17 Nov. Washington Times - Bush Hails Senate Defeat of Bill on Iraq Timetable.

President Bush said yesterday that it was "a positive step" for the Senate to defeat a Democrat-led effort to establish a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq...

...Another military analyst at Brookings, Ivo H. Daalder, said that despite the Democratic amendment's defeat, the Republican Senate adopted significant parts of it and did so to send signals to the White House that it wants clearer answers to the questions of "what are we doing there, how are we doing, and when are we done.