From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:449ab4be{at}w3.nls.net...
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:02:21 -0500, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>
>> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
>> news:449a50ac{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> It's always been a bit disingenuous, but in the face of the truth now
>>> slowly
>>> emerging from Iraq (e.g., the ambassador's memo) it's getting worse.
>>> Today
>>> for instance:
>>>
>>> "Report: 'Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq'..."
>>>
>>> Points to Fox:
>>>
>>> "'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."
>>>
>>> And then, further down the Fox report:
>>>
>>> "Offering the official administration response to FOX
News, a senior
>>> Defense
>>> Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in
>>> useable conditions.
>>>
>>> 'This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991,' the
>>> official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs
this country and
>>> the
>>> rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this
>>> country
>>> went to war.'"
>>>
>>> Will  the American people read beyond the headline?
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Phil Payne
>>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not as much as we should.
>>
>> I wonder what's in the rest of the report, and if a political appointee
>> wrote it or edited it.
>
> The report was written by the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center
> not in DC. Probably not any appointees there.  It isn't the administration
> pushing this report it is mostly a few Congressmen.
>
> George

When I saw Santorum's name I figured it was a bit of desperation for him.
His race isn't going that well.

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