IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 984 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Iraq is in the 
midst of a civil war since the February 22, 2006, bombing of the 
Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, one of the holiest places for Shiite 
Muslims. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 
Ms. WATERS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
Iraq is in the midst of a civil war since the February 
22, 2006, bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, 
Iraq, one of the holiest places for Shiite Muslims. 
Whereas the United States went to war with Iraq on March 
19, 2003; 
Whereas the government of Saddam Hussein fell in April 
2003 as a result of the military action taken by the 
United States; 
Whereas since the fall of the Hussein government there has 
been a struggle to gain political power by numerous Iraqi 
political and religious factions; 
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•HRES 984 IH 
Whereas a majority of political scientists define a civil war 
as a war between different sections or parties of the same 
country or nation in which casualties are in excess of 
1,000; 
Whereas the death toll in Iraq has far exceeded this level, 
with a conservative estimate of 30,000 and may be in ex-
cess of 100,000 Iraqis killed since the war began on 
March 19, 2003; 
Whereas violence in Iraq has claimed the lives of approxi-
mately 100 Iraqis each day in May and June of 2006; 
Whereas Baghdad’s central morgue reported that it received 
the bodies of 1,855 people in July of 2006, an average 
of nearly 60 a day, representing a 16 percent increase 
compared to June and a 71 percent increase compared 
to January; 
Whereas the United Nations estimates that more than 
14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the first half 
of 2006; 
Whereas on February 22, 2006, Sunni Muslims bombed and 
partially destroyed the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one 
of Shiite Muslims holiest sites, unleashing a nationwide 
wave of sectarian violence between Iraq’s Shiite and 
Sunni Muslims which has yet to subside; 
Whereas Iraq’s former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a 
Shiite, declared in March 2006 that Iraq was in a civil 
war; 
Whereas Adnan Dulaimi, a Sunni Arab leader, said of the vi-
olence in Iraq, ‘‘It’s bloodshed and killing of the inno-
cents, killing the elderly and women and children. It’s 
mass killings. It’s nothing less than an undeclared civil 
war’’; 
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•HRES 984 IH 
Whereas Ayad Samaraie, a leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, 
said of the violence in Iraq, ‘‘It is actually a civil war’’; 
Whereas Fadhil Sharih, a leader of the Sadr movement, said 
of the violence in Iraq, ‘‘It seems clear that it’s been 
moving toward the direction of civil war’’; and 
Whereas a senior Iraqi government official was quoted by 
Reuters on July 23, 2006, saying of the violence in Iraq, 
‘‘If this is not civil war . . . then I don’t know what is’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that Iraq has been in the midst of a civil war 
since the February 22, 2006, bombing of the Golden 
Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, one of the holiest places for Shi-
ite Muslims. 
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