standing and ongoing conflicts elsewhere in the Mid-
dle East region. 
(55) Congress declares that the National Strat-
egy for Victory in Iraq as transmitted by the Presi-
dent to Congress on November 30, 2005, is not spe-
cific regarding the vital measures and other bench-
marks in Iraq’s political, security, infrastructure, 
and economic development and governance capacity 
development at and between the various levels of 
government in Iraq that need to be met to signal to 
Congress and the American people that victory in 
Iraq has been achieved and the majority of United 
States Armed Forces currently deployed in Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom can be redeployed to their 
peacetime duty stations. 
(56) Congress declares that the plan entitled 
‘‘The New Way Forward in Iraq’’, as presented to 
the American people by the President on January 
10, 2007, is not specific regarding the vital meas-
ures and other benchmarks in Iraq’s political, secu-
rity, infrastructure, and economic development and 
governance capacity development at and between the 
various levels of government in Iraq that need to be 
met to signal to Congress and the American people 
that victory in Iraq has been achieved and the ma-
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jority of the United States Armed Forces currently 
deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom can be rede-
ployed to their peacetime duty stations. 
(57) Congress notes the findings of the reports 
submitted to Congress pursuant to the section enti-
tled ‘‘Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq’’ of 
the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee 
of Conference accompanying Conference Report 
109–72 of the bill, H.R. 1268 (the Emergency Sup-
plemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Glob-
al War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005; Public 
Law 109–13), that identify security, economic, and 
Iraqi Security Force training performance standards 
and goals, accompanied by a notional timetable for 
achieving these goals. 
(58) Congress notes the findings of the report 
submitted to Congress pursuant to the United 
States Policy in Iraq Act (section 1227 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2006; Public Law 109–163), that identify the cur-
rent military mission and the diplomatic, political, 
economic, and military measures that are being or 
have been undertaken to successfully complete or 
support that mission. 
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(59) Congress notes the findings of the report 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 9010 of 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2007 (division A of Public Law 109-289), that in-
clude specific performance indicators and measures 
of progress toward political, economic, and security 
stability in Iraq, but also notes that the report is not 
a comprehensive, single-source of content, informa-
tion, data, and analysis about the combined efforts 
or the future strategy of the United States, Coalition 
countries, or the Government of Iraq that Congress 
requires to fulfill its constitutional oversight respon-
sibilities. 
(60) Congress is concerned that the findings of 
the reports described in paragraphs (57), (58), and 
(59) do not provide sufficient content, information, 
data, and analysis for Congress to comprehensively 
evaluate the mission in Iraq. 
(61) Congress notes the advantages of consoli-
dating the reports described in paragraphs (57), 
(58), and (59) into a single report to be transmitted 
to Congress pursuant to section 4 of this Act. 
(62) Congress urges that the reports trans-
mitted pursuant to section 4 of this Act be orga-
nized and written to provide content, information, 
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data, and analysis on the mission in Iraq as it per-
tains to the political, security, infrastructure, and 
economic development of and governance capacity 
building at and between the various levels of govern-
ment in Iraq. 
(63) Congress further urges that the reports 
transmitted pursuant to section 4 of this Act be or-
ganized and written to provide content, information, 
data, and analysis on United States and Coalition 
countries efforts to establish maintain, stabilize, and 
conciliate relations between Iraq, neighboring states, 
regional states, and the international community. 
(64) Congress moreover urges that, if the Presi-
dent decides not to adopt and implement some or all 
of the recommendations offered by the Iraq Study 
Group in the Group’s report, the reports transmitted 
pursuant to section 4 of this Act should include con-
tent, information, data, and analysis to explain and 
justify the rationale as to why such recommenda-
tions were not adopted and implemented. 
(65) It is the duty of Congress under Article I, 
Section 8 of the United States Constitution to ‘‘raise 
and support Armies,’’ and that by requiring the 
President to report to Congress on Operation Iraqi 
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Freedom, Congress is better able to carry out this 
constitutional duty. 
(66) Congress declares that satisfactory compli-
ance with the letter and spirit of the reports re-
quired to be transmitted pursuant to section 4 of 
this Act, and compliance with the intended quality 
of such reports, will provide Congress and the Amer-
ican people a firm basis for which to consider and 
evaluate the utility of continuing current, or pro-
viding for future, economic, reconstruction, and 
other assistance to, or for the benefit of, the Govern-
ment of Iraq. 
SEC. 4. REPORT. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall, in ac-
cordance with, in support of, and to more clearly define 
the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and the plan 
entitled ‘‘The New Way Forward in Iraq’’, transmit to 
Congress a report that— 
(1) consolidates the findings of the reports re-
quired by— 
(A) the section entitled ‘‘Measuring Sta-
bility and Security in Iraq’’ of the Joint Ex-
planatory Statement of the Committee of Con-
ference accompanying Conference Report 109– 
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72 of the bill, H.R. 1268 (the Emergency Sup-
plemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the 
Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 
2005; Public Law 109–13); 
(B) the United States Policy in Iraq Act 
(section 1227 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2006; Public Law 
109–163); and 
(C) section 9010 of the Department of De-
fense Appropriations Act, 2007 (division A of 
Public Law 109–289); 
(2) identifies the specific or vital measures or 
other benchmarks that define the terms of the of 
completion of and conditions for victory for Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom and their correlation with the 
strategic objectives and lines of action outlined in 
the appendix of the National Strategy for Victory in 
Iraq and the information provided in the plan enti-
tled ‘‘The New Way Forward in Iraq’’; 
(3) describes the nature and substance of the 
programs implemented to achieve such strategic ob-
jectives and lines of action; and 
(4) analyzes using metrics the effectiveness of 
such programs toward achieving the specific vital 
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measures or other benchmarks required to be identi-
fied by paragraph (2). 
