More WMDs Found in Iraq

Check this out (al-Reuters):

The U.S. military has found more Iraqi weapons in recent months, in addition to the 500 chemical munitions recently reported by the Pentagon, a top defense intelligence official said on Thursday.

Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, did not specify if the newly found weapons were also chemical munitions. But he said he expected more.

"I do not believe we have found all the weapons," he told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, offering few details in an open session that preceded a classified briefing to lawmakers.

Now, liberals will move the goalposts to "stockpiles" of "current" weapons, but that iswn't what the 17 UN resolutions were about as Congressman Weldon points out.

"For those who claim that these weapons are not the weapons of mass destruction that the United States went to war over, I would refer them to 17 United Nations Security Council resolutions that Saddam Hussein violated," Weldon said. "It didn't say pre-'91 chemical weapons. It didn't say post-'91 chemical weapons. It said chemical weapons."

The last two paragraphs are infuriating though:

But Democrats dismissed such arguments and said the weapons were not the "imminent threat" used to justify the war.

"It's very difficult to characterize these as the imminent threat weapons that we were told we were looking for," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, a California Democrat.

Once again, President Bush did NOT say that the threat was imminent. He said that we needed to act BEFORE the threat became imminent. that's the whole point. But as usual, Democrats are too busy lying to the American people for political gain to bother with the facts.

And once again, I'll point out that WMDs were not the sole reason for going to war. If you want to read about that, feel free to check out the "Weapons Storage" section of the sidebar for the Justifying the War piece I wrote a LONG time ago...