City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0110R

• File #: 05-0110R
• Version: 0
• Name: "Homeward Bound"- A Local Call for a National Withdrawal from Iraq
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/21/2005
• In control: IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
• Final action: 11/21/2005
• Title: "Homeward Bound"- A Local Call for a National Withdrawal from Iraq FOR the purpose of urging President Bush and the United States Congress to commence a humane, orderly, immediate, and comprehensive withdrawal of United States military personnel and bases from Iraq.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, President Dixon, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Helen L. Holton, President Young, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Kenneth Harris, James B. Kraft, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/21/2005	0	City Council	Adopted
11/21/2005	0	City Council	Introduced

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
"Homeward Bound"- A Local Call for a National Withdrawal from Iraq

FOR the purpose of urging President Bush and the United States Congress to commence a humane, orderly, immediate, and comprehensive withdrawal of United States military personnel and bases from Iraq.
Body
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On June 16, a bi-partisan group of Democrats and Republicans introduced into the Congress of the United States the Homeward Bound Act of 2005, which calls upon the President and the Congress of the United States to put in place and in motion a plan for the strategic exit from Iraq of the United States military.

In like fashion, Wisconsin's Senator Russ Feingold, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has proposed a timeframe for the completion of our nation's military mission in Iraq, suggesting December 31, 2006, as the target date for completion of the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

The United States of America went to war against Iraq based on claims, at the highest level of our government, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction which posed and immediate threat to the security of the United States of America.

To date, after extensive investigation "on the ground" in Iraq, no evidence has emerged to substantiate the claim that Iraq possessed such weapons or the capability to deploy them. The United St...