Setback for Bush as senators question Iraq war: "In a damaging setback for the Bush re-election campaign, leading Republicans in the US Senate are now openly saying that they might not have voted to give President George Bush authority to use force against Iraq if they had known how wrong intelligence was on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
'I don't know if the votes would have been there,' Mr Pat Roberts, Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday when asked about the 77-23 vote in the Senate on October 11th 2002.
The committee's report on Friday, which said most Bush administration pre-war claims about Iraq's unconventional weapons were unfounded, has propelled the war in Iraq to the forefront as the central driving issue in the presidential election campaign.""
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