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Reaction in Iraq

Aired February 06, 2004 - 13:41   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: As the White House insists, the intelligence commission will be objective. There's reaction coming out of Iraq also. Brent Sadler, live from Baghdad.
Brent, what do you know?

BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, you can bet that response to what President Bush has just been saying will be positive here. The whole issue of the unfulfilled weapons of mass destruction found in terms of what's been located on the ground here still remains a very, very sore point among most Iraqis, particularly in the Iraqi Governing Council.

But even though we hear what the president has just had to say and what was said the previous day by the Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, that the search would go on, work would go on here in Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, Most Iraqis, of course, are preoccupied with their own security situation and their own future. And it's at this particular time, as the United States makes much of what's happening with the intelligence community and what's going on with the search for WMD, that Iraqis want to see progress, more importantly for them, on the issue of what the future is, not so much the past -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Brent Sadler, live from Baghdad.

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Aired February 6, 2004 - 13:41   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: As the White House insists, the intelligence commission will be objective. There's reaction coming out of Iraq also. Brent Sadler, live from Baghdad.
Brent, what do you know?

BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, you can bet that response to what President Bush has just been saying will be positive here. The whole issue of the unfulfilled weapons of mass destruction found in terms of what's been located on the ground here still remains a very, very sore point among most Iraqis, particularly in the Iraqi Governing Council.

But even though we hear what the president has just had to say and what was said the previous day by the Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, that the search would go on, work would go on here in Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, Most Iraqis, of course, are preoccupied with their own security situation and their own future. And it's at this particular time, as the United States makes much of what's happening with the intelligence community and what's going on with the search for WMD, that Iraqis want to see progress, more importantly for them, on the issue of what the future is, not so much the past -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Brent Sadler, live from Baghdad.

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