These things have been old news for at least a year. They aren't really news in the context of wmd's as justification for invasion. It's more just rick santorum trying to get attention for something other than frothy mixes of lube and shit.
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A Pentagon official who confirmed the findings said that all the weapons were pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for."
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They certainly aren't the wmds the admin spoke of as justification for going to war. At least i didn't hear the speech where the pres cited expired and functionally useless munitions. Probably because there was no such speech because the president, even with his aww-shucks downhominess, couldn't make expired weapons seem like much of a threat. What the admin did often cite were ongoing programs designed to produce new and presumably usable wmds. A bunch of ex-wmds were not what they were talking about by any stretch.
If these were actually the wmd's that were so important as a justification for invading iraq, don't you think the admin would have mentioned them in the 2-3 years since the weapons were found? Or do you think they'd save the news with the aim of using it to boost the reelection prospects of two struggling-in-the-polls republican senators?