Santorum Makes Major Announcement Regarding WMD's

The greatest mind of the 14th Century strikes again...

“The information released today proves that weapons of mass destruction are, in fact, in Iraq,” said Senator Santorum. “It is essential for the American people to understand that these weapons are in Iraq. I will continue to advocate for the complete declassification of this report so we can more fully understand the complete WMD picture inside Iraq.”

The following are the six key points contained in the unclassified overview:

• 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.

• Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the black market. Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups would have implications for Coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside Iraq cannot be ruled out.

• The most likely munitions remaining are sarin and mustard-filled projectiles.

• The purity of the agent inside the munitions depends on many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives, and environmental storage conditions. While agents degrade over time, chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal.

• It has been reported in open press that insurgents and Iraqi groups desire to acquire and use chemical weapons.

http://santorum.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.View&ContentRecord_id=1891&Region_id=0&Issue_id=0

And he's been embarrassed on FOX News, of all places. Hoo-hah.

They will use them on our troops. They're saving them for a rainy day, right Ricky??

Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1481756&mesg_id=1481756

...Once again proving that 'reality' has a known liberal bias.

REBUILDING IN THE GULF
Hundreds of WMDs discovered in Iraq
Bombshell report notes 500 chemical weapons including sarin, mustard gas, more to be found
Posted: June 21, 2006
10:39 p.m. Eastern


(Link to right-wing hate site deliberately omitted).

I am from Pgh. and I can tell you this, he better stay in Virginia, as the people in the school district are up in arms that he cheated them by having his kids take remote classes. He has no chance in the western part of the state. No one there is listening to him anymore, the die is cast for him. The fact that he is spewing this bs about wmd will only make it worse for him.

have any mention of Ricky's major announcement of information that " proves that weapons of mass destruction are, in fact, in Iraq". Wouldn't you think they'd have something?

...he'd have it made. "Greatest Mind of the 14th Century" is cute, but dishonors the legacy of Ghengis Khan.

His release of the WMD "news" on the same day that a poll shows that his approval rating is at a 4 year low is the pathetic act of a desperate man.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Bob Casey's lead over U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has stretched to 18 percentage points since early May, as Casey picked up new support and the Republican incumbent's approval rating skidded to a four-year low, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Casey, Pennsylvania's Democratic state treasurer, leads Santorum 52 percent to 34 percent - the biggest margin since October, when the numbers were the same, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.

Only 38 percent of the respondents said they approved of the way Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, is handling his job. Forty-five percent said they disapproved and 16 percent did not express an opinion.

It was the first time the senator's approval rating had dropped below 40 percent since Quinnipiac began measuring it in June 2002. It also was the latest sign of distress for the outspoken conservative, an ally of President Bush on issues that included a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and private savings accounts for Social Security.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14867471.htm