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It was members of the more senior 'team of experts' that looked at those moonshine things that expressed doubts. They were sent there by our government not by the Demos.

You must agree that for these government employee, on government payroll, to express doubts after the man at the top of the government announced that those thingies were 'germ labs' is not something one would do ligthly.

I imagine a discussion like this:

Analyst 1: It was a weapons lab. The hydrogen excuse doesn't work, because the metals in the vehicle show no sign of being exposed to hydrogen for any period of time.
Analyst 2: They show no sign of being exposed to biological agents either. Besides, one of the two we have in hand was obviously just constructed, and may not even have been finished. It is possible that these were constructed for the processing of hydrogen for weather balloons, but not yet used.
Analyst 1: That is possible, but it is so unlikely as to defy credulity. The Iraqis did not say they were building these vehicles to process hydrogen, they said that the vehicles they had were used to produce hydrogen for weather balloons. So by their own words, they had been using such vehicles. Where are the vehicles they were using for the purpose of gassing up weather balloons? Why have we not found any of these vehicles showing permeation of the vessels with hydrogen?
Analyst 2: I don't know, but I object to jumping to a conclusion because we have not found counter evidence. I concede we have found no evidence to support the claim they were used to produce hydrogen. But we have found no evidence to support the claim they were used to produce bioweapons.
Analyst 1: The difference is, they have an interest in hiding the vehicles from inspection if they were used for weaponry. No such interest exists if they were used for hydrogen processing. They clearly were not open to letting us inspect the vehicles (and accounting for all of them) prior to the war. And we still have not found any that were used for hydrogen processing. If they were telling the truth, they would be there for us to find. The only explanation that makes sense is that they had them, they were used for evil purposes, and then they either hid them or destroyed them.
Analyst 2: But that isn't the only possibility. As bizarre as it sounds, they may have had them for benign purposes and on principle hid them from us.

My mindset is along that of my fictional analyst 1.

You must agree that for these government employee, on government payroll, to express doubts after the man at the top of the government announced that those thingies were 'germ labs' is not something one would do ligthly.

Here is what I will agree. The government is full of people. And people are different. Some are sincere. Some are apolitical. And some are partisan. Fiercely.

Some partisans in government are Republicans.

Some are not.

What you seem to want everyone to do is to believe that the analysts who said "there are WMDs, no doubt, and these vehicles are mobile biolabs, no doubt" were being partisan or somehow lying, but the analysts who said "no, they are not" are just sincere professionals.

The fact that these analysts did not come forward before hand tells me one of three things. 1) They did not have enough confidence in their opinions to know they would be vindicated. 2) They didn't have the moral integrity to resign over what they perceived to be a sham, and they still don't have the integrity to do so, and they don't have the courage to even reveal their name so that they can be vetted by the media. 3) They are playing partisan politics.