All the news that fits (our beliefs) we print

The discovery that Iraq did have some significant quantity of WMDs including quantities of poison gas has not gotten a lot of press. One wonders since the MSM has spent a lot of time saying there were no WMDs why they have not bothered to cover this story. I am not sure how big the find of 500+ WMDs is but it should have been covered. I guess the fair and balanced side of the news is some other definition of fair and balanced.

Part of this is ideological - the news source was a conservative senator (Santorum). But part of it also may be the inherent bureaucracy of government. There is a lot of CYA in the CIA (not my line but a good one).

But this looks like a bigger story than the coverage we have seen so far. Clearly Saddam was an active participant in the terrorist activities around the world. Of course there is a legitimate difference in opinion about what should be done with that information - but we need to have all the facts and for whatever reason this story did not merit enough coverage. Sarin and Mustard gas are not like Nukes but they are WMDs and clearly Saddam's regime was not going to use these for peaceful purposes.