A NK Nuke could hit either of them square on the head and it would not knock any sense into their thick Liberal skulls.

This will be of considerable surprise to the troops that found a Binary Sarin shell being used as an IED back in 2004.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120268,00.html

Also, during the Sanctions period inspectors found and destroyed a fair number of Binary warheads for Iraqi SCUD-variants.

Never "mastered"? Maybe not. They certainly used it, though.

Over and over, we keep finding proof that Saddam DID still have weapons of mass destruction (the new declassified fax is here), he DID have ties to al Qaeda, and Bush's policy in Iraq is winning, not losing. It seems that the Left, for all its claims....

First off, the document itself is from the National Guard Intelligence Center (NGIC), not the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). Curiously, it claims to be an overview of chemical munitions recovered in Iraq since May 2004, and the very first key point mentions a total of munitions found since 2003.

Now why is this important? Because the ISG, who was tasked with the search for WMDs in Iraq, finished their investigation in Sept 2004. In their final report they stated, among other things, that "Iraq had no deployable WMD of any kind as of March 2003", and added an in March 2005 that "any remaining chemical munitions in Iraq do not pose a militarily significant threat ... ISG has not found evidence to indicate that Iraq did not destroy its BW weapons or bulk agents". Which contradicts directly your statement that any of this "undermine claims from the anti-war fringe that Iraq had declared and destroyed its stocks of non-conventional weaponry". (Wikipedia)

It is not being claimed that the NGIC report contained new findings, or any information not stated in the ISG report. If we had actually found evidence supporting pre-war intelligence, why wasn't it one of the intelligence agencies reporting it? It seems this document is nothing more than select information from the ISG report, being spun for the political gain of a top GOP congressman.

When U.S. troops discovered a Mig-25 fighter aircraft buried in the Iraqi sand, no one argued that it proved that Iraq’s forces were trained and ready to fight in 2002. (Go here for photo and story.) An Air Force can...

Another point I've seen made is that this announcement was fronted by exactly two people: Hoekstra, the chairman of the House Intel Committee (which makes some sense), and Santorum, who's a big wheel in the GOP conference structure. While hardly conclusive, this should be a red flag to anyone who's watched this administration work over the last few years that this is nothing more than yet another partisan spin attempt. These peopel literally have no morals whatsoever.

"ISG assesses that Iraq and Coalition Forces will
continue to discover small numbers of degraded
chemical weapons, which the former Regime mislaid
or improperly destroyed prior to 1991. ISG believes
the bulk of these weapons were likely abandoned,
forgotten and lost during the Iran-Iraq war because
tens of thousands of CW munitions were forward
deployed along frequently and rapidly shifting battlefronts.
� All but two of the chemical weapons discovered
since OIF were found in southern Iraq where the
majority of CW munitions were used against Iran in
the Iran-Iraq war."

Enough said ? Its possible that the report Santorum mentions refers to a new primed cache, actively used and referred to in documents, that was found after the ISG left. However, the Washington Post today points out

"The lawmakers pointed to an unclassified summary from a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center regarding 500 chemical munitions shells that had been buried near the Iranian border, and then long forgotten, by Iraqi troops during their eight-year war with Iran, which ended in 1988
The U.S. military announced in 2004 in Iraq that several crates of the old shells had been uncovered and that they contained a blister agent that was no longer active. Neither the military nor the White House nor the CIA considered the shells to be evidence of what was alleged by the Bush administration to be a current Iraqi program to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons."

So this looks to be the same as those same shells found in 2004. Mustard gas is a blister agent.

Ask yourself this -- if these were evidence of a real, active cache, why on Earth would the administration leave it to these 2 clowns to publish
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Anjin, why don�t we test the effectiveness of that old WMD on you? I

Not Anjin, but the appropriate answer is --- sure, but first please produce $1Billion per shell (the cost of $500B/500).

See allah's round up, more in am. This is huge. The Document is here. Here is video of Santorum on H/C. More from Cap't Ed, Pattertico, OTB, ABP.

So, we know that Saddam worked with the Taliban, had an operational association with OBL, trained and...

From FoxNews... "We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a......

Then again, Americans are so much smarter than foreigners, so our much older weapons are still better.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic above. I just saw a talking head on TV spouting nonsense about the "old" weapons being unusable after 10 years (1991-2002), and seeing racism that even older American weapons are inherently longer lasting. These weapons are bad news, period.

All that being said, there is still much that is not know about this, and other reports. We've seen too many reports, such as this http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/08/suspected_chemical_weapons_plant_uncovered_in_mosul/

However, this does show that Iraq (Saddam) was lying to the UN Inspectors and defying UN Resolutions - he did not destroy all Chemical Weapons. Perhaps he was so incompetent that he didn't know how many he had, but I wouldn't count on that.

While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible Indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter ...

right?