Shrinkwrapped (who is not an Anti-Anti-Islamofascist), in a post entitled If a Tree Falls in the Forest, points out:
Yesterday afternoon John Stephenson
reported that Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra
(R-Mich.) had released the details of a recently declassified document:
….
the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction,
specifically “sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles,” in Iraq
and
This morning, a search of the New York Times for articles that mention “sarin” returned no hits.
and
I would maintain that even if the powers that be in the MSM and at NPR do not see this news as evidence of an active pre-war WMD program or stockpile, a point that no one is suggesting I might add, reporting on 500 poison gas shells would be unequivocal evidence of Saddam’s past WMD programs and non-compliance with his agreement to destroy his entire stock of WMD (which was one of the reasons Bush gave for going to war in the first place.) To anticipate the next objection, which I heard on Imus this morning, that the shells were probably old armaments that were misplaced and forgotten, I would suppose this would be even more troubling. After all, how many poison gas shells does a dictator need to have in order to lose 500 of them and not even know it? That is a chilling thought, considering he never saw fit to offer proof that he had destroyed his WMD.
So, Iraq still had some amounts (unknown) of WMD. The UN was snoockered. The MSN and Democrats are born-again snookered. Who knows how much WMD is still in Iraq, or has been moved to other “friendly” nations (or was moved there long before the US invasion – years prhaps).
To the anti-anti-islamofascist this is of no consequence.
To the anti-anti-islamofascists, the war was a mistake, we are loosing it, and the best thing we can do to regain our prominent position in the world (now lost) is pull out of Iraq (and cease support of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and of any country whose arab/islamic leaders are friendly to the USA) as quickly as we can (they had a government for 6 months in Iraq now after all). We have learned our lesson that the US cannot and should attempt military action overseas unless it is in no way in the national interest (besides the true purpose of the defense establishment is pork barrel spending at home).
Update: The Adventures of Chester has more info on the WMDs
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