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Gold9472
06-22-2006, 10:28 AM
Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims
Thanks to www.thinkprogress.org (http://www.thinkprogress.org/)

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/21/dod-disavows-santorum/

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Video
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Today, 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 (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/21/santorum-wmd/).

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:

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Transcript:

COLMES: 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.

casseia
06-22-2006, 10:37 AM
http://www.spreadingsantorum.comThis is, by the way, the NUMBER ONE google hit for "santorum."

werther
06-22-2006, 12:14 PM
that site is distgustingly awesome!

beltman713
06-22-2006, 03:53 PM
This will come back to bite Santorum.

PhilosophyGenius
06-22-2006, 05:30 PM
Owned!

I love the look on there stupid faces after they were beating there chests and were all pround of finding those usless depleted pre-91 chemicals.

:confused1 :confused1 <----Here's the re-creation of that interview.