(b) UPDATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall transmit 
to Congress an update of the report required by sub-
section (a) not less than once every 90 days after 
the date on which the President transmits the report 
required by such subsection until such time as Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom has been completed. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Each update of the report— 
(A) may reflect adjustments to the specific 
or vital measures or other benchmarks identi-
fied pursuant to subsection (a)(2), or to the na-
ture or substance of the programs described in 
subsection (a)(3), as realties, circumstances, 
and events in Iraq change or evolve; 
(B) shall include detailed justifications as 
to why adjustments to such specific or vital 
measures or other benchmarks, or to the nature 
or substance of such programs, were made; and 
(C) shall include detailed information re-
garding the progress toward implementing the 
multilateral agreement required by section 5 of 
this Act. 
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(c) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.—The report re-
quired by subsection (a) and updates of the report re-
quired by subsection (b)— 
(1) shall be organized and written to provide 
content, information, data, and analysis on the com-
plex interdependent nature of the challenges associ-
ated with the political, security, infrastructure, and 
economic development of and governance capacity 
building at and between the various levels of govern-
ment in Iraq, and to include efforts on the part of 
the United States and Coalition countries to estab-
lish, maintain, stabilize, and conciliate relations be-
tween Iraq, neighboring states, regional states, and 
the international community; 
(2) shall be accompanied by a comprehensive 
all-source intelligence analysis of Iraq that includes 
information by and from the various levels of gov-
ernment in Iraq, and to include efforts on the part 
of the United States and Coalition countries to es-
tablish, maintain, stabilize, and conciliate relations 
between Iraq, neighboring states, regional states, 
and the international community; 
(3) shall be accompanied by an analysis of the 
extent to which the process called for by the provi-
sions of Article 140 of the Constitution of the Re-
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public of Iraq can be implemented by the Govern-
ment of Iraq in an unbiased, uniform, and equitable 
manner during calendar year 2007, to include a de-
scription of, and justification for, actions needed to 
be taken by the United States, Coalition countries, 
the Government of Iraq, the Kurdish Regional Gov-
ernment in Iraq, and the provincial government of 
Kirkuk, neighboring and regional governments, and 
the international community to ensure that such 
process proceeds in a unbiased, uniform, and equi-
table manner during calendar year 2007 or during 
future years; and 
(4) shall, if the President decides not to adopt 
and implement some or all of the recommendations 
offered by the Iraq Study Group in the Group’s re-
port, include content, data, information, and anal-
ysis to explain and justify the rationale as to why 
such recommendations were not adopted and imple-
mented. 
(d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
and updates of the report required by subsection (b) shall 
be transmitted in unclassified form but may contain a 
classified annex. 
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SEC. 5. MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT TO HELP PROVIDE 
FOR THE COMPLETION OF OPERATION IRAQI 
FREEDOM. 
(a) MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT.—Not later than 45 
days after the date on which the report required by section 
4(a) of this Act is transmitted to Congress pursuant to 
such section, the President shall seek to enter into a multi-
lateral agreement with Coalition countries, the Republic 
of Iraq, appropriate states in the Middle East region, and 
appropriate multilateral organizations to help provide for 
the completion of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
(b) TERMS.—It is the sense of Congress that, to the 
maximum extent practicable, the terms of the multilateral 
agreement referred to in subsection (a) should— 
(1) be based upon the findings of the report re-
quired by section 4 of this Act; and 
(2) be subject to adjustment or other amend-
ment, as provided for by subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of section 4(b)(2) of this Act, if appropriate and 
agreed to by the signatory parties. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) COALITION COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘Coali-
tion countries’’ means those countries identified by 
the Department of State and Department of Defense 
as contributing military forces, materiel, diplomatic 
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support, and economic, technical, and training as-
sistance to the Government of Iraq in support of Op-
eration Iraqi Freedom. 
(2) COALITION FORCES.—The term ‘‘Coalition 
Forces’’ means the military forces of Coalition coun-
tries operating in support of Operation Iraqi Free-
dom. 
(3) UNBIASED, 
UNIFORM, 
AND
EQUITABLE 
MANNER.—The term ‘‘unbiased, uniform, and equi-
table manner’’ means without regard to religion, 
race, ethnic identity, gender, age, or geographic loca-
tion. 
(4) VARIOUS
LEVELS
OF
GOVERNMENT
IN 
IRAQ.—The term ‘‘various levels of government in 
Iraq’’ means the national, capital city, regional, pro-
vincial, provincial capital city, and strategic munic-
ipal levels of government in Iraq. 
(5) VIOLENT
TRANSNATIONAL
ENTITY.—The 
term ‘‘violent transnational entity’’ means a global, 
regional, or local entity that threatens the national 
security of the United States by acts or threats of 
violence, terrorism, illicit trafficking of arms (to in-
clude nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and 
technology), piracy, or international organized crime 
(to include financial transactions, the smuggling of 
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narcotics or persons, uncontrolled refugee migration, 
and environmental damage conducted across inter-
national borders). 
Æ 
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