GOP conspires to hold back: REPORT: WMDS found in Iraq
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Oh, you just know I have to go here. I'm gonna blow the whistle on the whole Vast Right Wing Conspiracy here. I hate to do it, but I have to before some left wing nut job comes along and figures it out and becomes a big hero for doing it (figuring it out).
How am I gonna blow the whistle? How about by pointing to the following news (headline is linked):
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
WASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.
"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.
Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum 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 report continues here...
The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.
Hoekstra said the report, completed in April but only declassified now, shows that "there is still a lot about Iraq that we don't fully understand."
Asked why the Bush administration, if it had known about the information since April or earlier, didn't advertise it, Hoekstra conjectured that the president has been forward-looking and concentrating on the development of a secure government in Iraq.
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."
There's more in the original article, but right there you have all the proof you would ever need of the vast right wing conspiracy. What do I mean? It isn't hard to figure it out.
Bush was sitting on this news. This is old news, not declassified until recently, and even then not trumpeted by the Bush administration. They were sitting on the story to save it for an October surprise. Much like the recent death of Al-Zaqari or whatever that moron's name was, the news was being saved to be drug out just in time to influence the elections. It was gonna be sprung just in time to give Bush a boost, to deflate the liberals and help keep congress firmly in the hands of the GOP.
Ooops, did I just blow that whole plan right out of the water? Nah, it was Santorum's fault (oh, wait, he's part of the VRWC, and he is perhaps in a little danger back in his home state. I guess he gets to be the mouth piece for this story so that he can club his opponent over the head and win back his seat).
How am I gonna blow the whistle? How about by pointing to the following news (headline is linked):
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
WASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.
"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.
Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum 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 report continues here...
The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.
Hoekstra said the report, completed in April but only declassified now, shows that "there is still a lot about Iraq that we don't fully understand."
Asked why the Bush administration, if it had known about the information since April or earlier, didn't advertise it, Hoekstra conjectured that the president has been forward-looking and concentrating on the development of a secure government in Iraq.
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."
There's more in the original article, but right there you have all the proof you would ever need of the vast right wing conspiracy. What do I mean? It isn't hard to figure it out.
Bush was sitting on this news. This is old news, not declassified until recently, and even then not trumpeted by the Bush administration. They were sitting on the story to save it for an October surprise. Much like the recent death of Al-Zaqari or whatever that moron's name was, the news was being saved to be drug out just in time to influence the elections. It was gonna be sprung just in time to give Bush a boost, to deflate the liberals and help keep congress firmly in the hands of the GOP.
Ooops, did I just blow that whole plan right out of the water? Nah, it was Santorum's fault (oh, wait, he's part of the VRWC, and he is perhaps in a little danger back in his home state. I guess he gets to be the mouth piece for this story so that he can club his opponent over the head and win back his seat).
