Posted on 06/21/2006 2:39:13 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
On Fox right now
ROFL...It's top secert..If I tell you...
JUST as I was clicking SEND..I saw the typo..knew I'd hear from you on it.. :)
I wouldn't rush to judgment. Hoekstra is chairman of the House intelligence committtee. For him to associate himself with this information makes it significant to me. As some have posited on this thread, keeping the information secret may have been intentional fearing that the enemy would either find them or use them.
If the WMD are in artillery shells, that would make them operable assuming the agent hasn't degraded significantly. We also found yellow cake in Iraq and sent it back to the US.
That's a very good point. If its true, the Admin should not be hesitant in pointing it out.
LOL! She's one of the main reasons my wife wanted to move out of California!
LMAO!!
I was on the other thread. ;-)
Bump ya anyway.
Santorum on Senate floor now talking about WMD
CSPAN 2
You just wanna be with the popular crowd. ;o)
LOL. But to answer your question, I did not hear Rush on the subject.
Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 21, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically "sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles," in Iraq.
Reading from unclassified portions of a document developed by the U.S. intelligence community, 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."
According to Santorum, "That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country."
Reading from the document, Santorum added, "Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the Black Market. Use of these weapons by terrorist or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside of Iraq cannot be ruled out. The most likely munitions remaining are sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles. And I underscore filled."
Santorum said the "purity of the agents inside the munitions depends on many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives and environmental storage conditions."
While acknowledging that the agents "degrade over time," the document said that the chemicals "remain hazardous and potentially lethal."
The media has reported that "insurgents and Iraqi groups" want to "acquire and use chemical weapons," Santorum noted.
The Pennsylvania senator called the finding "incredibly" significant.
"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. "We have found over 500 weapons of mass destruction and in fact have found that there are additional chemical weapons still in the country."
As Cybercast News Service reported on Oct. 6, 2004, the CIA's chief inspector in Iraq provides details that corroborate information contained in 42 pages of Iraqi intelligence documents obtained by CNSNews.com.
The so-called Duelfer report, named for its author, Charles Duelfer, is widely recognized for declaring that no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Other details of the report, however, provide a glimpse of what some Iraq experts say is Saddam's attempt to continue to wage war against the U.S. after the first Gulf War ended.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200606/NAT20060621e.html
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I recall when the US destroyed our own stockpiles of chemical weapons. They had been stored for many years, but still were highly dangerous.
Santorum live in the Senate on CSPAN2 now talking about this!!!
Oooh, do you have my sympathies. My own family - the part that lives in CA, at any rate - are raving liberals and I always have to pledge to myself that when they visit me here in Florida I WILL NOT ENGAGE. It's pointless, they're so brainwashed by the SF Chron that they have no idea what's going on.
I have to bite my tongue till it bleeds. But I've gotten really good at changing the topic!
let me guess, they are already trying to poo poo it?
There are still Chemical weapon shells (Mustard gas) from the First World War that are a significant danger in Belgium.
That's a good question. According to the panel on the Brit Hume report tonight, the Administration did not want to go back and visit the WMD issue. Sort of wimpy if you ask me. Another thing, the libs on the show said that these WMD were not the ones the President was talking about when he got us into this war. WMDs are WMDs. What kind of reasoning goes into what libs say?
Democrats will just say we had them the whole time, waiting for the right time. "Look at the timing".
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