas.
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