I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1183 
To require the President to transmit to Congress a report on contingency 
plans regarding possible developments in Iraq. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 
Mr. UDALL of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the President to transmit to Congress a report 
on contingency plans regarding possible developments in 
Iraq. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Iraq Contingency Planning Act’’. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to require 
the President to promptly inform Congress regarding what 
contingency plans are or will be in place to respond to 
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three scenarios regarding future developments in Iraq as 
identified by the most recent National Intelligence Esti-
mate on Iraq. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The United States initiated combat oper-
ations against the Saddam Hussein regime on 
March 19, 2003, and concluded those operations in 
April 2004 with the defeat of the Iraqi military and 
the collapse of the Hussein regime. 
(2) The Bush Administration had been warned 
that while military action against the Hussein re-
gime would likely succeed, rebuilding Iraq and win-
ning the peace would be more difficult. In particular, 
intelligence reports from the Defense Intelligence 
Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, the Department 
of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and 
the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Intel-
ligence Council warned that United States troops 
could face significant postwar resistance. An Army 
War College report from February 2003 warned that 
without an ‘‘overwhelming’’ effort to prepare for the 
United States occupation of Iraq, ‘‘The United 
States may find itself in a radically different world 
over the next few years, a world in which the threat 
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of Saddam Hussein seems like a pale shadow of new 
problems of America’s own making.’’. 
(3) Despite these warnings, the Bush Adminis-
tration invaded Iraq without a comprehensive plan 
in place to secure and rebuild the country. 
(4) United States Armed Forces personnel have 
remained in Iraq since the beginning of combat op-
erations, and in over nearly four years of war, hun-
dreds of thousands of members of the Armed Forces 
have served with honor and distinction in Iraq, over 
3,100 members of the Armed Forces have died, and 
over 22,500 members of the Armed Forces have 
been wounded. 
(5) On January 10, 2007, after years of grow-
ing sectarian violence in Iraq, President George W. 
Bush addressed the American people to announce a 
plan entitled ‘‘The New Way Forward in Iraq’’, con-
sisting of the additional deployments of at least 
21,500 United States troops in Iraq. 
(6) On January 16, 2007, the Secretary of De-
fense said that ‘‘we expect in certain areas to be able 
to see whether the Iraqi government is carrying out 
the commitments that it has made and that are so 
critical to the success of this strategy . . . within two 
or three months.’’. 
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