UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES

WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ ACT

Effective 120 days after this bill becomes law:

1. All members of the United States Armed Forces must be withdrawn from
Iraq, except the Marine Corps guards serving on the sovereign territory of the
United States at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and performing solely typical
embassy guard duties. No member of the United States armed forces may
remain within the borders of Iraq on or after the 121st day after this bill becomes
law.
2. No funds authorized or appropriated at any time by any other Act of
Congress or controlled by the United States or any of its officers, employees, or
agents (whether or not the use of such controlled funds has been authorized or
appropriated by an Act of Congress) may be used to conduct or support military
or paramilitary operations (whether conducted by members of the United States
Armed Forces or by military personnel or civilians of any nation) within or over
the territory of Iraq (which territory of Iraq includes the waters within 3 miles of
the Iraqi coast) except for travel by the Marine Corps embassy guards allowed by
Section 1.
3. On the 122nd day after this bill becomes law and on the first business day
of each month thereafter (for a period of one year following the 122nd day after
this bill becomes law), each of the following officials shall deliver to the Congress
a separate written certificate signed by the official under penalty of perjury
certifying that since the 121st day after this bill becomes law the United States
has complied with the sections of this law indicated immediately after each
official’s position:
a. the President - Sections 1 and 2
b. the Vice President - Sections 1 and 2
c. the Secretary of Defense - Sections 1 and 2
d. the Secretary of the Treasury - Section 2
4. It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and knowingly to violate, or to
conspire to violate, any provision of this law or to deliver a written certificate to
the Congress as required by Section 3 which certificate is false. The provisions of
this Section 4 shall not apply to any person who, at the time of the violation, was
a uniformed member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces below
general officer or flag rank (below the rank of Brigadier General or below the rank
of Rear Admiral). Any violation of any provision of this law, and conspiracies to
commit such a violation, occurring outside the United States, shall be prosecuted
only in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which shall
have exclusive original jurisdiction over any such prosecution. Each act
constituting a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of $1,000,000
and by imprisonment for five years (without the possibility of parole, probation, or
reduction in fine or sentence for any reason other than a written certificate from
the prosecuting attorney representing the United States to the effect that the
convicted person has provided information necessary to a conviction actually
obtained of some person of higher rank for a violation of any provision of this
law). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event any fine is not paid
as ordered by the court, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deduct the unpaid
amount of the fine from any funds otherwise payable for any reason by the
United States to any person convicted of a violation of any provision of this law.
Such deductions shall continue until the fine has been paid in full.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any prosecution of a violation of any
provision of this law must commence within fifteen (15) years after the violation
occurred.
5. The Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces
against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), approved by the House of Representatives on
October 10, 2002 and by the Senate on October 11, 2002, is hereby repealed.

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Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel (1969-81) released both the “United States Armed
Forces Withdrawal From Iraq Act” and “A Strategic Plan to Force the President to
Withdraw American Troops from Iraq” at a press conference on May 14, 2007, at the
National Press Club. More information is available at www.Gravel2008.us or at Mike
Gravel for President, PO Box 948, Arlington, VA 22216––703-652-4698.

Amended June 5, 2007