USA: President George W Bush meets top military advisors over Iraq

President Bush met his top military advisors on Wednesday (January 24) to discuss what he has been publicly calling "a new way forward" in Iraq. The meeting came just hours before a key U.S. Senate committee passed a resolution on opposing the President's plan to send more troops to Iraq. The 12-9 vote by drew less Republican support than expected, given growing doubts in Congress about the wisdom of Bush's decision to add 21,500 troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. Only one Republican, resolution co-author Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, voted for it. The measure now goes to the Senate floor for a vote expected next week. The panel's chairman Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said it may be rewritten to attract more Republicans who have soured on the Iraq war. Bush, a Republican, does not have to abide by the resolution. In his comments before meeting with military leaders, Bush thanked them for their service and requested that the Senate approve some of them as his choices for top military posts.

ITN Source | January 25, 2007

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