Breaking on Fox Rick Santorum Reading Unclassified Version over 500 Chemical WMDs Found

[COUNTrecount]

On Fox right now

[NeoCaveman]

Santorum and Hoekstra on Hannity & Corpse right now!

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Gretchen. I appreciate it.

Syncro has the right picture in mind. Exactly right...

[Peach]

I'm so happy tonight! This is fantastic information.

[the Real fifi]

Santorum--on why such a late release:
"Some will claim that the release is strictly for political purposes. They may have a point, but I doubt it will have anything to do with domestic politics. If Bush wanted to use it for that, he would have done so in October 2004 and not in June 2006. This information changes the picture about our pre-war intelligence in time for the Iranian confrontation -- and I suspect that the White House wants to declassify it in order to convince European leaders that our intel actually paid off. . . .

So why keep this quiet? Perhaps CENTCOM did not want to tip the AQ-I forces to their continued existence. Another explanation may have been that some of this got captured through active intel sources that would have blown continuing operations. Obviously the Intelligence Committee felt that the need for secrecy had passed."

[fire and forget]

It is in other venues but watered WAY down. From AP:

... "With some Democrats saying the decision to go to war was a mistake, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., tried to dispel arguments by Democratic lawmakers that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

Santorum and Hoekstra released a newly declassified military intelligence report that said coalition forces have found 500 munitions in Iraq that contained degraded sarin or mustard nerve agents, produced before the 1991 Gulf War.

But a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the weapons were not considered likely to be dangerous because of their age. Also, Democrats said a lengthy 2005 report from the top U.S. weapons inspector contemplated that such munitions would be found."

[Raycpa]

Alan Colmbs making case that these are pre war weapons and not effective.

[grapeape]

The intelligence agencies sat on this for two months!!?!??!

We so need to purge the CIA of these traitors..

[Pyro7480]

Ack. He can be such a tool.

[Peach]

I do so hope that Santorum and Hoekstra know this:

Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."

In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.

"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.

In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.

"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.

In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

"I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06036/649858.stm

EVERYBODY - SEND MAIL TO SANTORUM, HOEKSTRA, HANNITY, ETC.

They are letting the left get away with saying Dulfer et al said things that they later clarified.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Wow, THIS IS HUGE!!!!!"

You meant Hugh?!!!?!

It is also Series!

[Pyro7480]

Now, Colmes is tying this to Santorum's re-election campaign, and Hokestra is now defending Santorum.

[Syncro]

Yes it is!

Lets hope it brings the Murthas and other traitors etc down, but they will try to spin it to their advantage.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

traitors lied, people died.

[grapeape]

Hey guys where is the thread that totaled the number of WMD's found to date?

I can not find it.

[do the dhue]

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/sarticle.php?id=10101&o=DIB004
above: every American should read the above book by: Richard Miniter. This is only a partial list of the deadly weapons Richard Miniter reveals in his new book, Disinformation. Miniter systematically dissects the "No-WMD Myth" (how it started, and why it continues), as well as 21 other War-on-Terror myths perpetuated by the media.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.nuclear/

above - 1.77 metric tons of uranium and 1000 and 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" CNN

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm

above - 1.77 metric tons of uranium and 1000 and 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" BBC

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/mariani/2004/mariani052804.htm
above - mortor shell sarin gas

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html
above - Roadside Bomb and Mustard gas found FOXNews

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151021&newsid=12185667&PAG=461&rfi=9
above - WMDs Found in Iraq Consisted of Cyclosarin By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press Writer ©Indiana Printing & Publishing Co.


http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040624-112920-5897r.htm
above - Iraqi insurgents seek Saddam's chemical arms Washington Times (if the insurgents seek them, then they may know that they are present while are press seems to be naive about it - me). and here is more related to this concern: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39158

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/13/sprj.irq.mobile.lab/
above - mobile Bio weapons lab found CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/25/se.04.html
above - CNN has learned that the Central Intelligence Agency has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology CNN

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2003/david_kay_10022003.html
above - I think this is a good read for all Americans

http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html
above: 27 December 2002, IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)

http://www.nopunditintended.com/?q=weapons-of-mass-destruction-Iraq
above - Stockpiles of WMDs found by American forces in Iraq
Submitted by Barney Brenner on Sat, 07/09/2005 - 07:34. Mid-East-Analysis | Political Op-Ed | WOT-

http://www.kentimmerman.com/2004_04_25syria.htm
above - more interesting reading and here is more from Timmerman: http://www.kentimmerman.com/2004_04_25wmd.htm


http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/005965.html
above - a good essay

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/13/115752.shtml?s=lh
Saddam's ambitions are clear


But the final report is this:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-10-06-wmd_x.htm

[OldFriend]

Thanks for the info.

Without FR I'd be completely in the dark.

[JustDoItAlways]

Just wanted to reinforce that Saddam was not going to just leave 500 sarin nerve gas shells laying around (as degraded as they may have been.)

He was certifiable paranoid about being assassinated and would have made sure they were being tracked and were being protected by trustworthy Baathist-relative types.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Colmes is an absolute moron.

Hoekstra mentions what to me is the KEY finding of the Duelfer Report -- that Iraq maintained the intent and ability to manufacture WMD as soon as sanctions were lifted.

Colmes "responds" with a quote from the report that has just been disproven by today's news.

This is the best they have to offer?

[Windcatcher]

Colmes can be such a dishonest snake. He knows full well that if a terrorist uses the material from a "degraded" chemical weapon in a subway, IT CAN STILL KILL YOU. The SOB has a hell of a lot of nerve making people think they're safe from these kinds of weapons when they aren't.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"The reason any WMD's in Iraq would be kept secret would be to keep Al Queda from digging around looking for it before we could find it."

Which explains the hundreds of trucks leaving Iraq in the days leading up to the war. We had them all tracked by satellite and presto! they vanish.

Bush bet he could withstand the "No WMD" onslaught by the left. It was more important that we were safe then to worry about the political fallout.