To express the sense of the Senate on the use by the Department of Defense of funds in the Act for operations in Iraq in a manner consistent with the United States-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement.

1. Inserts new text at the appropriate place in title III

   Inserts

   Inserted: sense of senate on use of funds for operations in iraq

   Inserted: Sec. 315. It is the sense of the Senate that funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense by this title for operations in Iraq should be utilized for those operations in a manner consistent with the United States-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, including specifically that--

   Inserted: (1) the United States combat mission in Iraq will end by August 31, 2010;

   Inserted: (2) any transitional force of the United States remaining in Iraq after August 31, 2010, will have a mission consisting of--

   Inserted: (A) training, equipping, and advising Iraqi Security Forces as long as they remain non-sectarian;

   Inserted: (B) conducting targeted counter-terrorism missions; and

   Inserted: (C) protecting the ongoing civilian and military efforts of the United States within Iraq; and (3) through continuing redeployments of the transitional force of the United States remaining in Iraq after August 31, 2010, all United States troops present in Iraq under the United States-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement will be redeployed from Iraq by December 31, 2011.

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   At the appropriate place in title III, insert the following:

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