it's back to the future:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...vows-santorum/
Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims
BY JUDD LEGUM POSTED ON JUNE 21, 2006 AT 10:42 PM UPDATED: JUNE 22, 2006 AT 6:53 AM
Today, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) held a press conference and announced “we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” Santorum and Hoekstra are hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions that were already acknowledged by the White House’s Iraq Survey Group and dismissed.
Fox News’ Jim Angle contacted the Defense Department who quickly disavowed Santorum and Hoekstra’s claims. A Defense Department official told Angle flatly that the munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra are “not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.”