IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 869 
Informing the American people of our Nation’s progress in the world War 
on Terror, defining the situation and the stakes in the battle against 
the terrorist enemy in the sovereign, democratic, and united nation 
of Iraq, and declaring the unwavering dedication of the United States 
to defend humanity, expand liberty, defeat the terrorist enemy, and 
win the world War on Terror. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2006 
Mr. MCCOTTER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee 
on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Informing the American people of our Nation’s progress in 
the world War on Terror, defining the situation and 
the stakes in the battle against the terrorist enemy in 
the sovereign, democratic, and united nation of Iraq, 
and declaring the unwavering dedication of the United 
States to defend humanity, expand liberty, defeat the 
terrorist enemy, and win the world War on Terror. 
Whereas for over a decade the terrorist enemy has targeted 
and murdered innocent Americans because our free re-
public will never waver in our devotion to our liberty and 
equality, or in the defense of humanity; 
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Whereas the terrorist enemy’s attacks upon our people trag-
ically culminated in the murder of over 3,000 innocent 
Americans on September 11, 2001; 
Whereas in this unsought struggle from the ashes we rose, 
and with our allies courageously engaged the terrorist 
enemy in the world War on Terror, a painful, purposeful, 
and inherently noble battle for the survival of our country 
and humanity’s free future; 
Whereas the world War on Terror will be won by the United 
States and our allies’ successful eradication of the ter-
rorist enemy, the elimination of state sponsorship of the 
terrorist enemy, the defense of our homeland and all hu-
manity from the terrorist enemy’s wanton murder, the 
prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction, the expansion of liberty to our fellow human 
beings, and the promotion of a clarion vision of and a 
transition to a more hopeful, peaceful, and prosperous 
life for oppressed peoples; 
Whereas in the world War on Terror, the United States and 
our allies have achieved momentous victories through the 
liberation of Afghanistan from the odious rule of the ter-
rorist-sponsoring Taliban, the renunciation by Libya of 
its terrorist practices and pursuit of weapons of mass de-
struction, the peaceful resolution of Lebanon’s Cedar rev-
olution, which freed its people from Syrian oppression, 
and the incipient expansion of democratic rights within 
other Middle Eastern nations; 
Whereas all of these and other victories were achieved 
through the courageous and, in the most sorrowful in-
stances, the ultimate, sacrifices of Americans, our allies, 
and these nations’ citizens; 
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Whereas however, other necessary steps along the path to un-
conditional victory in the world War on Terror have prov-
en less swift, especially in Iraq, where the murderous, 
terrorist-sponsoring, rogue regime of Saddam Hussein 
was summarily vanquished, but the now sovereign, demo-
cratic, and united nation’s new birth of freedom still 
hangs in the balance; 
Whereas the United States and our allies are not at war with 
the sovereign, democratic, and united nation of Iraq’s 
government or its lawful citizens, but with the terrorist 
enemy in Iraq who would again enslave free Iraqis be-
neath a sadistic dictatorship; 
Whereas the terrorist enemy, itself, has declared Iraq the 
central theater in the world War on Terror, because the 
sovereign, democratic, and united nation of Iraq will 
eliminate rather than abet the terrorist enemy, end Iraq’s 
use as a staging base for terrorist attacks against the 
United States, our allies, and all of humanity, serve as 
a beacon of hope to oppressed peoples throughout the 
world, and severely damage the terrorist enemy’s ability 
to pursue its invidious strategy to subjugate the broader 
Middle East and elsewhere under a barbarous yoke of to-
talitarianism; 
Whereas the military personnel and civilians of the United 
States, our allies, and Iraq have heroically and histori-
cally sacrificed of themselves, even unto death, in the 
great moral undertaking of attaining and sustaining a 
free, sovereign, and united Iraqi state and, thereby, of 
advancing the cause of victory in the world War on Ter-
ror; 
Whereas it is the commitment of the United States and our 
allies to finish our mission by facilitating Iraq’s establish-
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ment of the security forces necessary to unilaterally 
eradicate its terrorist enemy within, by the reconstruction 
of Iraq’s local and national economy and infrastructure, 
and by the preservation and promotion of Iraq’s nascent 
democracy from its local town councils to its national 
government; 
Whereas as evidenced by the elimination of Abu Musab al- 
Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi security 
forces are steadily assuming a growing proportion of 
independent operations and responsibilities from the 
United States and our allies’ forces in theater, and the 
final transition to Iraqi control of security within Iraq is 
attainable; 
Whereas then, if the United States and its allies abandon 
Iraq, and any sovereign democracy, in the face of ter-
rorist attack, the enemy will have won this battle, will 
have its horrific tactics rewarded and, so emboldened, will 
intensify its dark quest for world dominion; 
Whereas in such an event, betrayed Iraqis in the tens of 
thousands will be butchered; 
Whereas in such an event, every sacrifice, however great, of 
American, allied, and Iraqi military personnel and civil-
ians in the cause of liberty and humanity will be squan-
dered and desecrated; and 
Whereas then, the stakes in securing a sovereign and self-sus-
taining Iraqi democracy, and this immediate goal’s in-
separability from the overarching goals of defending hu-
manity, expanding liberty, and winning the world War on 
Terror, render the United States, our allies, and the Iraqi 
people duty-bound to prosecute this mission to its honor-
able and essential completion: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the terrorist enemy for com-
mencing the world’s unsought world War on Terror 
by murdering thousands of Americans and our fel-
low human beings across the globe; 
(2) affirms our Nation’s devotion to our liberty 
and equality, and our defense of humanity from the 
barbaric terrorist enemy; 
(3) recognizes the progress made in the world 
War on Terror in other nations of the world, includ-
ing Afghanistan, Canada, Central Asia, Colombia, 
Europe, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, 
Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and 
Yemen; 
(4) calls upon all nations and their citizens to 
courageously engage the terrorist enemy throughout 
the world’s War on Terror, in order to nobly save 
humanity’s free future; 
(5) reaffirms the United States dedication to 
winning the world War on Terror by eradicating the 
terrorist enemy, eliminating state sponsorship of the 
terrorist enemy, defending our homeland and all hu-
manity from the terrorist enemy’s wanton murder, 
preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction, expanding liberty to our fellow human 
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beings, and promoting a clarion vision of and a more 
hopeful, peaceful, and prosperous life for oppressed 
peoples; 
(6) recognizes the battle for a sovereign, demo-
cratic, and united Iraq is presently the central the-
ater in the world War on Terror; 
(7) reaffirms that the United States and our al-
lies are not at war with the sovereign, democratic, 
and united nation of Iraq’s government or its lawful 
citizens, but with the terrorist enemy in Iraq who 
would again enslave free Iraqis beneath a sadistic 
dictatorship; 
(8) reaffirms the United States will never aban-
don a sovereign democracy which is under terrorist 
attack; 
(9) recognizes and reaffirms the sovereign, 
democratic, and united nation of Iraq will eliminate 
rather than abet the terrorist enemy, end Iraq’s use 
as a staging base for terrorist attacks against free 
peoples, serve as a beacon of hope to oppressed peo-
ples throughout the world, and severely damage the 
terrorist enemy’s ability to pursue its invidious strat-
egy to subjugate the broader Middle East and else-
where under a barbarous yoke of totalitarianism; 
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