IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 184 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding additional steps to expedite the 
success of the United States in Iraq, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 22, 2005 
Mr. SKELTON (for himself and Ms. HARMAN) submitted the following concur-
rent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 
and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding additional steps 
to expedite the success of the United States in Iraq, 
and for other purposes. 
Whereas the key to the success of the United States mission 
in Iraq and of the Iraqi nation in the long-term is the 
development of self-sustaining and operationally capable 
Iraqi security forces able to provide for the independent 
security of their country; 
Whereas the achievement of this goal will require additional 
improvements in the quality of the Iraqi security forces, 
as well as increasing the numbers of such security forces,
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and the acceleration of training efforts for such security 
forces; 
Whereas the United States military needs better intelligence 
regarding the insurgent forces that it is facing in Iraq; 
Whereas the embedding of United States military forces in 
‘‘transition teams’’ is an effective technique for the train-
ing and mentoring of Iraqi security forces; 
Whereas the effort to stand-up viable Iraqi security forces 
able to provide for their own security will still take many 
months and perhaps years unless there is a substantial 
infusion of additional resources and trainers as soon as 
possible; 
Whereas the time and difficulty associated with the training 
of Iraqi security forces to the point where such security 
forces can sustain themselves and provide security for 
themselves and their country will require the continued 
rotation of United States military forces to fight the in-
surgency in Iraq; 
Whereas the United States military, and United States Army 
in particular, continue to show increasingly dangerous 
levels of strain as the war in Iraq and the global war on 
terrorism continue to demand sustained high levels of 
operational tempo; 
Whereas to meet a critical need in the short term, the United 
States Army has reduced quality standards by enlisting 
fewer high school graduates, retaining problematic re-
cruits, and relaxing commissioning qualifications for offi-
cers; 
Whereas these measures by the United States Army raise 
concern about whether the Army will continue to be as 
effective in its operations in Iraq as it has been, as well
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as about the future ability of the Army to operate in high 
technology battlefield environments; and 
Whereas support by the people of the United States is vital 
to sustaining the war effort in Iraq, and that support 
must be reinvigorated if it is to sustain the United States 
military through current and future operations in Iraq: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the United States should deploy additional 
transition teams to accelerate the training of Iraqi 
security forces and should backfill those personnel 
with personnel from other services if needed given 
the critical nature of this mission; 
(2) the United States should urge the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other 
international organizations to take a more prominent 
role in the training of Iraqi security forces as the 
most direct way to expedite the establishment of 
Iraq’s long-term security; 
(3) the President and the Secretary of Defense 
should develop a comprehensive plan to deal with the 
urgent problems that the United States military, in 
particular the United States Army, is experiencing 
as a result of continued high operational tempo; and
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(4) the President should develop and explain to 
the people of the United States a strategy for suc-
cess in Iraq which includes, at a minimum— 
(A) a plan to train Iraqi Army and police 
forces faster and more effectively; 
(B) 
identifiable 
milestones 
by 
which 
progress in the training of Iraqi Army and po-
lice forces may be assessed; and 
(C) a plan providing for the withdrawal of 
United States military forces from Iraq after 
the milestones described in subparagraph (B) 
are achieved and Iraqi security forces are capa-
ble of providing for Iraq’s security on a self-sus-
taining basis. 
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