I know have some swamps near Foggy Bottom, but are there any on the Delaware River? I keep having this vision of a big thick oozing mudpit, with Rick Santorum's hand sticking out of it flailing about to grab at
anything to pull himself out. Now Hannity's jumping up and down saying "See? He's got something!" But the FOX bosses are saying "It's still his funeral." From CNN, Not a peep. The Press Conference at WH spent a sweet diddly five minutes on it with Rumsfeld, who damned the idea with faint praise. I thought the color commentators on CNN would say something on it, but no. Not one mouth uttered the words "WMD!" jack Cafferty is the bellweather, and I heard nothing from him. Olbermann just called it "Weapon's of Minor Discomfort."
This I got from
FOX FAN:
Yesterday Republican members of Congress called a press conference to read portions of a Defense Department intelligence unit report.
Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania read the following statement.
"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons... Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent".
Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, continued:
"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"
To some this will sound like a slam-dunk justification of President Bush's and Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq in March of 2003.
A senior Defense Department official, however, made the following clarifications:
* These findings do not reflect a WMD capacity that was built up after 1991.
* These are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had.
* These are not the WMDs for which this country went to war.
This came from FOX FAN's
Father Jonathan.