Sean Hannity and Rick Santorum Cling To Discredited "Finding" Of WMD in Iraq

News Hounds by Ellen Elaborates | Jun. 22, 2006 (Opinion)

What a coincidence that one week after Karl Rove urged Republicans not to make excuses for going to war against Iraq and to put critical Democrats on the defensive, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), 18 points behind in his re-election efforts, and representative Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) suddenly came up with some report that 500 chemical weapons have been found in Iraq. Almost the entire hour of Hannity & Colmes last night (6/21/06) was devoted to this ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Rod Amis - Jun 22, 2006 - 11:40 AM PDT
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 by Richard Carlson - Jun. 22, 2006

Finally, we have weapons of mass distruction. Now we can waste the next year deciding whether they were usable. How were these document descovered and declassified remains the biggest mystery, Karl Rove keeps popping into my mind.

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 by Rod Amis - Jun. 22, 2006

This posting is one of many out there today about Senator Santorum's assertion yesterday that WMD had be found in Iraq. As reported elsewhere, the Department of Defense has all but repudiated the assertion, stating that the shells found were a cache from the Iran-Iraq war a decade earlier. This posting focuses more on the Fox News show Hannity and Colmes, that featured Santorum and Hoekstra, who also takes credit for the "amazing news."

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