Sorry, Walter, you are wrong. Those "Dovish" democrats certainly do support
occupation of Iraq. Read the Woolsey resolution. Pay attention to the
signers and especially to number 3 at the end. They may support bringing US
troops home but they are not against a US-controlled occupation under the
UN/Arab League banner. That is not antiwar--sounds pretty much what Bush is
trying to do without any success.
Comradely,
Bonnie
(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
Iraqi National Guard forces to ensure Iraq's security; and
Rep. Woolsey Introduces Congressional Resolution;
Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Calls for U.S. Soldiers
to Come Home.
H.Con.Res. 35 introduced to Congress January 26, 2005.
Thank you Lynn Woolsey, bring our troops home.
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. KILPATRICK 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 referred 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 possession
of weapons of mass destruction and its harboring of members of
the al Qaeda terrorist organization as the foundation for the
use of United States military force against Iraq;
Whereas the Iraq Survey Group, led by American weapons
inspector 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 statement
prepared for the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, the House Committee on Appropriations
(Subcommittee on Defense), and the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence that the Iraq Survey Group found no evidence
that Iraq had stockpiled unconventional 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 subsequent 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 illicit weapons program;
Whereas on January 12, 2005, the President officially declared
an end to the search for weapons of mass destruction 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;
Whereas various estimates place the number of unarmed, innocent
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 Congress
to appropriate as much as $80,000,000,000 in additional 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 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
insurgency;
Whereas the best way to truly support members of the
United States Armed Forces stationed in Iraq is to remove
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 dangerous 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 reconstructing 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
Iraqi National Guard forces to ensure Iraq's security; and
(4) take all steps necessary to provide the Iraqi people
with the opportunity to completely control their internal affairs.
END
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