Rep. Waters Calls on The President to Honor Iraq's Sovereignty and Redeploy Our Troops from Iraq

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Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35), chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, today renewed her call on President Bush to redeploy American troops and military contractors from Iraq in a letter to the President and in a newly introduced resolution, H. Res. 1326.

The resolution, H. Res. 1326, Calling on the President to Respect and Honor Iraqi's Sovereignty, and the letter, delivered today, were coauthored by Reps. Waters, Woolsey and Lee. The introduced resolution, H. Res. 1326, calls for the President to respect Iraq's sovereignty and redeploy our military if asked to do so by the Government of Iraq - as President Bush previously pledged to do - and to present a plan to Congress for how this will be carried out.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed support for this position this week, calling for a timetable for redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq to be included in the security agreement being pushed by the Bush Administration. Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said "We will not accept a memorandum of understanding without having timeline horizons for the cessation of combat operations as well as the departure of all the combat brigades."

Rep. Waters said, "I am pleased to see that the Government of Iraq has risen in support of our position that a timetable is needed for the redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq. I call on President Bush to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home. Otherwise, as many of us have feared, President Bush and his supporters' vision of an ‘enduring relationship' with Iraq amounts only to an endless and unlimited military occupation in the Middle East."

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