BUSH-TOPIA Miss me yet?" The glow of President George W. Bush on the public radar is intensifying, powered by revelations in recently leaked WikiLeaks documents that chemical weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, thus neutralizing "leftist folklore" about the war in Iraq, says Newsbusters.com analyst Tom Blumer. Also consider that Sarah Palin added Mr. Bush to her talking points in a fundraising speech on Saturday, pairing up "good old Reaganism" and the gutsy "we win and you lose" aspects of Mr. Bush's national security policy.
Lawmakers at odds over weapons report 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.
S. troops sweeping Baghdad have found containers of nitric acid and chlorine, raising concerns that insurgents are expanding their use of chemicals in the war for power in Iraq, military officials said yesterday. The containers were found as part of a larger cache of weapons discovered as U.S. and Iraqi troops cleared house after house in the Sunni-majority Ghazaliyah neighborhood in western Baghdad.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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, 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.
[Iraq] possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons," he told a crowd in Cincinnati four months before the war. "It is seeking nuclear weapons ... If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today-and we do [sic]-does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?" If the U.S. invasion force had found stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in Iraq, we could have claimed victory. Although critics would have remained disgusted with the sleazy origins of this roll-the-dice waii we would have been forced to concede that [Bush] had validated his policy of pre-emption. "The United States has removed a tyrant it helped to install and maintained in power for decades," Bush would have said,...
The President. Very good. Very good, yes. [Laughter] That's impressive. But he's a-you know, he Li a person who's got opinions, and I admire his strong opinions. I like courageous leaders, people who express their opinions. It's-to me, it's hard to have a good meeting with somebody if you're always wondering what their opinion is, and you kind of leave feeling somewhat empty. That's not how you get things done, as far as I'm concerned.
... to help bring stability and democracy to Iraq. We came together to support reform in the broader... to take new action to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Within the recent addition-wi...And I found a common spirit of wanting to help Iraq progress a... in the ensuing months weapons such as chemical or biological weapons would be found in Iraq. I wo...
Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Republican, are to be commended for uncovering the report showing that hundreds of chemical weapons of mass destruction have indeed been found in Iraq ("Chemical arms found in Iraq, report reveals," Nation, Thursday. Anyone thinking these "old" chemical weapons are harmless should remember what was found in the affluent Spring Valley section of the District in 1993 during the excavation for a new sewer line.
WASHINGTON - A new, partially declassified intelligence report provides no new evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion, as President Bush alleged in making the case for war, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday. The report, made public in the midst of a partisan debate in Congress, says that about 500 munitions containing degraded chemical weapons, including mustard gas and sarin nerve agent, have been found in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.
NEW YORK (AP) - Egypt secretly supplied crucial help - both technology and expert manpower - to the chemical weapons program of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, U.S. arms investigators have found. The CIA's Iraq Survey Group says Egyptian specialists helped the Iraqis make "technological leaps" on poison gas at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, when Baghdad used nerve agents to kill thousands of Iranian soldiers and Iranian and Iraqi civilians.
WASHINGTON -- Recent Senate hearings on whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were heartbreaking. Most U.S. citizens who watched or read about the sessions, regardless of their political persuasion, would have to agree. David Kay, the outgoing top weapons inspector, stood by his candid insistence after nine months in Iraq that it is now "highly unlikely" stockpiles of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons will be found in Iraq.
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