Santorum’s WMD Tall Tale

Rick Santorum’s WMD Tall Tale
June 22nd, 2006 @ 12:36 am

Rick Santorum told a tall tale during the debate on the Kerry-Feingold Iraq amendment and in a press conference on Wednesday.

Attempting to draw attention from the real issue of withdrawing our troops from Iraq, Rick Santorum used the Senate debate, for a highly staged act in which he asserted that “several Senate Democrats” had said that “no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq.” Their claim, he said, “proves is untrue,” thanks to a document that opportunely surfaced with the help of his crony pal, Rep. Pete Hoekstra.

“We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons,” Santorum claimed, smug and lying like a rug on the floor. He cited report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, that he had heard about a month or so ago, but “no one had seen before”. Oh, so very convenient, that Ricky pulled that one out of the air just in time for the debate on the Kerry-Feingold amendment, setting a timeline to withdraw from Iraq.


“Since 2003,” Santorum said, “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.”

Oh my! Well, not really…

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i get so angry and disgusted seeing this shit. i'm sorry i missed Kerry and other Dems on the Senate floor. but i'm not sorry i missed these right wing assholes. everytime i hear them speak and spew their crap i get angry and frustrated for the whole day or even longer.

how are they able to just lie and misrepresent like this ?

i just saw another post in lbn where the Chimp says our policy is about 9/11.

it's not even about typical politics and beating the other party anymore. isn't there a point where they have to do the right thing ? how are they able to live with what they do ?

for the Democrats!

people can fall for this stuff. Rove plays them like a violin and they fall for it every time. The Repub talk show had a whole segment on this discovery. Oh, and they even embellished Santorum's request for this information from the State department.Boy, Santorum is some hero, he really pursued this and low and behold, right in the middle of a real debate on Iraq, he pulls this one out of his a**.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

He's got a 'credibility' problem.

No shit. Jump on it, Casey.

"Weapons of Minor Discomfort"

Any talk on the street (or in the local media) about Little Ricky's great "discovery" and his one-way ticket to the top of the Conservative Idiots of the Week page?

His TV ad campaign starts tomorrow. I wonder if it's running on Comedy Central?