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Psst. Did you hear the news that a U.S. Senator announced that Saddam Hussein did have chemical weapons in violation of UNSCR 687?

No?

What I find significant about the press release by Santorum and his announcement on the Senate floor is that the mainstream media has put up a wall of silence on the issue. The charge alone is big news. The Washington Post buried the story on A-10 and the New York Times takes a cue from the Daily Kos and doesn’t cover it at all.

Sure the weapons are old and they were buried by the border in Iran. Just like the MIG fighter jets that were found buried in the desert. Just like the centrifuge parts in the backyard of a chief scientist.

This may not amount to the WND story that was a basis for going to war but it does further the argument that Saddam Hussein was not playing straight with U.N. inspectors. Saddam played games and the U.S. got blamed as I say.

Oh well, at least we know exactly where the people who run the major newspapers stand on the important issues. They are sitting idly by reading the Daily Kos looking for the next Koran Flushing incident, Bush National Guard Story or Duke lacrosse rape case.

Stream of Consciousness Update

I was thinking about this story while driving to the office this morning. I believe that Senator Santorum overstated the case a bit. However, the importance that he should have emphasized was that Democrats have gone out of their way to downplay the deceptions of Saddam Hussein and the inability of the U.N. Inspectors to accounts for these weapons; if not in 2001 then from 1991 on.

The no WMD argument strikes me as incredibly obtuse when one considers how easy it would have been for Saddam Hussein to bury small stockpiles throughout the country. Why is this possibility such a stretch when he went to the same trouble to bury MIGS?

The world community assessed that Hussein had the capability and was minimally seeking to keep those capabilities at the ready. This area would have been a virtual terrorist shopping mall if the left had their way and sanctions were lifted off Iraq instead of the United States removing Hussein from power. Al Zarqawi knew this and that is why he was in Iraq up to a year before the United States went in.

The media silence on the Santorum story underscores a pattern of deceptive mischaracterizations of Iraq and the threat posed by a murderous dictator who was a friend of terrorists.