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Article: IRAQ IS READY TO OPEN UP, SAYS MCDERMOTT BUT GOP DOUBTS DEMOCRATS' CLAIM OF ACCESS FOR INSPECTORS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 30, 2002
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
WASHINGTON -- Iraq is prepared to give weapons inspectors unfettered access, three Democratic congressmen said yesterday after meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. But the claim was greeted with deep skepticism by other Washington lawmakers, who noted Iraq's rejection Saturday of a U.N. draft resolution demanding that Iraq open presidential palaces to prove they are not hiding weapons of mass destruction.
"They (Iraqi officials) said they would allow us to go look anywhere we wanted," Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., said on ABC's "This Week." "And until they don't do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff where you ...