alt.politics.republicans

In News ocikd3d1csk7bto1vnkecnd9ocgbv547vm@ ,, Governor Swill at
@ , typed this:

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:41:19 -0400, "Scruffy McScruffovitch"
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> However, something no one seems to be discussing about them is that
>>> they were from the stockpile which Saddam claimed was unilaterally
>>> destroyed in 1991.
>>
>> Actually, there was no such claim made. Some of it appeared to
>> have been left in an abandoned, undergound depot used during and
>> before the Iraq/iran war. There has never been any proof
>> whatsoever that the Iraqi goverment was still aware of its existence
>> in the years after the war's end.
>
> And the discovery was such a big deal, the announcement wasn't even
> made by the White House. It was left to Rick Santorum to announce
> when he was still some months away from losing his job.
>
> Swill

Yep, and greatly exaggerated by Santorum as well. Santorum's original
"story" included 500 "weapons munitions" with all manner of chemicals and
such.

Of course, later we find out that the number was actually less than 10 that
were actually filled, and those that were filled, the chemicals had degraded
far passed viablity. In other words, they were no longer WMD.

So basically, I stick to my original assertion that there were no WMD found.

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