Speaking of WMD…

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Sen. Rick Santorum says we found them.

The Department of Defense responds to Santorum’s evidence: "You’re wrong, Rick, and everybody who has looked at your ‘evidence’ in the past thinks it’s horseshit." (rough paraphrase)

Actually, it appears that the "found" WMD was 500 shells of degraded mustard or sarin nerve agents.  That’s right: they were degraded and ineffective. Had they been deployed by Saddam, they wouldn’t have worked. 

Furthermore, it looks like the shells were not even manufactured by Saddam post-Gulf War, but were merely left over from sometime in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s.  As such, they hardly provide support for the war rationalization that Saddam was continuing a program of manufacturing WMD.

Tbogg snarks:

It’s official: Rick Santorum is in his last throes…