Who links to me?
That is the headlines across the blogs, on talk radio, and on cable news. General Tom Mcinerney is reporting on Fox Hannity and Colmes right now that that the administration has been keeping this low profile to avoid exposing 3 of the 5 members of the UN Security council; Russia, China, and France. McInerney says these weapons will be traced to these countries, and asserts it is well known that Russia helped Saddam move most of his WMD stockpiles out of Iraq before the war.
Captains Quarters is updating as more news develops and has a .pdf of a letter from Central Intelligence Cheif Negreponte declassifying the documentation.
Although I have always beleived that Saddam had WMD before the war, I am definitely in a wait and see mode here. Atrios on the other hand has made up his mind:
Despite my reputation for seething blogospheric rage, I’m actually rarely that angry, but little Ricky lying about what’s going on in Iraq, putting his party and his re-election above country while shitting all over the soldiers that are in harm’s way really pisses me off.
I just know his commenters will go far beyond this.
***update***
didn’t have to wait long. 4th comment in the thread:
and people think I’m crazy, talkin’ about armed revolt. *sigh*
nice.
**update**
Welcome Captain’s Quarters folks 8).
more comments from Atrios’ moonbats:
Woohoo, lets all cry more crocodile tears for the soldiers that we pretend to care about so much! Of course, we all really want to spit on the thugs but that wouldn’t go down well on Main Street USA right now.
Unfortunately, Li’l Ricky has given birth to a Li’l Baby Zombie Lie.
You can expect it to be treated as settled, gospel truth among the Wingnuttosphere from now until eternity.
am so embarrassed this man is our president. jawbone
The ‘lil trolls are so desperate because, deep down in their hearts, they know the Chimp is a total fuckup and they can’t bring themselves to the realization that they backed an utter, abject failure.
So, despite all objective measures that the Iraq war is a total clusterfuck they impugn us to make them feel better about themselves.
Atrios, I think you are totally justified in your thinking. I’m so pissed, I’m going to start drinking. Only way I can get through this days of lies. Never thought my country would come to this.
Rage, rage against the dying throes of the right…
Ricky is way behind in the polls - 34%, so I wonder if Bushco has promised him some position in the maladministration if he would lie about the WMD and carry the Bushco water - same thing for Lie -berman who must know he’s heading for a defeat come August 8th - I wonder if he’s been promised something, too - some last minute deal, perhaps!!
In the meantime, Keith gives a laundry list of why Iraq is a fucking clusterfuck.
Others blogging: Big Dog has a list of Democratic Responses to this news:
- Santorum is in trouble with his electorate so he did this to help his reelection
- George Bush deliberately withheld this information to make the donks look bad. If he did that would be a pretty smart thing to do, especially for a man they all claim is dumber than a box of rocks.
- The US planted them there
- These are old items and don’t count
Too late Big Dog. I think the Atrios folks have already hit all of those.
Flopping Aces has some notable qoutes from Dems including this one:
“Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.†- Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
Gateway Pundit has great roundup and more bad news for Murtha and his pals: Iraqis still say the US invasion and removing Saddam was a good thing and they are better off today.
Linking Posts
Unclassified Document Reveals WMDs Found In Iraq…
A reader alerted me to a recent news conference by Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Peter Hoekstra over a declassified report that details the finding of over 500 munitions and WMD, particularly artillery shells filled with sarin or mustard gas….
Trackback by Blogs For Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere � June 21, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
WMD found in Iraq? (UPDATED)…
AllahPundit is on the trail of this developing story, first discussed by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) in a press conference earlier today earlier today.
CNS (which you should take with a grain of salt) has a write-up of Santo…
Trackback by Sister Toldjah � June 21, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
Believe nothing that is ever reported on Fox News. It’s simply a propaganda machine. It has nothing to do with real, actual news. It is government-run television.
Comment by PoliticalCritic � June 21, 2006 @ 7:13 pm
Does This Change Anything…
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) have gone on the record (video courtesy of Hot Air) today as saying that the US has recovered more than 500 artillery shells containing sarin and mustard gas since 2003. That has quite a few fo…..
