A joint resolution declaring the policy of the Congress that military force be used against Iraq only as a last resort and then only in a manner consistent with the Constitution of the United States.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Expresses U.S. policy: (1) to maintain a strong military establishment to protect this nation from military attack; (2) to rely first on the moral force of a united world embodied in the United Nations (UN), using its military might to assure compliance with noncombatant UN sanctions, and resorting to war only as a last resort; (3) to take all corrective action necessary to redress, rectify, or prevent: occupation and seizure of another nation by military aggression; an aggressor nation profiting from its aggression; hostage taking; the violation of foreign embassies; the manufacture or possession of weapons of mass destruction prohibited by treaty, by the norms of decency, or by UN declaration; the assumption of authoritarian governmental powers; and any other actions threatening the stability and peace of a neighboring state or region; and (4) that its first response to such violations shall be the isolation of the offending nation by the unilateral imposition of sanctions and by the promotion of similar sanctions by the UN. Approves and reconfirms the conditions imposed by the UN for the lifting of the embargo against Iraq (i.e., the freeing of all hostages, the complete removal…