[CedarDave]

From the Fox News web site:

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

If this is the offical Administration position, it gives the Rats all the information they need to discount everything Santorum said yesterday. That "official" needs to be identified and put on the record. But the damage has been done. For whatever reason, instead of embracing the report and saying "See, we (the Bush administration) were right about WMD's; they were there all along," they are going the other direction and sticking with the "there were no recent WMD's" story. After all a chemical bomb is a chemical bomb. The question is why? Why are they shooting themselves in the foot and not only refusing to acknowledge this but not shouting it forcefully?

There should be some very hard questions asked of Snow and Defense officals at today's press briefings.

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One theory I heard that came from another freeper suggested that Bush is downplaying this because he doesn't want to alert the terrorist to the WMD existence because if they get hold of some and find that they are still viable, the terrorists can do great harm to our troops and country. Bush would rather take the political hit from the Dems than put our troops and nation at risk because that's the kind of outstanding President we have in the Whitehouse. I agree. This fits, and is the only plausible reason I can think of for not totally obliterating the Dems lies. After all, I heard that Bush fought to keep this information classified.