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<br />? <br /> <br /> <br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2007 - 64 <br />By: Mayor O'Grady <br />A RESOL UTION URGING AN END TO THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ. <br />WHEREAS, The United States has been engaged in a war in Iraq for more than foia <br />years; and <br />WHEREAS, U.S. involvement in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of over 3,400 U.S. <br />soldiers, including 145 soldiers from Ohio, and the wounding and disabling of more than 24,314 <br />U.S. military personnel to date; and <br />WHEREAS, The war will further extend National Guard tours in Iraq, that the costs to <br />the states of the call-up of National Guard members for deployment in Iraq have been significant, <br />as reckoned in lost lives, combat injuries and psychic trauma, disruption of family life, financial <br />hardship for individuals, families and businesses, interruption of careers and damage to the fabric <br />of civic life in our communities, including natural disaster recovery; and <br />WHEREAS, The American troops have valiantly upheld their duty in Iraq under dire <br />circumstances; and <br />WHEREAS, More than $426 billion has been appropriated by Congress to fund military <br />operations and reconstruction in Iraq to date, money that could fund desperately needed <br />education, health care, housing, nutrition and other social services in our communities in the <br />United States; and <br />WHEREAS, Cuyahoga County's share in that is $400 million toward costs associat:ed <br />with the war in Iraq. And further, the cost to Ohioans is more than $15 billion, and <br />WHEREAS, Previous budgets that have prioritized Iraq have led to cuts in critical block <br />grants for states and have increased the federal debt, which compounded by interest payments, <br />will likely lead to even larger cuts in funding for critical needs in cities and states; and <br />WHEREAS, Legal experts on all sides have determined that Congress has not only broad <br />authority, but a long tradition of limiting escalation or forcing redeployment of troops through <br />the Constitutionally-designated power of the purse. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL VED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />NORTH OLMSTED, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, AND STATE OF OHIO: <br />