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.
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.
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.