Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/21/dod-disavows-santorum/

Today, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) held a press conference and announced “we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” Santorum and Hoekstra are hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions that were already acknowledged by the White House’s Iraq Survey Group and dismissed.

Fox News’ Jim Angle contacted the Defense Department who quickly disavowed Santorum and Hoekstra’s claims. A Defense Department official told Angle flatly that the munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra are “not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.”

Fox’s Alan Colmes broke the news to Santorum. Watch it:

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How do these people find their way home at night? Nevermind.

[babylonsister]

1. Bwahahahahaha!! nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. What a god damned humiliation for sanatorium.

What a farce.

[Bluebear]

3. And what's with the "we" shit anyhow, Ricky?

Pathetic smarmy self-serving chickenhawk, ya.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Well, that token liberal is good for something after all

Sanatorium says he's going to wait and see what the Administration has to say... because they never lie... right?
:rofl:


thanks for the clip!

[DrDan]

17. even this administration knows better than to agree with Santorum on this

50 shells buried a dozen years ago - with chemicals dissolved - not exactly worth going to war over

The press would have a veritable field-day

[babylonsister]

5. Rec'd to highlight stupidity! nt

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. Front Page Front Page Front Page Front Page Front Page Front Page

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[quinnox]

7. Sanatorium wrong again

Though wouldn't be shocked if next he claims Saddam had nukes and he has the evidence! LOL Say goodbye to the cushy Senate in November

[TommyO]

36. I'm going to do a little dance

when I flip the lever, pull the switch, or more appropriately point to the box that I hope will vote for somebody other than Santorum in November.

[ourbluenation]

8. kickety kick kick

[Erika]

10. Freepers cried tears of relief when the WMD's were found

Sad suckers.

[berni_mccoy]

9. K&R! SANTORUM THE STOOGE!

[LincolnMcGrath]

11. Front Page Front Page

Front Page Front Page

[ContraBass Black]

12. *Inhale*

Ah- hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[magellan]

13. Insane jackasses

So says Jon Stewart of our congress critters. By god, there is still truth on tv!

[alittlelark]

14. I responded to a few of those threads tonight

They seem DESPERATE. They are sending out lowly minions to 'get the word out' and subsequently get trashed. Santorum stands little chance at retaining his seat, don't know about the other guy.


This REEKS of desperation.

[frylock]

15. santorum: well, i'd like to know who that defense department spokesman is.

Hey, numbnuts. His name is Jim Angle, OK. J-I-M-A-N-G-L-E. Open your fucking ears.

[NewJeffCT]

16. Well, you know that DoD

Our Dept. of Defense is just loaded with commies, tree-huggers, feminazis, drug fiends and other latte-sipping, birkenstock-wearing limosine liberals of that ilk.

[Hugin]

26. Yup...

Hobnailed boot wearing, Mao reading, Socialist, Volvo driving, Stalin saluting, Flag burning,
Insubordinate... and so on.

Everyone knows the D.O.D. was infiltrated by commies... Just like Anne "Horse whinny" Coulter
and Joe "Tailgunner :rofl: " McC. said.

[geardaddy]

50. You forgot granola heads.

:)

[louis-t]

45. I thought Jim Angle was the Faux news guy.

Santorum, you moron.

[rodeodance]

18. while santorum gets off on this --9 US troops were killed yesterday.

[Imalittleteapot]

19. Santorum will wait to hear what the WH formally says.

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

[The Wizard]

20. More proof

that thought disorders and loose associations are prerequisites to be in the Republican Party. pRick knows his time in the Senate is ending, and maybe this is just an attempt, albeit feeble, at getting out the base. And we all know there's nothing more base than a Santorum (mixture of fecal matter and semen) supporter. January 1, 2007 pRick can retire in Virginia where he currently resides, or he can load his family on a rocket ship to Remulak.:crazy:

[Felix Mala]

21. DumbReport says "Hundreds of Weapons Found" and it should say

"Hundreds of Unusable Weapons Found."

[Hugin]

25. or maybe... "Hundreds of weapons Re-Found just for Rick".

[JudyM]

48. Terrific graphic, Feles Mala! LOL n/t

[Felix Mala]

52. Everyone may steal it from me if they wish... I'd like to see it in

bumper sticker form...

If Rove keeps stoking the Bush job poll numbers with "fool's coal" like this story, the Prez might win back a few of the 210 million Americans who no longer trust him.

[LynneSin]

22. Bob Casey doesn't need to spend anymore money on thinking up ads

He should just use this right here - it shows just how horribly out of touch Rick Santorum is with reality.

