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and resulted in injuries to more than 28,000 others, 
many suffering the most horrific of wounds which will 
scar them for life; 
Whereas to date, American taxpayers have spent more than 
$495 billion to invade and occupy a country that had not 
attacked us and posed no threat of harm to our vital in-
terests; 
Whereas the average monthly operating costs for United 
States operations in Iraq have grown from $4.8 billion in 
fiscal year 2004 to $10.3 billion in fiscal year 2007, a 
doubling in only four years; 
Whereas a recent estimate from Nobel Laureate and former 
chief economist at the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, indi-
cates that the cost to the United States by the end of the 
Iraq war could total more than $3 trillion; 
Whereas the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2009 
calls for $23 billion in cuts to domestic programs, elimi-
nating 50 education programs, 20 programs to improve 
healthcare access, and cutting discretionary grants to 
States and local governments by $15.1 billion; 
Whereas President George W. Bush has requested more than 
$170 billion in additional funding for the wars in Iraq 
and Afghanistan; 
Whereas in addition to the enormous cost in blood and treas-
ure, the indirect costs of the Iraq war have harmed 
America’s international standing and engendered a gen-
eration of future enemies incensed by the endless occupa-
tion of their country by a foreign power; 
Whereas the collateral consequences of the decision to wage 
war and occupy Iraq extend to the home front due to the 
inability of the United States to finance investments 
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needed to rebuild its infrastructure, make housing more 
affordable, improve educational opportunities, and secure 
the homeland; 
Whereas five years after the start of the Iraq war the great 
majority of Americans now regard the decision to go to 
war in Iraq as a mistake and 68 percent of Americans 
believe that ending the war and occupation in Iraq is an 
important step the United States Government can take 
to respond to the current economic recession and to ad-
dress pressing human and social needs in the United 
States and to maintain American competitiveness in the 
global economy; 
Whereas there were 36.5 million Americans living in poverty 
in 2006; 
Whereas at least two million more Americans have fallen into 
poverty in the five years since the invasion of Iraq; 
Whereas there were more than 47 million Americans without 
health insurance in 2006; 
Whereas it is projected that more than two million American 
families will lose their homes to foreclosure, primarily in 
fiscal years 2008 and 2009; 
Whereas the $495 billion spent to cover the costs of the war 
in Iraq could have provided health care to 140 million 
persons or funded eight million elementary school teach-
ers or provided scholarships to 80 million college stu-
dents; 
Whereas the enormous sums spent fighting a war more costly 
than World War II could have been used instead to build 
50,000 new elementary schools or 3.5 million affordable 
housing units or hire 10 million new first responders or 
7 million persons to inspect the cargo entering United 
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States ports or to retrofit more than 500 million homes 
to use renewable electricity; 
Whereas the money spent on the war and occupation in Iraq 
constitutes a continuing danger to the United States be-
cause it is money that is desperately needed but not 
available to assist State and local governments in coping 
with the decline in revenues resulting from falling prop-
erty values and the economic downturn; and 
Whereas State and local revenues are falling at the same 
time that the demand is increasing for programs serving 
children, the elderly, the poor, the homeless, and those 
facing the loss of their homes and rather than increasing 
funding for these programs to respond to demonstrated 
need, State and local governments will be forced to cut 
back or eliminate programs that assist society’s most vul-
nerable persons at the most vulnerable time in their lives, 
which would constitute perhaps the greatest unintended 
consequence of the Iraq war: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the current economic slowdown in the 
United States is directly related to the enormous 
costs of the ongoing occupation of Iraq, which have 
inflicted incalculable damage to the economic well- 
being of the United States and its standing abroad, 
consigning the United States to what can only be 
called the Iraq recession; and 
(2) Congress should— 
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(A) move to redeploy United States Armed 
Forces and contractor security forces from Iraq 
as quickly and as safely as practical; and 
(B) refocus its efforts on addressing vital 
domestic priorities so as to alleviate the impact 
of the slowing economy and protect the eco-
nomic security of all Americans. 
Æ 
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