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Democrats Split on Weapons Evidence.

By David Jackson, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 13--WASHINGTON - Citizens are angry. Some accuse the government of using false evidence to wage war. Legislators are conducting inquiries that could conceivably bring down the government.

No, not in the United States. This is Great Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair is on the hook for the failure, to date, to find weapons of mass destruction in newly liberated Iraq.

But the missing weapons issue is more of a mixed political bag in the former colonies.

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