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Article: Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
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- October 3, 2002
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Text of a resolution agreed upon yesterday by President Bush and
House leaders:
Whereas in 1990 in response to Iraq's war of aggression against
and illegal occupation of Kuwait, the United States forged a
coalition of nations to liberate Kuwait and its people in order to
defend the national security of the United States and enforce United
Nations Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq;
Whereas after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, Iraq entered into
a United Nations sponsored cease-fire agreement pursuant to which
Iraq unequivocally agreed, among other things, to eliminate its
nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs and the means to
deliver and develop them, and to end its ...