June 21, 2006
Look Up the Definition of the Word "Pathetic"
This is from Think Progress:
Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD ClaimsToday, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) held a press conference and announced “we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” Santorum and Hoekstra are hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions that were already acknowledged by the White House’s Iraq Survey Group and dismissed.
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.”
Fox’s Alan Colmes broke the news to Santorum. Watch it:
Transcript:
COMBS: Congressman, Senator, it’s Alan Colmes. Senator, the Iraq Survey Group — let me go to the Duelfer Report — says that Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle reported this for Fox News quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded. And the official went on to say these are not the WMD’s this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had and not the WMD’s for which this country went to war. So the chest beating at this Republicans are doing tonight thinking this is a justification is not confirmed by the defense department.
SANTORUM: I’d like to know who that is. The fact of the matter is, I’ll wait and see what the actual Defense Department formally says or more important what the administration formally says.
Spin, Senator. It isn't going to help you.
Posted by Melanie at June 21, 2006 11:18 PM | TrackBackWe were sold a credible threat to us posed by WMD. Not a technicality. Big, bad things that could hurt us, not some scrap that might offend the blue-helmets' lawyers.
If you can't find it - or the mess that chemical plants, biolabs, and nuke facilities leave behind that take advanced nations decades to clean up - within a few weeks of having the run of the place, you lied about your evidence. Evidence that is worth that much money and life to follow up on has to include multiple sources with verifiable cross-checkable details: names, places, descriptions...
If they now find a complete and operational doomesday device, they were still lying about their evidence. Because solid evidence would have led directly to the facility, or the toxic dump where the facility used to be, years ago.
If I'm wrong, I want the elves that moved all the stuff to Syria so cleanly brought over to take care of our Superfund sites.
Shorter version: We are supposed to be there protecting the USA from lots of big, bad bombs, not acting as the UN's cops enforcing the letter of the resolutions. These ain't big, bad bombs we need protection from, at most they are a technical violation of a UN resolution.
Why do I have to be the Republican, arguing for America's interests as opposed to the UN's? That's Santorum's job (when he's not busy being the frothy mix that is the occasional side effect of anal sex).