Trackback by A Blog For All � June 21, 2006 @ 7:29 pm
Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq…
Via CNS
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically “sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles,” in Iraq.
Reading from unclas…
Trackback by Stop The ACLU � June 21, 2006 @ 7:40 pm
[…] Another interesting factoid is why this was kept secret? (via A Real Ugly American) General Tom Mcinerney is reporting on Fox Hannity and Colmes right now that that the administration has been keeping this low profile to avoid exposing 3 of the 5 members of the UN Security council; Russia, China, and France. McInerney says these weapons will be traced to these countries, and asserts it is well known that Russia helped Saddam move most of his WMD stockpiles out of Iraq before the war. […]
Pingback by Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Didn’t The Democrats Say There Was No WMD? � June 21, 2006 @ 7:45 pm
[…] UPDATE VI: Rick at The Real Ugly American has an update with an explanation of the reason the Bush administration kept this quiet: General Tom Mcinerney is reporting on Fox Hannity and Colmes right now that that the administration has been keeping this low profile to avoid exposing 3 of the 5 members of the UN Security council; Russia, China, and France. McInerney says these weapons will be traced to these countries, and asserts it is well known that Russia helped Saddam move most of his WMD stockpiles out of Iraq before the war. […]
Pingback by SSBG » Blog Archive » Santorum: 500 Chemical-Weapons Shells Found In Iraq � June 21, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
WMD In Iraq…
One day the story of WMD in Iraq will be known, at least partially. For now, the information is coming out in bits and pieces. Bottom line — those who said there was no WMD in Iraq were wrong. (Using……
Trackback by Wizbang � June 21, 2006 @ 10:03 pm
Pay no attention to the WMD behind the curtain……
This week’s version of the best story much of the MSM will never print: over 500 weapons of mass destruction uncovered in Iraq since 2003. Granted,…
Trackback by Random Yak � June 21, 2006 @ 10:28 pm
Report: Hundred’s of WMD’s Found In Iraq….
Contrary to the liberal Mantra that there are no WMD’s in Iraq Fox News is reporting that according to a declassified defense intelligent report that at least 500 munitions have been found containing chemicals such as mustard gas and sarin….
Trackback by Oblogatory Anecdotes � June 21, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
Shiitake Mushroom Cloud!…
Would it be paranoid to think that perhaps there has been a concerted effort by unelected officials to sway public opinion by releasing or withholding information, in a manner that threatens to destroy the political effectiveness of the elected chief…..
Trackback by Thirty Second Thoughts � June 22, 2006 @ 12:16 am
More On Those Chemical Weapons Found In Iraq…
… this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons exist. …
Trackback by Hyscience � June 22, 2006 @ 5:30 am
[…] Comedy? Hoekstra asked for the de classification of the key points himself. And Fox News has what it calls an official adminstration response that denies the WMD here are anything we would have gone to war over. Fox News and the Bush Administration? They are in on the conspiracy too. Against the Bush Administration. If Saddam wasn’t manufacturing WMD, it looks like someone is working very hard to create a WMD scandal where there is none. But maybe that is just spin, the spin of the left. Or something. Or maybe we are saving face for allies on the United Nations Security Council. Or we didn’t want to tip off al Q’aeda to the fact that Saddam had unuseable WMD somewhere in Iraq after we went to war to keep Saddam from sharing useable WMD with al Qaeda that he didn’t share with them. Or something. […]
Pingback by The Heretik » Blog Archive » Comedy � June 22, 2006 @ 7:07 am
WMD Found In Iraq — UPDATED…
UPDATE: The Real Ugly American discusses why Bush has remained silent on WMD discovery:General Tom Mcinerney is reporting on Fox Hannity and Colmes right now that that the administration has been keeping this low profile to avoid exposing 3 of…
Trackback by PartisanTimes.com � June 22, 2006 @ 7:33 am
[…] The Real Ugly American: WMD Found in Iraq […]
Pingback by The Blorg: Links to Terror � June 22, 2006 @ 8:03 am
US Intelligence reports: 500 chemical weapons shells recovered in Iraq…
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that we have discovered both chemical weapons and nuclear materials in Iraq during the past three years. Here is a summary of what we have found so far. And guess what — there’s 500 more!…
Trackback by Mike's Noise � June 22, 2006 @ 8:26 am
Uh…
How dumb are you guys, really?
