Bush Dismissed Advice to Give Weapons Inspectors Time, Gephardt Says.

By Susan Milligan, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 14--NEW YORK -- Democratic presidential candidate Richard A. Gephardt, who supported the war in Iraq, said yesterday he had personally urged President Bush to give international inspectors enough time to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But Bush, Gephardt said, ignored his pleas.

"I didn't think it would be possible to get the support of all our major allies" unless inspectors were given adequate opportunity to look for banned weapons," Gephardt, a Missouri repr