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pst.000063511185	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight.	The November 26 Declaration of Principles : implications for U.N. resolutions on Iraq and for Congressional oversight : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, February 8, 2008 4.F 76/1:110-152	2008		.txt	text/plain	9557	466	55	under any circumstances that a major United States defense commitment, internal and external to Iraq, is a matter for resolution reason, the best strategy for the United States is to stay out of Iraq's internal conflict until the conflict is resolved and a new, legitimate Iraqi leadership emerges Even more important, an agreement approved by Congress has the force of a commitment supported by the American people. report said that a "security commitment," as understood by the Executive, is an "obligation, binding under international law, of the United States to act in common defense in the event of an armed attack on that country." The report proceeded to list All these security commitments were approved either by the Senate as treaties or by both houses of the Congress as congressional-executive agreements. a security threat to Iraq or an exemption from Iraqi laws for U.S. forces and personnel might be done by means of an executive agreement without Congressional	./cache/pst.000063511185.pdf	./txt/pst.000063511185.txt