Anyone who has been following Iraq for the last three years knows that a number of shells have been discovered that included chemical payloads. None have been discovered that date after 1991, and the bulk came from a stockpile that had been buried in the late 1980s along the Iranian border. Virtually all of them have substantially degraded. Indeed, the Pentagon itself has re-iterated this, and nothing in the story cited above contradicts the previous account.
Please don’t embarass yourself by trying to come up with some justification for why the administration would keep this quiet; it kept it quiet because there’s no story. Santorum is rolling it out because he’s in terrible electoral shape and hopes that this will turn things around for him.
Comment by Rob � June 22, 2006 @ 9:36 am
Them WMDs Must Be Here Somewheres ……
By now, you all know that Little Ricky said last night on Fox News that they’d finally found those elusive WMDs, the existence of which was put forward as the first of many reasons we invaded Iraq. Of course, Santorum…
Trackback by AGITPROP: Version 3.0, Featuring Blogenfreude � June 22, 2006 @ 10:35 am
There are no WMDs… in Liberal fantasyland…
Over and over, we keep finding proof that Saddam DID still have weapons of mass destruction (the new declassified fax is here), he DID have ties to al Qaeda, and Bush’s policy in Iraq is winning, not losing. It seems that the Left, for all its claims….
Trackback by reverse_vampyr � June 22, 2006 @ 11:22 am
Hey this gives me an idea that will solve the Iran problem…. We sort of have a problem here but I think we can turn it into a victory in the end as long as we can keep the plan secret.
It isn’t all that well known, but we sold those WMD’s to Iraq link (keep that under your hats). What we could do is call on the ghost of Reagan past and simply sell Iran a bunch of WMD’s and then, eventually attack them for having them! Kill two birds with one stone, as it were. We could sell them our old, out of date stockpile of chem and bio weapons (of which we have more than any nation in the world, perhaps with the exception of Russia), wait a bit and then demand they disarm. When they do not comply we just go over there and glass the joint. This has the added benefits of promoting our free trade ideals while simultaneously giving us an excuse to further our policy of pre-emptive war-making against nations that are filled with Islamofascist evil. And the delicious irony of the whole thing is that the sale of those arms could help fund that very pre-emptive strike! It is a win-win for us and a lose-lose for them!
I really think this could work. Doh?! What am I saying? It already has once.
Comment by conforlife � June 22, 2006 @ 10:48 pm
Yes, I just checked out the “we sold WMD to Saddam” link posted by the alphabet soup liberal up there. Dude, do you believe every unsupported story that you read, just because some liberal wrote it? There is absolutely no viable sources there, its all about what some guy thinks happened. Hey, guess what…We found WMD. PERIOD. Sorry. Go cry to your mama and stop the Reagan-conspiracy project loser.
Oh, by the way, I heard this one about a cat who wears a hat…Its gotta be true…
Comment by Joeyz � June 23, 2006 @ 11:18 am
Joeyz -
I am not sure why you would call me a liberal. Those are fighting words and I demand you take them back! Calling a fellow conservative a liberal is the ultimate insult as I am sure you know.
I do not believe unsupported stories and I only linked to that one for expediency sake. I am hesitant to list more links for fear that evil liberal, Islamofascist loving, hate America first types will follow them but in order to defend the validity of my plan and convince you that what I said above can be accomplished to the greater glory of America I will list a couple more.
link
link
Again please apologize for your words. They were so very hurtful.
Comment by conforlife � June 23, 2006 @ 12:21 pm
Rick Santorum’s phony WMD extravaganza…
*Update: (see below) Pentagon officials confirm farcical nature of WMD claim
*More*: WMDs — the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Right Blogostan is going nuts over Santorum’s grandstanding and disingenuous declaratio…
Trackback by Martini Republic � June 23, 2006 @ 4:53 pm