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Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror,
the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. HYDE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on
RESOLUTION
Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global
War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from
the terrorist adversary.
Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a
Global War on Terror, a long and demanding struggle
against an adversary that is driven by hatred of American
values and that is committed to imposing, by the use
of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;
Whereas for the past two decades, terrorists have used violence
in a futile attempt to intimidate the United States;
Whereas it is essential to the security of the American people
and to world security that the United States, together
with its allies, take the battle to the terrorists and to
those who provide them assistance;
Whereas the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorists failed to
stop free elections in Afghanistan and the first popularly elected
President in that nation’s history has taken office;
Whereas the continued determination of Afghanistan, the
United States, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
will be required to sustain a sovereign, free, and secure
Afghanistan;
Whereas the steadfast resolve of the United States and its
partners since September 11, 2001, helped persuade the
government of Libya to surrender its weapons of mass
destruction;
Whereas by early 2003 Saddam Hussein and his criminal,
Ba’athist regime in Iraq, which had supported terrorists,
constituted a threat against global peace and security
and was in violation of mandatory United Nations Security
Council Resolutions;
Whereas the mission of the United States and its Coalition
partners, having removed Saddam Hussein and his regime
from power, is to establish a sovereign, free, secure,
and united Iraq at peace with its neighbors;
Whereas the terrorists have declared Iraq to be the central
front in their war against all who oppose their ideology;
Whereas the Iraqi people, with the help of the United States
and other Coalition partners, have formed a permanent,
representative government under a newly ratified constitution;
Whereas the terrorists seek to destroy the new unity government
because it threatens the terrorists’ aspirations for
Iraq and the broader Middle East;
Whereas United States Armed Forces, in coordination with
Iraqi security forces and Coalition and other friendly
forces, have scored impressive victories in Iraq including
finding and killing the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi;
Whereas Iraqi security forces are, over time, taking over from
United States and Coalition forces a growing proportion
of independent operations and increasingly lead the fight
to secure Iraq;
Whereas the United States and Coalition servicemembers and
civilians and the members of the Iraqi security forces and
those assisting them who have made the ultimate sacrifice
or been wounded in Iraq have done so nobly, in the
cause of freedom; and
Whereas the United States and its Coalition partners will
continue to support Iraq as part of the Global War on
Terror: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) honors all those Americans who have taken
an active part in the Global War on Terror, whether
as first responders protecting the homeland, as
servicemembers overseas, as diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;
(2) honors the sacrifices of the United States
Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition, and
of the Iraqis and Afghans who fight alongside them,
especially those who have fallen or been wounded in
the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices of
their families and of others who risk their lives to
help defend freedom;
(3) declares that it is not in the national security
interest of the United States to set an arbitrary
date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United
States Armed Forces from Iraq;
(4) declares that the United States is committed
to the completion of the mission to create a
sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq;
(5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki
and the Iraqi people on the courage they have
shown by participating, in increasing millions, in the
elections of 2005 and on the formation of the first
government under Iraq’s new constitution;
(6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote
global peace and security by standing with the
United States and other Coalition partners to support
the efforts of the Iraqi and Afghan people to
live in freedom; and
(7) declares that the United States will prevail
in the Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to
protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.
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