Resolution

11/8/2006

The Iraqi Resolution that follows is offered as a "straw man", a framework that we hope will spark a global discussion, which seeks to include everyone-particularly the Iraqi people, in reaching for solutions to the conflicts in Iraq. It includes random links to over 200 Iraqi and Kurdish blogs (sourced, like our blog roll, from Iraq Blog Count). Please click through and give them a visit.

Its premise is simple and applies the principles of participatory democracy at its very roots. It acknowledges that solutions must include the citizens of Iraq and calls for a referrendum vote from the Iraqi people, as to whether International military support continues to be needed to determine the destiny of their country. It requests that we let the people's voice be heard .........Should coalition forces continue peacekeeping efforts or be withdrawn?

Let the people speak and then respect and support their wishes.

Whereas, the land of Iraq has been occupied by active international defenses, civil and military units from around the world and from within Iraq. The United States has a led a coalition of international armed forces in civil and physical manuevers in Iraq resulting in a freed Iraqi people being of a practicing democratic body, and of a sovereign nation capable of making manifest determinations.

Whereas, the United States of America volunteer Armed Forces performs duties as determined by the U.S. government and the voting majority, as has been so in Iraq. This engagment has required lives, resources and commitments from the Iraqi people and governing body for the benefit of Iraq and international relations.

Notwithstanding, this engagement has required lives, resources and commitments made by American military families and public at large for the benefit of the United States and foreign policy.

Whereas, the depth and duration of the global Iraqi engagment is such to require inquiry to ascertain current positions and attitudes of the Iraqi people to determine the best cause and course for immediate and future international engagements in free Iraq.

Therefore it is requested that the Iraqi people, with support from its international community, take it upon their government to assess and acknowledge the needs and desires of its citizens as they relate to the presence of foreign forces, demonstrated through a free voting majority.

It is furthermore requested that the representative body of Iraq pursue an in depth analysis of the nature of defenses, resources and personnel the international community provides compared to that which the Iraqi people determine acceptable and necessary.

So be it resolved, the people of Iraq shall propose terms for an international armed forces engagement and withdrawal, subject to international and national safety standards or precautions and executed with multi-lateral consideration.

Since colonial times, America has served as a watermark for global democracy through many national and international policies and engagments in peace and war. Notwithstanding, there are and have been cause for engagments tangent to the aforementioned, though still elemental to and often resulting in freed societies, as is the case for Iraq and the World.

In the United States, and in Iraq, the people and their resources are strained due to histories beyond their control, leaving international outreach encumbered by political currents and professed shadows, diminishing the potential of the great cause of democracy in Iraq,

In all engagements, the course must incur balanced analysis, sound judgement and considerations uninhibited by reactionary policies, positions or maneuvers.

In light of all the sacrifices made or peripheral to identifying and containing global threats and on behalf of the free Iraqi people, we as members of the human race, internationally aware, citizens of the United States, propose the following resolution to our brethren and managers of the conflict within the nation, particularly as it relates to those inhabiting the soil of Iraq including American military service members.

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