US Dismisses Iraqi Talks of UN Inspections

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US Dismisses Iraqi Talks of UN Inspections

The Bush administration Monday dismissed Iraqi suggestions that Baghdad may consider allowing UN weapons inspectors to return and brushed aside talk of differences among US officials on Iraq policy.

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The Bush administration Monday dismissed Iraqi suggestions that Baghdad may consider allowing UN weapons inspectors to return and brushed aside talk of differences among US officials on Iraq policy.

"Iraq changes positions on whether it will let the inspectors in more often than Saddam Hussein changes bunkers," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters as US President George W. Bush traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a Labor Day appearance.

"Every day you get a different story out of Iraq. They don't have a history of reliability," Fleischer said.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said earlier on Monday he would discuss weapons inspections and the relationship between Iraq and the United States with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan inJohannesburg Tuesday.

Fleischer also denied there was any split between Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell on the subject of a possible US military attack on Iraq.

"This is much ado about no difference," he noted.

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