News: U.S. Intelligence Officials “NO WMD HAVE BEEN FOUND” Lying Republicans and Fox “News” Becoming Irrelevant
From MSNBC.COM:
Officials: U.S. didn’t find WMDs, despite claims
Comments are response to claims by GOP senators
WASHINGTON - Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday they have no evidence that Iraq produced chemical weapons after the 1991 Gulf War, despite recent reports from media outlets and Republican lawmakers.
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan on Wednesday pointed to a newly declassified report that says coalition forces have found 500 munitions in Iraq that contained degraded sarin or mustard nerve agents.
They cited the report in an attempt to counter criticism by Democrats who say the decision to go to war was a mistake.
(more here)
Golly Gee, I’m so surprised that Fox “News” lied. wow. who woulda thunk it. They’ve proven to be so reliable in the past. I feel so let down. What are the odds? The Horror… The Horror…
It’s a bit suspicious that this was rolled out the night before” the debate and vote in the Senate on withdrawal from Iraq “by a senator in a close political race,” said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
Santorum is down 18 points in his Senate re-election contest, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Harman said it was “unfortunate” that people have “not learned the lesson about hyping … and cherry picking” intelligence to suit their own aims.
We can only hope the good people of Pennsylvania will reward this asshole with an even lower poll number.
How sad that a Senator would hype cherry-picked intelligence in order to distract people from his own problems.
“over here! look… look.. over here! Don’t pay attention to the fact I don’t really live in Pennsylvania anymore… (whistle) (whistle) (whistle) over here! lookie lookie! WMD in Iraq! Lookie! (whistle) (whistle) (whistle)….”
What a sad sack
t — On 6-22-2006 at 7:37 pm
you must have missed this part from msnbc, from your ‘anonymous’ official:
“We were able to determine that [the missile] is, in fact, degraded and … is consistent with what we would expect from finding a munition that was dated back to pre-Gulf War,” an intelligence official told NBC. “However, even in the degraded state, our assessment is that they could pose an up-to-lethal hazard if used in attacks against coalition forces.”
this is in an article headlined: Officials: U.S. didn’t find WMDs, despite claims
so what did we find, since they ‘pose an up-to-lethal hazard ‘??? the lengths that you libs go to lie and spin this is funny as hell!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13480264/
Kevin — On 6-25-2006 at 9:16 am
A handgun is an up-to-lethal hazard.