Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006

The Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006 (H.R. 5875) was introduced July 25, 2006, by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-California) in the U.S. House of Representatives (109th Congress, 2d Session). "The bill employs the rationale that since President Bush declared" 'mission accomplished'" on May 1, 2003, the United States "has been engaged in an occupation, not a war, which Congress never authorized," The Raw Story reported August 1, 2006. The bill has 22 co-sponsors.

The Bill

• Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006.
• Lynn Woolsey, Video: IRAQ and SMART Security Platform for the 21st Century Platform Floor Statements: "U.S. Occupation of Iraq," July 24, 2006.

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Bush administration article for links
• Call for the U.S. to Pullout from Iraq
• civil war in Iraq
• Exit Strategy from Iraq
• Is the Iraq mission a failure?
• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• occupation of Iraq
• Oil and War in Iraq
• Saddam Hussein
• war in Iraq

• post-war Iraq
• war on terror / war on terrorism

External links

• Lynn Woolsey, "It's time to repeal the President's Iraq War Powers," MyDD, July 24, 2006; Daily Kos, July 25, 2006.
• Lynn Woolsey, "An August recess for the troops in Iraq?" MyDD, July 28, 2006.
• "House bill seeks to rescind Iraq war authorization," The Raw Story, August 1, 2006.