Old tourist train that runs through the steps carrying sugarcane old from Lahaina to Ka'anapali. 9-11 period after sightseeing in the islands was negatively affected by the recession of 2001, the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11 of that year in the United States and the war against Iraq in 2003. By April 2003, the Hawaiian tourist industry dropped third, with just one month of the war in Iraq started. That year, the Hawaii legislature debated a nonbinding resolution condemning the actions of the Department of Homeland Security United States in 2001 and 2002, (which included creating new federal powers to combat terrorism) and called on state officials to avoid any action that threatened the civil rights of every single citizen of Hawaii. Hawaii would be the first state to unveil his stand against the actions of the Department of Homeland Security United States.