The Truth Will Out

Last night I watched Hannity & Colmes. Senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan were on, talking about the WMDs found in Iraq. Of course, you won't hear much about the story in the MSM. There wasn't even a mention in my daily paper (the Socialist-Review, as we call it), though there was a little story about Senator Santorum's poll numbers. Ridiculous.

Here's the story, from Fox News (of course):

WASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.

"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.

Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."
[. . .]
"This says weapons have been discovered, more weapons exist and they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.

Hoekstra said the report, completed in April but only declassified now, shows that "there is still a lot about Iraq that we don't fully understand."

You can read the declassified portion of the report here.

After Santorum and Hoekstra were on, Hannity and Colmes had Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney and former UN Weapons Inspector Tim Trevan on. I love Gen. McInerney; he's brilliant and right on. He said that, in his opinion, Russia, China, and France helped Saddam spirit the WMDs out of Iraq, into Syria, in late 2002. He also said the reason President Bush hasn't pushed this point is because Bush doesn't want to publicly state such things about our "allies."

I say too bad. Why the heck hasn't the truth been told? We need tell the world whatever we know. The world needs to know who the real bad guys are---not the US. So what if we ruffle the diplomatic feathers of Russian, China, and France. They haven't been friends to us and they have done wrong, terribly wrong. They need to be condemned, not excused out of silly, misplaced views of "friendship."

We were right to go into Iraq, even if only over these weapons. It was my understanding that Saddam was to have destroyed all of his weapons in order to fulfill the cease fire terms from the Gulf War. He was also supposed to account for their destruction and have PROOF for the UN and the World. He didn't do what he was supposed to and the consequences, according to the cease fire (or whatever it was called) were supposed to be something like invasion and removal of his regime, which we did when much of the world was tooooooo cowardly to do anything. The world believed the same things our CIA said about Saddam and corroborated our evidence. If this was wrong, then the world was wrong, not just the US.

This story deserves to be front page news. Instead, it is hardly covered. The bias of the MSM continues, but the Truth will always out.

The Corner has a lot of coverage, including this link to the Negroponte letter to Hoekstra.

And, so does Michelle Malkin.

Hot Air has video from lat night's Santorum-Hoekstra H&C appearance (and here).

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