500 WMD's Found In Iraq

It looks like we not only found WMD's in Iraq, but we found them quite some time ago and they are just now bothering to announce it. Here's an excerpt from the foxnews.com story:

Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

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"This says weapons have been discovered, more weapons exist and they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.

Granted these weapons were old and do not prove the existence of recent WMD manufacturing, but they do serve to regain some of our credibility on the Iraq issue. I find it odd that the Bush administration wasn't trumpeting this earlier, but perhaps it's more politically expedient to reveal this now when his poll numbers are slowly beginning to recover. If we found these weapons after critics have begun to say that they don't exist, I wonder what else we might eventually uncover over time.