Posted on 06/21/2006 2:39:13 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
On Fox right now
Me too.
Sean Hannity actually asked Santorum about this (Iraq moving its WMD to Syria) on H&C just now. Santorum said something to the effect that there was no direct evidence but that he wouldn't be surprised...it will be very interesting to see which of the big-name Dimwits if any will be the first to apologize. DU and the Hollyweird crowd must behaving a meltdown right now.
Senate Intelligence Committee Members: Weapons of Mass Destruction Exist in Iraq
By Jim Kouri, CPP
Jun 21, 2006, 20:23
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the discovery of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction. The WMD found were sarin gas and mustard gas contained in projectiles, according to Fox News Channel's Special Report.
Sen. Santorium, reading from a newly declassified intelligence, said, "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist." The statement was aired on The Mark Levin Show, as well as FNC.
"That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country," said Santorium.
Reading from the document on camera, Santorum added, "Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the Black Market. Use of these weapons by terrorist or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside of Iraq cannot be ruled out. The most likely munitions remaining are sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles. And I underscore filled."
Santorum also said the "purity of the agents inside the munitions depends on many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives and environmental storage conditions."
While acknowledging that the agents "degrade over time," the document said that the chemicals "remain hazardous and potentially lethal," according to Levin.
The media has reported that "insurgents and Iraqi groups" want to "acquire and use chemical weapons," Santorum noted said during a press conference.
The Pennsylvania senator called the finding "incredibly" significant.
"The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction is in fact false," Santorum said.
"We have found over 500 weapons of mass destruction and in fact have found that there are additional chemical weapons still in the country."
Other portions of the intelligence report provide a glimpse of what some Iraq experts say is Saddam's attempt to continue to wage war against the US after the first Gulf War ended.
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that in the days before the US-led invasion of Iraq, one of Saddam's generals, Georges Sada, said he witnessed what he believes were large volumes of WMD being transported into Syria. He also states that members of the Russian military assisted the Iraqis in removing the weapons.
In another story, also in the Times, it was reported that Saddam's top commanders were demoralized when he told them he had no WMD for them to use in order to repel the invaders.
Except for Fox News and a couple of newspapers, the news media have not reported on the Santorum press conference and the details contained in the intelligence report.
BUMP!!!
You know who I'm mad at?
President Bush himself.
He let us conservatives carry this water, he appears to take the position to allow history, our American history that my granddaughter will learn, to be a LIE! He gave the liberals and the rest of the America-hating world talking points that were not true.
I'm very bitter.
Yup. As much as the Loony Left mock Bush, he is an adult, and understands what is at stake.
He could have kicked the ball down the road to the next guy, like Clinton did.
But some -- most -- presidents are not teenaged boys who have a dysfunctional need to be loved. Some actually understand the gravity of the job.
Since you mentioned DU, here's their best comments:
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Contrary1
Since 2003?
I'm impressed! They were able to keep this super-duper secret under wraps until 2006,
which just happens to be an election year.
Go figure.
AND
stepnw1f
surrrrrrreeeee......yawnnnn
and Bin Laden is waiting in a freezer....
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Those moonbats are so predictable.
"WE (the US) taught and trained them how to make and use chemical weapons"
Yeah, right. Got any evidence that this statement is true?
not only an odious jerk; he betrays his essence when he says this rubbish: not wanting to get to the truth when it is on your side becuase you allowed yourself to be handled in the past. Bill Kristol always has "sources" in the administration that tell him these demoralizing things about the Bush white house. I wonder why that is????
He and Fred Barnes are now almost birds of a feather. I have given up on Fred Barnes. They are both idiots and tools of the beltway regime.
The critics said the mustard gas was degraded and it was from the Desert Storm period. If 500 CW shell are sitting around they should been destroyed even if it was old....UN Resolution said everything had to be disclosed.
The guys said on H&C...France, China and Russia were involved...good timing when Bush is in Europe. He's collecting Iraqi Reconstruction Pledges.
They have not all been destroyed. They are in the process of burning them now at the Umatilla, Oregon Chemical Depot. They constantly have warnings about what to do should there be a problem.
The mustard gas might be worthless now but the sarin gas could do some real damage in the hands of Al Queda.
I'm getting a lot of joy out of this.
Thanks for letting me know ab out Santorum/Syria; I was talking to my husband and didn't hear that.
Hold your horses! These weapons may have already been accounted for and deemed to be degraded.
At this point, it's best to not jump the gun.
"traitors lied, people died."
Go to every lefty web site and start saying it.
"traitors lied, people died."
Go to every lefty web site and start saying it.
LOL.
Sean Hannity just said "If the WMD are so degraded, can we bury them in the liberal's backyards?"
I believe they're right on. You don't put your reputation on flimsy evidence in an ultra-contraversial matter within months of an election. This probably was long planned. My guess is the debate will center on the efficacy of the agent at the time it was discovered; "potentially lethal" should pass muster but we all know how these things go.
I'm just saying, let's not run off in all directions, as many did over Able Danger, and be very disappointed.
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