IV 
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 govern-
ment’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 de-
parture of the forces or to have a timetable for their 
withdrawal’’; 
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•HRES 1326 IH 
Whereas Iraqi National Security Adviser, Mowaffak al- 
Rubaie, said, ‘‘We will not accept a memorandum of un-
derstanding without having time line horizons for the ces-
sation 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 pres-
ence 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 dan-
gerously thin’’, according to a recent survey by the Cen-
ter 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 rede-
ployment 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 agree-
ment with the United States that is not linked to clear 
mechanisms that obligate the occupying American mili-
tary 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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