According to this, Bush's advisers steered him away from making a complete fool of himself (again). Film at 11! http://t.co/jKmtNC4XYg
— Daniel Larison (@DanielLarison) October 16, 2014
Eli Lake, accredited Wingnut Wurlitzer puke funnel, wrote the article:
… In an interview with The Daily Beast, former Senator Rick Santorum said he and his staff began receiving photographs of discarded Sarin and Mustard shells from U.S. soldiers in 2004. Two years later, when he was up for re-election, Santorum even went public with some of this information in a press conference disclosing a Pentagon report that found 500 chemical weapons shells had been found in Iraq…
But at least in 2005 and 2006 the Bush White House wasn’t interested. “We don’t want to look back,” Santorum recalled Rove as saying (though Santorum stressed he was not quoting verbatim conversations he had more than eight years ago). “I will say that the gist of the comments from the president’s senior people was ‘we don’t want to look back, we want to look forward.’”…
Santorum on Thursday stood by that claim. “There was no active chemical weapons operation in Iraq, that doesn’t mean there were no chemical weapons,” he said. “That was the point we were making. It’s clear from the New York Times article that the military as well as the administration didn’t want to have that conversation because they missed it.”…
… including a special guest appearance by our old friend Pete Hoekstra (see: Hoekstroika):
… In an interview Thursday, Hoekstra declined to name Bush administration officials with whom he spoke. But he said he felt stonewalled during his own investigation in 2005 and 2006 into the issue. “This was an active investigation by the intelligence committee and they chose not to answer our questions truthfully and fully,” Hoekstra said….
Tell me again how “nobody” takes Luzer Rih Sanctorum seriously. I’m just barely old enough to remember when RWNJs used the magical phrase Matsu and Quemoy un-ironically, and I seriously think Santorum is his generation’s Dick Nixon. Sure, he’s a twisted little sociopath that you wouldn’t want as a neighbor (much less an in-law), but there’s a negotiable bloc of American voters who want to be represented by a twisted little sociopath “they can count on” (to punish all the happy, successful, smiling folk who are not like them — and Rick Santorum).
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