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Byline: Susan Milligan
Sep. 30--WASHINGTON--Iraq is prepared to give weapons inspectors unfettered access, three Democratic congressmen said yesterday after meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. But the news was greeted with deep skepticism by other Washington lawmakers, who noted Iraq's rejection Saturday of a UN 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," Representative James McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said on ABC's "This Week." "And until they don't do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff where you bring in helicopters and armed people and storm buildings."
Republicans dismissed the reports. Saddam Hussein is "not going to allow them…