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U.S. Senate Demands Regular Iraq Reports
November 16, 2005
U.S. troops in Iraq (file photo) (CTK)
The senate, which is controlled by President George W. Bush's Republican Party, voted 79 to 19 to demand the reports. But senators rejected a motion put forward by the Democrats to demand that the president submit a plan and a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
Speaking in Japan this morning, Bush told reporters he saw the Senate action as positive because senators rejected a withdrawal timetable.
Bush has argued that setting a timetable for pulling out the nearly 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq would encourage insurgents.
(AP/Reuters/AFP)