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Utah's Republican senators, Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, voted against the timeline. "I don't think deadlines should be set," Hatch said. "Even though this isn't a mandatory deadline, it's still setting a deadline. I think it undermines the troops. I don't think there's any question about it." The group Council for a Livable World noted that, during the Clinton administration, Hatch and Bennett voted to impose deadlines for withdrawal from both Haiti and Somalia or to withhold funding. Bennett did not support either engagement and voted to end the action as early as possible, said his spokeswoman Emily Christensen, but it is wrong to compare Iraq to either of those missions. "The circumstances surrounding the conflicts in Somalia and Haiti are fundamentally different from the war in Iraq," she said. "To compare Iraq to the primarily peacekeeping mission and limited military role in Somalia and Haiti shows a complete lack of understanding on the part of these organizations." In a 1993 speech, Hatch said that President Clinton changed the mission in Somalia from a peacekeeping role to one of nation-building, and if that was to continue, Hatch said he needed to ask Congress for more forces. If not, the troops would be put at risk in a hopeless cause, he said.