Santorum was laughed at on Keith Olbermann's show over his
"weapons of minor discomfort" http://newsbusters.org/node/6050
independent experts and the level-headed staggering in amazement tonight that deteriorated mustard gas cannisters, at least 15 years old and as much as 18 years old, could be pawned off by desperate politicians as some kind of rationale for the deaths of 2500 American Servicemen and women in Iraq. Republican Senator Rick Santorum, down 18 percent in the polls in his own reelection bid in Pennsylvania, 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 nonthreatening.
'We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons,' Santorum told a news conference. Gullible news organizations treated the story with slightly less fervor than they might the Second Coming."
