The announcement by Santorum also pointed out something else of keen importance. The declassified version of the report indicates that there are many more weapons likely to be found even yet in Iraq.
There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for waiting on the announcements of such, and even delaying the announcement weeks to months after the discovery. U.S. soldiers could be made vulnerable if the location of such stockpiles were made known to the jihadists who are composed of mostly foreign fighters in Iraq. Telegraphing in advance the knowledge of such weapon's existence might entice two sets of weapons' seekers to emerge.
It is also worth noting that none of the leftists in the United States Congress have apologized for lying to the American people. They have not offered apologies to President Bush, and to add even more pain to their misery the Senate rejected John Kerry's, "pull out of Iraq now" bill by a vote of 86 to 13.
For a season or two the left has had what they thought was the smoking gun for the President and his party - to say he lied to the American people and weapons of mass destruction was what he lied about. What they would never address is how so many foreign intelligence agencies also concluded the same thing as the U.S. based on the best available evidence at the time. Heck, even John Kerry looked at the evidence and concluded that Saddam had weapons and was a threat. Turns out - all those intel agencies, our own CIA information, the administration, and most importantly our fighting men and women are now all justified. The U.S. was right all along.
That smoking gun has now been turned on themselves. For having told the American people their own form of a lie - that WMDs did not exist, and to do so - so many times they deserve every ounce of scrutiny and request for public apology that they receive.
It is also a disgrace that the media has done no more than yawn at the story or give meager back page mention of it when they were willing to tout long and loud that the President lied - with much less evidence that he did. Their callousness to the truth, their unwillingness to correct their positions or to report the facts and their willingness to slander a commander in chief - in the midst of war time are deserving of subscribers canceling their subscriptions in mass numbers. For if one can not depend upon the information they read - then they should get their information from more reliable sources.
As an American, we should stand proud today that even though left ran the spin for a while, the truth is coming out.
And as scripture says, the TRUTH will set you free...