Some Democrats Denied Entry Into Iraq [View All]

But U.S. authorities denied Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd and three other Democrats critical of administration policy permission to enter Iraq, citing logistical problems.

Among a stream of senior administration officials who appeared in public last week to argue that things in Iraq were going reasonably well, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded there were problems as well as successes.

"I know what is going on there and it is a mixed picture," Rumsfeld said in a lecture at the Ronald Reagan presidential library west of Los Angeles.

"It isn't a simple clear picture. The schools are open, the hospitals are functioning, there's a new Central Bank that's converted a new currency -- so there's an impressive record of accomplishment, but it's balanced against the fact that people are being killed," he said.

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