Over 500 WMD's found in Iraq

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mainstream media lied about WMD's

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>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."
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[The Doctor]

Just so the kooks here don't accuse Fox News of making this up here is a story from the AP wire:

Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq: US intelligence
Jun 22 1:56 AM US/Eastern
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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.

"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," it says.

The lawmakers cited the report as validation of the US rationale for the war, and stressed the ongoing danger they pose.

"This is an incredibly -- in my mind -- significant finding. 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.

A Pentagon official who confirmed the findings said that all the weapons were pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for."

The official, who asked not to be identified, said most were 155 millimeter artillery projectiles with mustard gas or sarin of varying degrees of potency.

"We're destroying them where we find them in the normal manner," the official said.

In 2004, the US army said it had found a shell containing sarin gas and another shell containing mustard gas, and a Pentagon official said at the time the discovery showed there were likely more.

The intelligence overview published Wednesday stressed that the pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the black market.

"Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside Iraq cannot be ruled out," it said.

Santorum said the two-month-old report was prepared by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a military intelligence agency that started looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the Iraq Survey Group stopped doing so in late 2004.

Last year the head of Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, said that insurgents in Iraq had already used old chemical weapons in their attacks.

Nevertheless, "the impression that the Iraqi Survey Group left with the American people was they didn't find anything," Hoekstra said.

"But this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons exist. And they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," he said.

Asked just how dangerous the weapons are, Hoekstra said: "One or two of these shells, the materials inside of these, transferred outside of the country, can be very, very deadly."

The report said that the purity of the chemical agents -- and thus their potency -- depends on "many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives, and environmental storage conditions."

"While agents degrade over time, chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal," it said.

Reporters questioned the lawmakers as to why the Bush administration had not played up the report to boost their case for continued warfare in Iraq.

"The administration has been very clear that they want to look forward," Santorum said. "They felt it was not their role to go back and fight previous discussions."

Fear that Saddam Hussein might use his alleged arsenal of chemical and biological weapons was a reason US officials gave for launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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[cash]

Just so the kooks here don't accuse Fox News of making this up here is a story from the AP wire:

Doctor: You seem to be more agitated as the days go by. Why?

[The Doctor]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: cash

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Doctor: You seem to be more agitated as the days go by. Why?</end quote></div>

Because people ask me questions like that.

[cash]

ergo I'm a kook. Doctor Demento I presume?

[bullseye]

Good thing was moved from main forum. Lasted about as long as it will on main stream media. Heaven forbid people should actually be informed about what is really going on.

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Talk about desperation, it's been a real treat the last couple of weeks watching those sorry losers try to respond to their unheard-of poll numbers in the only way they know how, with the usual low-IQ stunts. First, of course, the reminder that gay people are trying to destroy the American family. Then the actual dispatching of a real enemy! We have no idea where Osama is, and he's a friend of the Bush family anyway, so untouchable, but when we need some positive PR we can always bump off one of these spear carriers whose itinerary we appear to magically acquire whenever the "president's" approval rating falls below Charles Manson's. Now the news that there were WMDs after all -- just lying on the ground waiting to be noticed. Imagine that! Darn those incompetent UN inspectors anyway!

Kind of sad to watch the pathetic house of cards crumble, isn't it, "Doc?" I know you're not old enough to know any better, but there are people still around today who once felt about tinhorns like Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy the way you feel about that unwashed rectum George Bush. But you don't hear too much from them anymore, because history has revealed them as laughable, easily-controlled dupes. You're a dupe too, "Doc," and history will deal you out just as surely as if you were a 1960s hard-hat bawling about combatting the scourge of Communism in SE Asia.

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Hey, bullseye, nothing personal, but you don't even know the difference between a plural and a possessive (WMD's?). If you're ignorant about your own native language, isn't it at least plausible to suggest that you're not equipped to evaluate the utterances of self-interested politicians trying to pull their asses out of the fire?

Fox News and the Republican Party live on the backs of people like you who will believe anything. Wake up.

[Rookies]

"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.

More-on leading the Bush more-on right !

Just how low does he want those Bush poll numbers to go ? Below the Babe's jersey ?

SHUT UP and stop embarassing us all with your idiocy.

Jack-s was found by anybody who looked. If this was the sole pretext for the lunacy going on in Iraq, it was patently bogus.

The vast majority of the world, outside the Santorumites want to turn the page on this sad, pitiful Presidency as quickly and quietly as possible.