DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now, back to the story we were talking about with the president's State of the Union speech as he named three countries that were "the axis of evil," and that included Iraq. Let's get reaction from Iraq to President Bush's comments. We turn to CNN's Jane Arraf in Baghdad. Jane, hello.</s>JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. One of Iraq's senior leaders tonight says the United States has no evidence that it still has weapons of mass destruction. Now, that's Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, and he was speaking to a domestic audience, which means that he was quite hard-line. He said, they want to send the spies back, because Bush says we still have weapons. Now those spies he is referring to are U.N. weapon inspectors, and in fact his comments go quite a bit further than signs that the Iraqi government has been indicating lately to the U.N., making clear that they might be prepared to reopen talks and eventually let those weapons inspectors back in. Now, that seemed to be because there's a real concern here that there might be a very serious U.S. attack. Of course, the person who really -- whose reaction really counts here is President Saddam Hussein, and we haven't heard any response at all from him, nor is any expected at this point. The Iraqi leadership has made a point in the last few months of keeping quite a low profile, though sending out feelers to U.N., to its neighbors, to Iran to try to deflect and shore up support against any U.S. attack. So it seems as if the Iraqi president at least isn't going to respond to these comments from President Bush -- Daryn.</s>KAGAN: Jane Arraf in Baghdad. Thank you very much.
Iraqis Respond to Bush's State of the Union Address