Ike Skelton left no doubt today about where he stood on a report -- since knocked down -- that Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction after all.
The Missouri Democrat told colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee, which was hearing testimony about the report, "There are many more important issues that deserve the attention of this committee, including the war in Iraq and the potential launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea. We should not be spending our time rehashing old news about old weapons."
The partly declassified recent intelligence report says about 500 munitions containing degraded chemical weapons had been found since the 2003 invasion. Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, who's in a fight-for-his-political-life re-election campaign in Pennsylvania, had said that it showed that the administration-trumpeted WMDs were real. But weapons experts have said these were old caches from the 1980s.
"They are not the evidence of pre-war assertions made by the adminstration," said Skelton, the committee's ranking Democrat.
Posted by David Goldstein
The day after this story originally appeared on Fox News, you should have heard the morning bozos at KMBZ. That dinosaur Mike Shanin was all over it--why this could help the Bush Admin, this is a big deal, why is the Washington Post putting this in a couple of paragraphs on page 10, etc etc. I get to work, read a few stories from multiple news sites and can clearly see this was a bogus story. KMBZ thinks that Fox News is an actual news organization! If they report it, it must be true!!! What a joke!
Posted by: bsreader | June 30, 2006 at 10:46 AM