President Bush said he told congressional leaders at a White House breakfast September 18 that his administration would have language for a Capitol Hill resolution on Iraq in the next couple of days.

Bush said he thanked the leadership for its pledge to pass a resolution before recessing and engaging in re-election campaigning. He called an Iraq resolution "an important signal" of U.S. unity against the threat of terrorism.

In an Oval Office media availability after the breakfast, Bush answered a question concerning the difficulty of pursuing a U.N. Security Council resolution after Iraq's offer to readmit U.N. inspectors, saying "reasonable people understand this is just a ploy �c a way to say to the world, 'I'm a wonderful, peaceful fellow' when, in fact, he not only kills his own people, he's terrorized his neighborhood and he's developing weapons of mass destruction. We must deal with him."