I mean geez, even Fox News dissed him on it

[Zech Marquis]

23. I'm trying to come up with a header here

if this slimeball would lie about where his current address is to beat the tax man, he's naturally lie about fidning 100s of wmds in Iraq :eyes:

[ElboRuum]

24. Couldn't happen to a nicer regressionist a**hole. n/t

[yomarisschmidt]

27. Santorum now trails Casey by 18%

hmm. I wonder if its a coincidence that the same day his approval slipped he came up with this crap.

[newyawker99]

32. Hi yomarisschmidt!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Trekologer]

28. Little Ricky looks like he's going to cry.

Then tries to talk his way out of it.

[Frustratedlady]

29. That's a carryover from childhood.

Can't you just picture him crying his way out of trouble as a 5-year-old?

HOW did this cabal screw up our country so badly? I swear there isn't a functioning brain in the bunch. The world must be ROTFL at some of the stupid comments that are spewing out of these people.

[IndependentVoice]

33. then its really sad because

if they are that stupid, how stupid are the people that supported and voted for these people, its kinda scary that our society can be so complacent.

[librechik]

30. everybody send this to Foxnews and demand Hannity recant

after all, are they a real news organization or a whitewashing machine?

[ptolle]

40. rhetorical

librechik- this is a rhetorical question, right? Sorry I have to ask but there's just so much stuff these days that surpasses normal standards for irony. In any event your suggestion is great, but I'd presume that you'd not expect any effect even if the whole of DU acting in total coordination e-mailed them at the same time.I'm presuming also that you've your own opinion as to the answer to your question but if there's any doubt in anyone's mind check the chyrons captions that front the clip- Fux news ALERT etc. They truly have absolutely zero respect for the intelligence of the American public which I suspect arises from so many years of pandering and operating down to the level of their typical viewer.

[librechik]

43. I know--but they did make a correction once--a couple of weeks ago

when it was sure not to hurt them.

:rotfl:

[IndependentVoice]

31. Ouch, but still he deserved it

:nopity:

[lonestarnot]

34. Nutfuckery!

[MoonRiver]

35. Does Santorum have a political death wish?

Or maybe he felt he has nothing to lose. Or maybe he's just an idiot tool. :wtf:

[IndependentVoice]

41. my money is on all of the above

[JudyM]

47. Ditto. Welcome to DU, IndependentVoice!

[gatorboy]

37. Heh! K & R!

:kick:

[Harry Monroe]

38. Doesn't matter if this information was already discredited...

....what is important for the Republicans is to keep the false link in the news and therefore in the back of the gullible minds of the JoeSixpacks out there. True or not doesn't matter. The lies and distortions of this Administration and the Republican Party are truly astounding!! The compliant mainstream media (liberal media?? HA don't make me laugh!!)is aiding and abetting these falsehoods by not digging deeper and exposing these lies for what they are!! It's enough to make me wanna puke!!!:puke: :banghead:

[IndependentVoice]

42. I'm sure

sooner or later the media will grow a spine again, it is a slow process though and old habits *cough amber alerts* die hard, even though it is a disgrace right now, one could argue that it is starting to regain SOME level of respectability.

[Hubert Flottz]

39. God tells them to lie like that!

I think Rick has been to a Watergate poker game again and is still drunk or stoned.

[Divernan]

44. Ricky whining on KDKA this am "Post Gazette didn't cover my WMD story"

i.e., didn't send a reporter to his press conference. He then went on to call the editorial board of the Post Gazette "all idiots". Safe to say he's written the PG off. They really tore into him on the bogus Penn Hills tiny little "official residence" and his ripoff of the local school district taxpayers for his Virginia based kids' on-line school costs.

[louis-t]

46. New truth for neocons: Cher protects soldiers more than Rummy.

Or *.

[Mugsy]

49. Interesting aknowledgement from Defense Department!

The DoD's concession that we did indeed go to war over "WMD's" struck me most. Not "to liberate the Iraqi's", not "To remove an ally of al-Qaeda", but "over WMD's".
:woohoo:

[IndependentVoice]

51. Intersting...

Man I love self-incrimination. :woohoo:

[VaYallaDawg]

53. And don't forget the favorite line of the bushies ---

"Don't you agree the world is a better place without Saddam."

Bwahahahaha

[annabanana]

54. And yet the Wurlitzer is still cranking out the tune!

Why, if the face of this disavowing, is the noise machine insisting on repeating the lies?

[kitkat65]

55. Gee, do the WMDs say "Made in the USA" on them? n/t

[progressoid]

56. I saw that douche on Fox. - I'm sure they'll be right on top of this....

NOT!!!

[Clyde39]

57. Who put Santorum up to this?

A press conference.........just the two of them for something so (allegedly) important? You'd think Fox News might have held off on such fake "news".