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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1326 

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

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 

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’’; 


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Whereas Iraqi National Security Adviser, Mowaffak alRubaie, 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, 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls on 

2 the President to— 

3 (1) respect Iraq’s sovereignty and redeploy our 

4 military if asked to do so by the Government of 

5 Iraq; and 

6 (2) present plans to Congress, in classified and 

7 unclassified form, for the safe redeployment of our 

8 troops and military contractors from Iraq. 

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