Santorum is pathetic

News Flash! WMD found in Iraq!

Poor Rick Santorum. He's getting pounded in his re-election attempt and he's brought up this crock and he's getting trashed big-time by almost everyone for this pathetic attempt to elevate these Weapons of Mild Distraction to any level of significance. Apparently they were buried and forgotten in the desert in the 80's. Check out Olbermann's video here.

Samples:

Olberman: Independent experts and the level-headed, staggering in amazement today, that deteriorated mustard gas canisters -- at least fifteen years old and as much as "eighteen" years old -- could be "palmed off" by desperate politicians as some kind of rationale for the deaths of 2500 American servicemen in Iraq.

Republican Senator, Rick Santorum, down 18 percent in the polls in his own re-election bid... "joined" by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan... in pimping part of a two-month old military intelligence report describing the existence of old munitions shells with chemical weapons that are degraded, unusable, and non-threatening....

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Rumsfeld: They are harmful to human beings.

Olbermann: So was any exposure to the **sun** endured by whoever went searching for them.

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And the former chief U-N Weapons Inspector and President Bush's Iraq Survey Group Chief -- David Kay -- telling Countdown that Senator Santorum's comments are -- quote -- wrong as to the facts and exaggerated beyond all reason as to the interpretation of the 'facts'."

He continued, "There is no surprise that very small numbers of chemical canisters from the Iran-Iraq War have been found. "The ISG found them and in my testimony in 2004 I said that I expected that we would continue to find them for a very long time. "These are in very small numbers and are scattered. The nerve agents have long since degraded to the point that they no long pose any substantial threat.

"In most cases the mustard agent has substantially degraded, but will burn you if skin comes in contact with it."