Sen Rick Santorum (R-Pa) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) held a press conference yesterday to announce that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, only to have their claims flatly disavowed by the U.S. Department of Defense. Santorum and Hoekstra were talking about the degraded and inoperable remnants of Saddam's pre-1991 chemical weapons program that are turning up at various sites around Iraq. Their allegations are based on the U.S. government's own Iraq Survey Group. The very same report convinced President Bush that Iraq did not have WMD.
The DOD flatly disavowed the Congressmen's WMD claims. ThinkProgress: "Fox News’ Jim Angle contacted the Defense Department who quickly disavowed Santorum and Hoekstra’s claims. A Defense Department official told Angle flatly that the munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra are “not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.”
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5 comments:
This is just a wild-stab-in-the-fucking-dark guess, but do you think him being down 18 points in his senate race has anything to do with this?
What a scumbag.
WMD - Weapons of mild discomfort.
Jeremy:
That's EXACTLY why he's pulling this sh*t. He's going down and I couldn't be happier. He is disgusts me.
Hearing Santorum's holier-than-thou certainty shoved back in his face by his own government is priceless. What an absolute moron.
WMD - Weapons of mass distraction.
Santorum's a tool, and should have known better than to fail to check the background.
Dbackdad:
Yeah priceless indeed.
Kvatch:
He is a tool or perhaps a chunk of stool that won't flush down? That image goes perfectly with the picture that I posted along with this post.
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