IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1427 
Congratulating General David Howell Petraeus on being appointed 
Commander of the United States Central Command, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 
Mr. MCCOTTER (for himself, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BROWN of South Carolina, 
Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. FORTUN˜O, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. 
LAMBORN, and Mr. LINDER) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating General David Howell Petraeus on being ap-
pointed Commander of the United States Central Com-
mand, and for other purposes. 
Whereas, on November 7, 1952, David Howell Petraeus was 
born in Cornwall, New York; 
Whereas in 1974, General Petraeus graduated at the top of 
his class from the United States Military Academy at 
West Point where he received a commission in the United 
States Army infantry; 
Whereas following commissioning and successful completion 
of Ranger School, as a distinguished graduate, General 
Petraeus was assigned to the 509th Airborne Battalion 
Combat team; 
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Whereas in 1983, General Petraeus earned the General 
George C. Marshall Award as the top graduate of the 
United States Army Command and General Staff Col-
lege; 
Whereas in 1985, General Petraeus earned his master’s de-
gree and in 1987 his doctorate degree from the Woodrow 
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at 
Princeton University; 
Whereas from 2001 to 2002, General Petraeus effectively 
served a 10-month tour in Bosnia and Herzegovina as 
part of Operation Joint Forge where he was the Assist-
ant Chief of Staff for Operations of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization (NATO) Stabilization Force and the 
Deputy Commander of the United States Joint Inter-
agency Counter-Terrorism Task Force—Bosnia; 
Whereas in 2003, General Petraeus successfully commanded 
the 101st Airborne Division, during which he led the 
‘‘Screaming Eagles’’ in combat throughout the first year 
of Operation Iraqi Freedom; 
Whereas in June 2004, General Petraeus was appointed the 
first commander of the Multi-National Security Transi-
tion Command—Iraq which was responsible for training, 
equipping, and mentoring Iraq’s growing Army, Police, 
and other security forces; 
Whereas from 2005 until February 2007, General Petraeus 
served as Commanding General, United States Army 
Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 
where, under his intellectual and academic leadership, he 
rewrote the military’s counterinsurgency manual, which 
presents new and innovative concepts, tactics, techniques, 
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and procedures for executing counterinsurgency doctrine 
for the post-9/11 world; 
Whereas in January 2007, as part of a revised Iraqi strategy, 
General Petraeus was appointed as Commanding General 
of Multi-National Force—Iraq; 
Whereas, on February 10, 2007, General Petraeus took over 
command of the Multi-National Force—Iraq and oversaw 
the predeployment planning, training, employment, and 
execution of strategic surge operations; 
Whereas as Commander of the Multi-National Force—Iraq, 
General Petraeus has worked closely with the Govern-
ment of Iraq to carry out a successful strategy which fo-
cused on securing the population and relentlessly pur-
suing the enemy and taking back the streets for the Iraqi 
people thereby creating a prodemocratic grassroots move-
ment, in what has become iconically known as an ‘‘awak-
ening’’ among Iraqi citizens; 
Whereas the successful surge is responsible for attacks plum-
meting from a daily rate of 160 to 170 before the surge 
to about 25 to 30 most recently; 
Whereas as Commander of the Multi-National Force—Iraq, 
General Petraeus successfully continued to train, equip, 
and develop Iraq’s security forces to support local secu-
rity forces and to integrate these forces into the Iraqi 
Army and Police; 
Whereas thanks to the success of our United States combat 
forces during the surge, 70 percent of Iraqi Army battal-
ions are now taking lead in military operations; 
Whereas due to the success of the surge, United States 
Armed Forces are able to pull out and hand over security 
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responsibility for cities in 13 of Iraq’s 18 provinces, in-
cluding the Anbar province, to Iraqi security forces; 
Whereas in April 2008, General Petraeus was nominated to 
command the United States Central Command; and 
Whereas, on July 10, 2008, the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee confirmed General Petraeus as Commander of the 
United States Central Command by a vote of 95 to 2: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) 
congratulates 
General 
David 
Howell 
Petraeus on his well-deserved appointment as Com-
mander of the United States Central Command; 
(2) appreciates the impact General Petraeus’s 
visionary counter-insurgency strategy and tactics, in-
cluding the prioritization of ‘‘localized reconstruc-
tion’’ efforts, had in providing security in Iraq, fa-
cilitating Iraqi construction, and advancing the 
cause of our Nation’s victory over the enemy in Iraq; 
(3) commends General Petraeus for his tireless, 
prescient, and invaluable leadership of the surge of 
United States Armed Forces in the war for freedom 
against terrorism and leaving the citizens of Iraq the 
opportunity to live in a sovereign, stable, democratic, 
and free Iraq that is opposed to terrorism; 
(4) commends and expresses gratitude to the 
members of the United States Armed Forces on 
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their success and selfless service to defend our lib-
erty and extend liberty to the people of Iraq; and 
(5) remains committed to honor the sacrifices 
of our fallen and wounded soldiers by continuing to 
support the victory of our United States Armed 
Forces in Iraq and all theaters in our Nation’s un-
sought struggle against terrorism. 
Æ 
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