Breaking on Fox Rick Santorum Reading Unclassified Version over 500 Chemical WMDs Found

[driftless]

"degraded"

According to a post I read on the TKA blog from NRO online, mustard gas made in the early nineties was still about 95% potent ten years later. That's pretty potent. And even if sarin gas degrades faster, I don't believe any of the moonbat libs like Kerry would want some of the recently found "degraded" s-gas dumped in their bedtime tea.

[centristo]

I think it's more that we looked the other way when it happened. Iraq certainly had chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. We knew that but didn't act because Iran was viewed as the bigger threat.

As for these WMD reports I am very cynical. I think if something substantial was found everyone in America would know about it from the ensuing media blitz.

[Eagle Eye]

What do you consider "substantial"?

[jackv]

According to Jane Harmon, the weapons are no more dangerous than the stuff under our kitchen sinks.

Talk about "unfreakinbelievable!!!"

[april15Bendovr]

Alan Colmes should read this.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39158

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
1st chemical attack
by terrorists in Iraq
Sources report mustard gas
inside Baghdad's Green Zone

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Posted: June 26, 2004
11:28 a.m. Eastern

Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.

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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A day after the head of the CIA weapons inspection team warned that terrorists in Iraq are trying to get their hands on the Saddam Hussein regime's chemical weapons of mass destruction, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports the first attack with these weapons of mass destruction has been launched inside Baghdad's Green Zone.

Few details are available, including any casualties associated with the attack using mustard gas.

The sources say the munitions were old, but still potentially lethal.

"I think it's safe to say our little friends know where the cache is now," said one source sardonically.


The Green Zone is the area of Baghdad where the U.S.-led coalition authority established its headquarters in the immediate aftermath of the invasion in April last year.

On Thursday, Charles Duelfer, the head of the CIA weapons inspection team, said terrorists in Iraq are seeking chemical arms and expertise left over from the Hussein regime for possible use against U.S. and allied troops. He added that his team has so far found as many as a dozen chemical-filled bombs – far more than previously reported.

"What we are finding is that there are some networks that are seeking to tap into ... this expertise, and try to use it against the United States," Duelfer told Fox News Channel's Brit Hume. "And we are very concerned about that. That is a problem."

Duelfer said that investigations into arms laboratories in Iraq and interviews with former Iraqi arms specialists revealed that "former experts in the country's weapons of mass destruction program are being recruited by anti-coalition groups."

"They are being paid by anti-coalition groups," he said. "We're seeing interest in developing chemical munitions."

Asked whether anything suggests that insurgents actually are getting the expertise or may be ready to use it, Duelfer said: "We want to follow that very, very closely."

Duelfer expressed special concern that al-Qaida associate Abu Musab Zarqawi will acquire and use chemical weapons. Zarqawi, he said, "is one bad actor, and if he gets his hands on it, he'll use it."

The Jordanian-born Islamist, believed to be the leader of the foreign insurgents in Iraq, is known to be a specialist in bomb making. U.S. officials believe al-Zarqawi was behind the coordinated attacks earlier this week that killed at least 100 people and wounded about 320.

Duelfer said his inspection team has uncovered bombs filled with blistering mustard gas or the nerve agent sarin.

"We're not sure how many more are out there that haven't been found, but we've found 10 or 12 sarin and mustard rounds," he said. "I'm reluctant to judge what that means at this point, but there's other aspects of the program which we still have to flush out."

In May, U.S. military officials found a bomb containing chemicals to form sarin gas and another with a mustard agent – weapons Saddam was required to destroy under U.S. sanctions and terms of the cease-fire from the 1990-91 Gulf war.

The Washington Times reports military officials have uncovered about 8,700 weapons depots and continue to find new ones. They estimate the weapons depots in Iraq contain between 650,000 and 1 million tons of arms, which are believed to be a source for anti-coalition forces.

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[penelopesire]

lol..pretty catchy!!

[Rick_Michael]

I would love to see the actual report....since it's declassified I would assume it's somewhere out there, and should be online within time.

[penelopesire]

I just heard that on Brit's News Show! If the rest of the Congressional republicans don't get off their duffs and start smacking these ridiculous dem statements down pretty soon they deserve to lose! ARGHHHH!!

[driftless]

"harman"

Then she wouldn't mind if we took just one of those mustard shells and opened it up inside her house. She'd bolt faster than Dracula before a crucifix.

The libs are undoubtedly sick to their collective stomachs upon hearing these wmd revelations. That with the revelations of the Hussein docs showing his close relationship with Al-Qaeda, and Al-Zarqawi's death, the libs are palpitating with fear. They have to make light of or ignore these recent events, but eventually the public will discover that the real liars have been the libs...like always.

[jackv]

No kidding!!! If everyone hears how preposterous they are they're done for!! It's up to the republicans. Thank goodness for Fox, tho, too and thank goodness that it's the highest rated news network!! Keep reporting how liberals are dangerous to this country!!!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If they were docs embarrassing to Bush, they would've been declassified faster than you can say 'Jack Robinson'.

[edzo4]

pay no attention to that hidden sarin gas it is old, pay no attention to those jets hidden in the sand they are old, bush lied there are no wmd in iraq trust us take our word for it

[hoosiermama]

Maybe someone should offer to store it under her sink then!

[centristo]

something meeting the criteria that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell set for WMDs before we invaded.

I think many different definitions were used, but I would think an ACTIVE, post-1991 WMD program would suffice, whether it is nuclear, chemical or biological.

I just don't buy that Rick Santorum of all people would be the one to break the news of finding WMDs in Iraq.

[centristo]

hey, that liquid plumber stuff is no joke. /s

[Eagle Eye]

Saddam was supposed to certifiy that he was rid of WMDs.

He couldn't and didn't.

The US never had the burden of proof.

HOWEVER...with all that has been found plus all the evidence of pre war transfer, there is no truth to the "Bush Lied" mantra.

There were and are chemical weapons in Iraq.

Do you consider about 400 gallons of mustard agent in one location to be insignificant? I saw it and I didn't consider it insignificant.

[centristo]

What about Rice claiming that "we don't want the smoking gun to be in the form of a mushroom cloud?" I always had the impression that Iraq was supposed to have a nuclear weapons program.

Mustard gas is pretty serious, and I wouldn't want to be exposed to it, but I'm not sure that it qualifies as a WMD, a weapon of mass DESTRUCTION. What does mustard gass destroy? It causes blisters, not craters. Plus it's only lethal in about 1% of cases.

I just don't think this is the vindication we are looking for.

[Eagle Eye]

What does mustard gass destroy?

Human flesh.

Where are you getting info that says that 'mustard' is only lethal in 1% of cases?

Lethality depends on dose and route of exposure.

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons have always been under the umbrella of WMD.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"If any of them can somehow admit the facts, then the new mantra will be that the info has been withheld for political purposes, or the timing "why now" is suspect, etc.\"

You are right, they will try that, and the only response needed is Iraq is now a democracy and Zarqawi is dead.

[DaveGaubatz]

from Dave Gaubatz, ref: NY Times article 23 Jun 2006; "Diehards still believe WMD exist", If you want to know the truth please vist my website www.davegaubatz.com.
I was referred to your blog on this issue..I will be on the Neil Cavuto show, Monday, 26 june 2006, 4pm est..thanks, Dave Gaubatz