SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iraq Strategic Agree-
ment Review Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITION. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘long-term security, economic, 
or political agreement with the Government of Iraq’’ 
means any agreement or commitment of more than one 
year, which is made by the President or any officer, em-
ployee, or representative of the executive branch of the 
Government of the United States with the Government of 
Iraq that includes— 
(1) the basing of the Armed Forces of the 
United States within the territory of Iraq; 
(2) defending Iraq’s system of government from 
internal and external threats; 
(3) providing security assurances and commit-
ments to deter foreign aggression against Iraq; 
(4) the military training or equipping of the 
Iraqi Security Forces; 
(5) economic, monetary, material and technical 
commerce, and arrangements; or 
(6) diplomatic and political understandings. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Under Article I of the Constitution of the 
United States, the Congress has the power to pro-
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vide for the common defense, to regulate commerce 
with foreign nations, to raise, support, provide, and 
maintain the military, and to make rules for the 
Government and regulation of the military. 
(2) Under Article II of the Constitution of the 
United States, the President is the Commander in 
Chief of the military and has the power to receive 
Ambassadors and other public ministers. 
(3) Under Article II of the Constitution of the 
United States, the President has the right to make 
treaties by and with the advice and consent of two- 
thirds of the Senate. 
(4) The North Atlantic Treaty, which created 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 
entered into force on August 24, 1949, after ap-
proval by the Senate with each protocol providing 
for the accession of an additional country approved 
by the Senate. 
(5) The Mutual Defense Treaty between the 
United States and South Korea, which established a 
long-term United States military presence on the 
Korean peninsula, entered into force on November 
17, 1954, after approval by the Senate. 
(6) The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Se-
curity between the United States and Japan, which 
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established a long-term United States military pres-
ence in Japan, entered into force on June 23, 1960, 
after approval by the Senate. 
(7) On June 1, 2007, Secretary of Defense 
Robert Gates discussed a ‘‘long and enduring pres-
ence’’ in Iraq of which the ‘‘Korea model’’ and the 
‘‘security relationship that we have with Japan’’ are 
examples. 
(8) On November 26, 2007, President George 
W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki 
signed a ‘‘Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term 
Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between 
the Republic of Iraq and the United States of Amer-
ica’’, outlining the parameters for negotiation of a 
long-term relationship in the security, economic, po-
litical, diplomatic, and cultural spheres. 
(9) The Declaration of Principles include, ‘‘sup-
porting the Republic of Iraq in defending its demo-
cratic system against internal and external threats’’, 
‘‘providing security assurances and commitments to 
the Republic of Iraq to deter foreign aggression 
against Iraq’’, and ‘‘supporting the Republic of Iraq 
in training, equipping, and arming the Iraqi Security 
Forces’’. 
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(10) On November 26, 2007, Assistant to the 
President and Deputy National Security Advisor for 
Iraq and Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Douglas 
E. Lute, stated that he does not ‘‘anticipate now 
that these negotiations [under the Declaration of 
Principles] will lead to the status of a formal treaty 
which would then bring us to formal negotiations or 
formal inputs from the Congress’’. 
(11) On November 26, 2007, Assistant to the 
President and Deputy National Security Advisor for 
Iraq and Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Douglas 
E. Lute, further stated that the ‘‘target’’ to conclude 
negotiations is July 2008. 
SEC. 4. CONSULTATIONS WITH CONGRESS. 
(a) CONSULTATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Immediately upon the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
the Secretary of Defense, and any other necessary 
officer, employee, or representative of the executive 
branch of the Government of the United States shall 
commence consultations with the congressional com-
mittees and leadership described in paragraph (2) on 
any potential long-term security, economic, or polit-
ical agreement with the Government of Iraq. 
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(2) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND LEAD-
ERSHIP DESCRIBED.—The congressional committees 
and leadership referred to in paragraph (1) are— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; 
(B) the Speaker, majority leader, and mi-
nority leader of the House of Representatives 
and majority leader and minority leader of the 
Senate; and 
(C) any other congressional committee, 
Senator, or Member of the House of Represent-
atives that requests consultations under para-
graph (1). 
(b) FRAMEWORK.—Consultations required under 
subsection (a) shall include full and complete transparency 
of all security, economic, political, and other arrangements 
under consideration for the agreement. 
(c) TIMEFRAME.—Consultations required under sub-
section (a) shall continue throughout the period of nego-
tiations with the Government of Iraq to conclude the 
agreement. 
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SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) full Iraqi sovereignty over its territories, wa-
ters, and airspace, and Iraqi control over its armed 
forces and administrative institutions is in the na-
tional interest of the United States; and 
(2) any long-term security, economic, or polit-
ical agreement with the Government of Iraq that is 
not in the form of a treaty with respect to which the 
Senate has given its advice and consent to ratifica-
tion under Article II of the Constitution of the 
United States does not have the force and effect of 
law. 
SEC. 6. LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS. 
No funds made available by any Act of Congress shall 
be obligated or expended for the implementation of any 
long-term security, economic, or political agreement with 
the Government of Iraq unless the agreement is in the 
form of a treaty with respect to which the Senate has 
given its advice and consent to ratification under Article 
II of the Constitution of the United States. 
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