I just saw this piece over at
Crooks and Liars. The good part is a couple of minutes in when Alan Colmes of all people lays the smackdown on Sentorum and Hoekstra. Check out the video for yourself and go below the flip for transcript and commentary...
Colmes: It's Alan Colmes. Senator, the Iraq Survey Group, uhh, let me go to the Duelfer Report-says Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded.
And the official went on to say that they are-these are not the WMD's this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had-and not the WMD's for which this country went to war. So the chest beating that the Republicans are doing tonight thinking this is a justification is not confirmed by the defense department.
Santorum answered with some wishy-washy BS about waiting for DOD and Administration confirmation of Colmes' smackdown. This is right after Hannity, Santorum, and Hoekstra had a three-way GOP orgy over this HUGE revelation. In the middle of Colmes speech you can see Santorum and Hoekstra crap themselves. It was awesome. Alan Colmes just went up three spots on my Respect-O-Meter.
UPDATE: Juan Cole has a great breakdown of the alleged WMD story including the Alan Colmes quote.