Our plan will: End U.S. Military Action in Iraq
End U.S. military action in Iraq responsibly.
Occurrences
End U.S. military action in Iraq: There is no military solution in Iraq. Our current course unacceptably holds U.S. strategic fortunes hostage to events in Iraq that are beyond our control; we must change course. Using diplomatic, political, and economic power, we can responsibly end the war and removing all of our troops from Iraq.
Evidence
The page reports that Chellie Pingree joined other 2008 congressional candidates unveiling a plan whose objectives included ending U.S. military action in Iraq and using diplomatic, humanitarian, reconstruction, accountability, veteran-support, and regional-security measures.
Obama announced a strategy to end the war through Iraqi responsibility, end the combat mission by August 31, 2010, retain a temporary 35,000-50,000 troop force, and remove all U.S. troops by the end of 2011 under the Status of Forces Agreement.
The law made FY2009 supplemental appropriations, including Department of Defense funds and support for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Clerk records Roll Call 348 on the H.R. 2346 conference report, 'Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009'; it passed 226-202, and Pingree (ME) voted Nay.
Obama stated that the rest of U.S. troops in Iraq would come home by the end of 2011 and that, after nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq would be over.
Obama authorized targeted airstrikes in Iraq to protect U.S. personnel and assist Iraqi civilians, while saying American combat troops would not return to fight in Iraq.
CJTF-OIR says it advises, assists, and enables partnered forces in Iraq and Syria; in Iraq it supports Iraqi Security Forces at the invitation of Iraq's government.
Assessments
Pingree campaigned in 2008 on a responsible plan to end U.S. military action in Iraq and took concrete House action consistent with that position, including opposing 2009 supplemental war funding. The Obama administration adopted a withdrawal timetable in 2009 and U.S. troops left Iraq by the end of 2011, which satisfies the core Iraq War withdrawal objective during Pingree's later House service. But U.S. military action in Iraq resumed in 2014 and continued in an advisory/support role, so the broader promise to end U.S. military action in Iraq was not completely or permanently fulfilled.