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RESOLUTION TO WITHDRAW US TROOPS FROM IRAQ
Passed July, 2005 by Central Committee
(See Whereas Clauses below)

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE ARIZONA DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF ARIZONA CALLS UPON THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO:

  1. Withdraw all U.S. troops and military bases from Iraq;

  2. Cease all attempts by the U.S. government and corporations to control the economy, government and resources of Iraq;

  3. Ensure that returning veterans receive adequate compensation, health care and education, disability, and rehabilitation benefits; and

  4. Reduce the U.S. military budget and allocate that money to programs that provide for health care, education and environmental protection.

 

Whereas: the United States government, in its preemptive attack and subsequent occupation of Iraq, a country which had neither attacked nor threatened the U.S.:

  1. Violated international law, the United Nations Charter, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Accords and the Nuremberg Principles;

  2. Caused the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Iraqis and more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers and the wounding and disabling of tens of thousands of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers;

  3. Misused over $300 billion of U.S. taxpayers money which should have been used for health care, affordable housing, environmental protection, etc.

  4. The continuation of this war and the continued misallocation of funds will cause grave harm to the people of the United States.

    BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that: