Senators Disagree on Iraq WMD Evidence

Senators Disagree on Iraq WMD Evidence

Fri Jul 4

AP

Photo: Jay Rockefeller

WASHINGTON - Senators just returned from Iraq differed on whether U.S. officials there had turned up solid evidence of weapons of mass destruction programs.

Two Republicans said there was definitive evidence and details probably would be made public soon. But Democrats weren't so sure, saying the Republicans were trying to shift the focus from proving that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons to proving he was developing them.

"That was not the basis on which the nation went to war," Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Thursday.

The lingering difference over Iraq's weapons programs was the only public partisan dispute among the nine-member delegation led by Sen. John Warner , R-Va., the Armed Services Committee chairman. The delegation included members of his panel and the Intelligence Committee leaders. The senators spent three days in Iraq.

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