Republicans decide that old pre-1991 munitions, that everybody already knows about, is new evidence that WMD's have suddenly been found in Iraq.

Republican Congress members claimed late today that evidence of weapons of mass destruction hidden by Saddam Hussein had at last been identified in Iraq.

Speaking at a late afternoon press conference, Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. They claimed that 500 chemical weapons shells allegedly containing degraded sarin or mustard gas have been recovered by coalition forces since 2003, and that other filled and unfilled munitions have been found.

Santorum also attacked his "colleagues...on the other side of the aisle" for "repeatedly" claiming that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.

Oh my God! They have found the WMD's! All of us liberals will have to sit down and eat our words and then write a letter of apology to President Bush and his supporters!

Wait. Something smells fishy.

This is what Bush's own weapons inspectors said about these so-called "WMD's":

"While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991," the Iraq Survey Group reported in 2004. "There are no credible Indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a policy ISG attributes to Baghdad’s desire to see sanctions lifted, or rendered ineffectual, or its fear of force against it should WMD be discovered."

This is so pathetic that it just might work on the Republican faithful. They are desperate to find evidence that they were right all along to invade Iraq. They may not be willing to do more then just read the headline and then slam the paper closed while exclaming "AHA, I knew it!"

Poor dumb bastards.