Rick Santorum Proves He is an Idiot Once Again

I guess there is a reason that Rick Santorum's democratic rival in the 2006 election is currently leading Santorum by 18% even though Santorum is the third ranking Republican in the Senate.

While talking about WMDs in Iraq, Santorum claims "We now have found stockpiles."

He is referring to 500 munitions shells that contained traces of sarin and mustard gas.

Of course, these "stockpiles" of that Santorum is claiming as vindication of the war in Iraq, are described by David Kay, the former person in charge of the search for WMDs as being less dangerous "than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point." Weapons experts are in complete agreement that these stockpiles are so old and so degraded that they were unusable.

That is because they were built in the 1980's during the Iran-Iraq war. They posed no treat to us now or in the future.

Perhaps Santorum sees himself so far behind in the polls that he is that desperate. Perhaps he really is as nutty as I suspected him to be. Either way, his statement is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. I am sure that the good people of Pennsylvania will have the sense to oust this idiot in the next election.

New intel report reignites Iraq arms fight
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jun 23, 3:33 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn't be used as designed, intelligence officials said Thursday.

Two lawmakers — Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., and House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich. — on Wednesday circulated a one-page summary of a military intelligence report that says coalition forces have recovered about 500 munitions with mustard or sarin agents, and more could be discovered around Iraq. "We now have found stockpiles," Santorum asserted.

But intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitive nature, said the weapons were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and there is no evidence to date of chemical munitions manufactured since then. They said an assessment of the weapons concluded they are so degraded that they couldn't now be used as designed.

They probably would have been intended for chemical attacks during the Iran-Iraq War, said David Kay, who headed the U.S. weapons-hunting team in Iraq from 2003 until early 2004.

He said experts on Iraq's chemical weapons are in "almost 100 percent agreement" that sarin nerve agent produced from the 1980s would no longer be dangerous.

"It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point," Kay said.
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Update: Democrats Criticize Claim on Iraqi Arms