[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 861 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 861

  Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on 
 Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2006

Mr. Hyde submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee 
 on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on 
 Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a Global War on Terror, 
        a long and demanding struggle against an adversary that is driven by 
        hatred of American values and that is committed to imposing, by the use 
        of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;
Whereas for the past two decades, terrorists have used violence in a futile 
        attempt to intimidate the United States;
Whereas it is essential to the security of the American people and to world 
        security that the United States, together with its allies, take the 
        battle to the terrorists and to those who provide them assistance;
Whereas the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorists failed to stop free 
        elections in Afghanistan and the first popularly-elected President in 
        that nation's history has taken office;
Whereas the continued determination of Afghanistan, the United States, and the 
        North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be required to sustain a 
        sovereign, free, and secure Afghanistan;
Whereas the steadfast resolve of the United States and its partners since 
        September 11, 2001, helped persuade the government of Libya to surrender 
        its weapons of mass destruction;
Whereas by early 2003 Saddam Hussein and his criminal, Ba'athist regime in Iraq, 
        which had supported terrorists, constituted a threat against global 
        peace and security and was in violation of mandatory United Nations 
        Security Council Resolutions;
Whereas the mission of the United States and its Coalition partners, having 
        removed Saddam Hussein and his regime from power, is to establish a 
        sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq at peace with its neighbors;
Whereas the terrorists have declared Iraq to be the central front in their war 
        against all who oppose their ideology;
Whereas the Iraqi people, with the help of the United States and other Coalition 
        partners, have formed a permanent, representative government under a 
        newly ratified constitution;
Whereas the terrorists seek to destroy the new unity government because it 
        threatens the terrorists' aspirations for Iraq and the broader Middle 
        East;
Whereas United States Armed Forces, in coordination with Iraqi security forces 
        and Coalition and other friendly forces, have scored impressive 
        victories in Iraq including finding and killing the terrorist leader Abu 
        Musab al-Zarqawi;
Whereas Iraqi security forces are, over time, taking over from United States and 
        Coalition forces a growing proportion of independent operations and 
        increasingly lead the fight to secure Iraq;
Whereas the United States and Coalition servicemembers and civilians and the 
        members of the Iraqi security forces and those assisting them who have 
        made the ultimate sacrifice or been wounded in Iraq have done so nobly, 
        in the cause of freedom; and
Whereas the United States and its Coalition partners will continue to support 
        Iraq as part of the Global War on Terror: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives--
            (1) honors all those Americans who have taken an active 
        part in the Global War on Terror, whether as first responders 
        protecting the homeland, as servicemembers overseas, as 
        diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;
            (2) honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces 
        and of partners in the Coalition, and of the Iraqis and Afghans 
        who fight alongside them, especially those who have fallen or 
        been wounded in the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices 
        of their families and of others who risk their lives to help 
        defend freedom;
            (3) declares that it is not in the national security 
        interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the 
        withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from 
        Iraq;
            (4) declares that the United States is committed to the 
        completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure, 
        and united Iraq;
            (5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the 
        Iraqi people on the courage they have shown by participating, 
        in increasing millions, in the elections of 2005 and on the 
        formation of the first government under Iraq's new 
        constitution;
            (6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote global 
        peace and security by standing with the United States and other 
        Coalition partners to support the efforts of the Iraqi and 
        Afghan people to live in freedom; and
            (7) declares that the United States will prevail in the 
        Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to protect freedom 
        from the terrorist adversary.
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