[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1326 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1326

   Calling on the President to respect and honor Iraq's sovereignty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2008

   Ms. Waters (for herself, Ms. Woolsey, and Ms. Lee) submitted the 
  following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Calling on the President to respect and honor Iraq's sovereignty.

Whereas on May 24, 2007, President George Bush stated, ``We are there at the 
        invitation of the Iraqi Government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve 
        million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It's their 
        government's choice. If they were to say, `leave,' we would leave'';
Whereas Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called for a timetable for 
        redeployment of United States forces from Iraq to be included in the 
        security agreement being negotiated by President Bush between Iraq and 
        the United States, saying, ``The direction we are taking is to have a 
        memorandum of understanding either for the departure of the forces or to 
        have a timetable for their withdrawal'';
Whereas Iraqi National Security Adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said, ``We will not 
        accept a memorandum of understanding without having time line horizons 
        for the cessation of combat operations as well as the departure of all 
        the combat brigades'';
Whereas disregarding Iraq's request for the redeployment of United States 
        military forces would cause America's presence to be seen as an open-
        ended occupation of Iraq;
Whereas the United States has already spent roughly $524,000,000,000 on the war 
        in Iraq;
Whereas the total cost of the war in Iraq may exceed $3,000,000,000,000 when 
        secondary costs are included, according calculations by Nobel Prize-
        winning economist Joseph Stiglitz;
Whereas 88 percent of current and former military officers agree with the 
        statement that ``the demands of the Iraq war have stretched the United 
        States military dangerously thin'', according to a recent survey by the 
        Center for a New American Security;
Whereas after nearly 5 and a half years into the war in Iraq, more than 4,100 
        American troops have been killed, tens of thousands have suffered 
        serious physical injuries, and hundreds of thousands suffer from mental 
        health issues;
Whereas according to recent polls, a large majority of the Iraqi public is 
        against the American military presence in Iraq and would like to see a 
        timetable set for the redeployment of United States troops;
Whereas members of the Iraqi Parliament delivered a letter to the leaders of 
        Congress on June 4, 2008, on behalf of a majority of the 275-member 
        Parliament, stating that they ``strongly reject any military, security, 
        economic, commercial, agricultural, investment, or political agreement 
        with the United States that is not linked to clear mechanisms that 
        obligate the occupying American military forces to fully withdraw from 
        Iraq, in accordance with a declared timetable and without leaving behind 
        any military bases, soldiers, or hired fighters'';
Whereas according to recent polls, a large majority of the American public is 
        against the war in Iraq and would like to see a timetable set for the 
        redeployment of our troops; and
Whereas a majority in the House of Representatives recently voted for language 
        stating that ``the war in Iraq should end as safely and quickly as 
        possible and our troops should be brought home'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls on the President 
to--
            (1) respect Iraq's sovereignty and redeploy our military if 
        asked to do so by the Government of Iraq; and
            (2) present plans to Congress, in classified and 
        unclassified form, for the safe redeployment of our troops and 
        military contractors from Iraq.
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