Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq: US intelligence

AFP ^

[Freeport]

US-led coalition forces in Iraq have found some 500 chemical weapons since the March 2003 invasion, Republican lawmakers said, citing an intelligence report.

"Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent," said an overview of the report unveiled by Senator Rick Santorum and Peter Hoekstra, head of the intelligence committee of the House of Representatives.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Dangifino. It is just some random nitwit happy to be painfully ignorant ;)

[liberty_lvr]

Thank you.

My pleasure. Annihilating a blinded Euroweenie in a cloud of ozone is a fairly satisfying way to start the day.

Too bad, though; I am a fan of Formula 1 too. Just wish it wasn't so eurocentric.

[stevestras]

"WHY has the Administration waited so long to release and publicize this material?"

I can only speculate that they have looked at how the story would unfold and determined it to be not helpful to their cause. Like several other terror-related stories the last few years.

I've been watching Fox for the last 30 minutes, this story hasn't been mentioned once.

[CedarDave]

There are all sorts of stories out there, including that we don't want to embarass the French, Russians, Germans who supplied the gas. Or that the Russians helped move the gas to Syria, or one farfetched one that the Russians switched the gas before the canisters went to Syria and took the real stuff back to Russia with them. Others I've heard are that all the info gathered was lost by Centcom in summer 2003 when a hard drive was erased/lost during there move from Saudi Arabia to Quatar, and a February NY Sun article that they are buried in the sand, covered with concrete and soil and flooded to create a marsh.

[steveegg]

No doubt we will see Jack Murtha over there soon, sipping a glass of degraded sarin to prove how "safe" it really is.

We can only hope :-)

Never mind that the same lieberals were bleating that we couldn't burn up those Redeye chemical bombs back in the 1980s, even though what was in them was at least as old as what we found in Iraq.

[CedarDave]

I've been watching Fox for the last 30 minutes, this story hasn't been mentioned once.

It's just a single link on the Fox website now. It will get covered by Rush today and then dropped, unfortunately.

[1Old Pro]

I guess even though we have now found WMD's, they are not the right WMD's. Go figure.

[Dolphy]

"these were not the WMDs we were looking for"

I keep hearing that one too. I wonder which ones we were looking for.

[roses of sharon]

Your right, and in a way I'm glad that FR has finally recognized that no matter what the WH says or does, the MSM will have a intell or DOD "source" to call them liars.

And the Pres knows this, and has known it for a long time.

He will always be defeated by the MSM because a President cannot play tit-for-tat with intell and win with enormous strength of power against him, ie, the MSM/DNC/CIA/Hollywood/Academia.

These internal enemies of the US must be discredited FIRST. They have complete control over the public with their propaganda.

It is a one sided 24/7 political campaign FOR the enemy on the ground in Iraq, and AGAINST the US war effort.

If the US tries any propaganda against the enemy the MSM will discredit it as such, any facts and info are squashed, any good deed of our soldiers are suppressed, any investigation met with glee, and any murders of civilians by the enemy is a "win" according to the MSM.

As long as they have the power, we will lose against the Islamic cults, just as Israel has lost after 20 years of battling them.

[Dolphy]

He will always be defeated by the MSM because a President cannot play tit-for-tat with intell and win with enormous strength of power against him, ie, the MSM/DNC/CIA/Hollywood/Academia.

I think you're exactly right. Every time one of these facts emerges we have some unnamed source surfacing to dispute them. I know this much, Rumsfeld and Cheney aren't going to be outplayed, they are too smart and too battle hardened. A,nd the President is not going to see his mission compromised he has sent men and women to war, giving them the best shot to win is his primary objective.

[ZULU]

There are actually two separate fox stations, aren't there?

There's the station which has Hannity and O'Reilly, and another one which is liberal. Or am I wrong? I could swear I have seen two different ones.

[freeperfromnj]

“You're down 18 points in the polls Senator... aren't you just using this...” -Alan Colmes

I saw that exchange. It was very ugly and he appeared very small.

[avacado]

Thank God for CNN breaking the news! /sarc

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[Bommer]

They've known all along there were WMD there--in fact, as some of these were found, news articles were filed and posted on the internet--then the stories just died on the vine.

True the problem the adminsitration has (like Santorum) is that yes, WMDs were found in old shells, but not the UN inventory of all the thousands of tons of Ricin, Sarin and other chemical stockpiles have not been accounted for (since they are now in Syria.) Therefore, in the lib mindset no real WMD's were found.

The real problem seems to be that Bush is his own worse enemy. He did not standup to support the Yellow Cake claim from the British. He did not stand up to Joe Wilsons lies! He did not stand up to defend the fact that Saddam's chemical inventory was substanciated by over 10 different Governments. He refused to investigate into the weapons being transported to Syria. And why is Santorum announcing this instead of Bush? Like I said, Bush is his own worse enemy (sorry bots, but its true)

[MizSterious]

For those who have forgotten, here is a listing of things we found when we went into Iraq.

[johnny7]

Colmes is a visually, repulsive individual... his counter arguments seldom have value.

[lugsoul]

Only one on this thread - others on other threads.

"Seeking a nuclear program." There are probably only a few dozen countries doing this. In what order do you want to take them out?

[newkidonblock]

Excellent job!

[Paloma_55]

Excellent Essay.

I must take a minor exception with your tagline though... (sorry)

Abortion is to family planning as *murdering your accountant* is to financial planning.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks. I'll take up your criticism with my Tagline Editor, who is currently out of the office. :)