IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 706 
Honoring all members of the Armed Forces and civilian personnel serving 
in harm’s way and pledging to debate policy decisions regarding the 
war in Iraq without attacking the integrity of any person, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2007 
Mr. HALL of New York (for himself, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, 
Mr. ENGEL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 
MCDERMOTT, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. STARK, Mr. FARR, and Mrs. 
LOWEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring all members of the Armed Forces and civilian 
personnel serving in harm’s way and pledging to debate 
policy decisions regarding the war in Iraq without attack-
ing the integrity of any person, and for other purposes. 
Whereas on September 26, 2007, right wing radio commen-
tator Rush Limbaugh referred to former soldiers who re-
turn home and speak in opposition to the war in Iraq as 
‘‘phony soldiers’’; 
Whereas Major General John Batiste (Ret.), a 31-year Army 
veteran, a graduate of the United States Military Acad-
emy, West Point, and former Commanding General of 
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the First Infantry Division in Iraq, is a strong critic of 
the management of the Iraq war and has stated that the 
President has ‘‘pursued a failed strategy that is breaking 
our great Army and that the President’s actions in Iraq 
have placed our nation in great peril’’; 
Whereas Major General Paul Eaton (Ret.), a 33-year Army 
veteran, a graduate of the United States Military Acad-
emy, West Point, and former Commanding General of 
the command assigned with reestablishing the Iraqi Secu-
rity Forces, stated that because of the war in Iraq that 
‘‘our military is overcommitted and America is less se-
cure’’; 
Whereas seven members of the 82nd Airborne, Army spe-
cialist Buddhika Jayamaha, Sergeant Wesley D. Smith, 
Sergeant Jeremy Roebuck, Sergeant Omar Mora, Ser-
geant Edward Sandmeier, Staff Sergeant Yance T. Gray, 
and Staff Sergeant Jeremy A. Murphy, said in an opin-
ion article in the New York Times that ‘‘reports that a 
majority of Iraqi Army commanders are now reliable 
partners can be considered only misleading rhetoric’’; 
Whereas these men further said ‘‘to believe that Americans, 
with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluc-
tant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population 
and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched’’ and ‘‘we 
see that a vast majority of Iraqis feel increasingly inse-
cure and view us as an occupation force that has failed 
to produce normalcy after four years and is increasingly 
unlikely to do so as we continue to arm each warring 
side’’; and 
Whereas on August 12, 2007, Staff Sergeant Murphy was se-
riously wounded in the line of duty and on September 10, 
2007, Staff Sergeant Yance Gray and Sergeant Omar 
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Mora were killed in the line of duty in Iraq: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the service of General John Ba-
tiste, General Paul Eaton, Army specialist Buddhika 
Jayamaha, Sergeant Wesley D. Smith, Sergeant 
Jeremy Roebuck, Sergeant Edward Sandmeier, as 
well as all other members of the Armed Forces serv-
ing in good standing, in the defense of the United 
States and honors the personal sacrifices made by 
these men and their families, and other members of 
the Armed Forces and their families, to serve with 
distinction; 
(2) recognizes the service and mourns the loss 
of Sergeant Omar Mora, Staff Sergeant Yance T. 
Gray, and the 3,784 members of the Armed Forces 
who have died in Iraq as of September 27, 2007, 
and extends its sympathies to their families; 
(3) recognizes the service and sacrifice of Staff 
Sergeant Jeremy A. Murphy, and the more than 
24,000 members of the Armed Forces wounded in 
Iraq; 
(4) rejects conservative commentator Rush 
Limbaugh’s opinion that any of the individuals listed 
above are ‘‘phony soldiers’’; 
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(5) condemns in the strongest possible terms 
the personal attacks made by Rush Limbaugh im-
pugning the integrity and professionalism of any 
members of the Nation’s Armed Forces; 
(6) honors all members of the Armed Forces 
and civilian personnel serving in harm’s way, as well 
as their families; and 
(7) pledges to debate policy decisions regarding 
the war in Iraq without attacking the integrity of 
any person, regardless of his or her position on the 
war. 
Æ 
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