IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 35
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should develop and 
implement a plan to begin the immediate withdrawal of United States 
Armed Forces from Iraq. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2005
Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Ms. LEE, Mr. OWENS, Mr. STARK, Mr. HINCHEY, 
Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. FARR, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. KUCINICH, Ms. KIL-
PATRICK of Michigan, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. EVANS, 
Mr. SERRANO, Ms. WATERS, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. WATSON, 
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, and Ms. MOORE of 
Wisconsin) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should 
develop and implement a plan to begin the immediate 
withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq.
Whereas the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against 
Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107–243) was 
passed by Congress on October 11, 2002, and signed into 
law by the President on October 16, 2002; 
Whereas Public Law 107–243 specifically cited Iraq’s posses-
sion of weapons of mass destruction and its harboring of 
members of the al Qaeda terrorist organization as the
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foundation for the use of United States military force 
against Iraq; 
Whereas the Iraq Survey Group, led by American weapons in-
spector David Kay, was enlisted by the President to 
search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; 
Whereas on October 2, 2003, David Kay wrote, in a state-
ment prepared for the House Permanent Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence, the House Committee on Appro-
priations (Subcommittee on Defense), and the Senate Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence that the Iraq Survey 
Group found no evidence that Iraq had stockpiled uncon-
ventional weapons before the United States-led invasion 
of Iraq in March 2003; 
Whereas on October 6, 2004, Charles Duelfer, whom the 
President chose to complete the work of the Iraq Survey 
Group, stated that the 1991 Persian Gulf War and sub-
sequent United Nations inspections destroyed Iraq’s illicit 
weapons capability and that the Iraq Survey Group found 
no evidence of concerted efforts by Iraq to restart an il-
licit weapons program; 
Whereas on January 12, 2005, the President officially de-
clared an end to the search for weapons of mass destruc-
tion in Iraq; 
Whereas more than 1,350 members of the United States 
Armed Forces have been killed as part of the ongoing 
combat operations in Iraq; 
Whereas the Department of Defense has estimated that at 
least 10,300 members of the Armed Forces have been 
wounded as part of the ongoing combat operations in 
Iraq;
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Whereas various estimates place the number of unarmed, in-
nocent Iraqi civilians killed as part of the ongoing combat 
operations in Iraq between 15,000 to 17,000 individuals, 
and possibly much higher; 
Whereas more than $230,000,000,000 has been appropriated 
by Congress to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
nearly $160,000,000,000 of which has been allocated for 
military operations and reconstruction efforts in Iraq; 
Whereas in 2005 the President is expected to request Con-
gress to appropriate as much as $80,000,000,000 in ad-
ditional funds for military operations and reconstruction 
efforts in Iraq and elsewhere; 
Whereas the President’s former Chief Economic Adviser, 
Lawrence Lindsey, was publicly criticized by high-ranking 
members of the Administration for suggesting that the 
war in Iraq might cost as much as $100,000,000,000 to 
$200,000,000,000; 
Whereas the legitimacy of the January 30, 2005, elections in 
Iraq has been severely undermined by daily attacks by 
Iraqi insurgents, by the decision to hold such an election 
before the country is safe enough to ensure widespread 
participation, and by the fact that an occupying military 
force is present within the country; 
Whereas dozens of Iraqi election workers have been killed, 
and hundreds more have quit their posts out of fear of 
being killed; 
Whereas Iraqi insurgent forces remain capable of killing 
United States troops and Iraqi police and soldiers 
throughout Iraq almost daily; 
Whereas the very presence of 150,000 Americans in Iraq has 
become a rallying point for dissatisfied people in the Arab
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world, and has both intensified the rage of the extremist 
Muslim terrorists and also ignited civil hostilities in Iraq 
that have made United States troops and Iraqi civilians 
substantially less safe; 
Whereas the removal of the United States military from Iraq 
will help diminish one of the major causes of Iraq’s grow-
ing insurgency; 
Whereas the best way to truly support members of the 
United States Armed Forces stationed in Iraq is to re-
move them from harm’s way; and 
Whereas the time has come to begin a withdrawal of United 
States Armed Forces from Iraq before the United States 
becomes further embroiled in an unnecessary and dan-
gerous international conflict: Now, therefore be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the 
President should—
(1) develop and implement a plan to begin the 
immediate withdrawal of United States Armed 
Forces from Iraq; 
(2) develop and implement a plan for recon-
structing Iraq’s civil and economic infrastructure; 
(3) convene an emergency meeting of Iraq’s 
leadership, Iraq’s neighbors, the United Nations, 
and the Arab League to create an international 
peacekeeping force in Iraq and to replace United 
States Armed Forces in Iraq with Iraqi police and
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Iraqi National Guard forces to ensure Iraq’s secu-
rity; and 
(4) take all steps necessary to provide the Iraqi 
people with the opportunity to completely control 
their internal affairs.
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