Santorum: 500 Chemical-Weapons Shells Found In Iraq (Updated And Bumped)  —  Negroponte letter can be viewed in PDF format here.  —  According to numerous sources but not yet on the wires, Senator Rick Santorum announced a few minutes ago that the US has found 500 chemical-weapons shells in Iraq.

Santorum: Military has found 500 chemical munitions shells in Iraq  —  He's reading from a document about it right now with Pete Hoekstra by his side.  The shells allegedly contained degraded mustard or sarin gas.  He says they believe there are other shells inside the country that haven't been found yet.

UPDATED: TV report: Artillery shells with chemical munitions found in Iraq  —  I heard a report on Fox News about twenty minutes ago (5 PM Central) that Senator Rick Santorum claims coalition investigators in Iraq found chemical weapons — artillery shells filled with a chemical agent (perhaps sarin nerve agent).

"This is critically important information that the world community needs to know" - Senator Santorum  —  Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, joined Congressman Peter Hoekstra, (R-MI-2), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee …

SPEAKERS: U.S. SENATOR RICK SANTORUM (R-PA)  —  U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER HOEKSTRA (R-NY)  —  SANTORUM: Good afternoon.  Senator Rick Santorum.  With me, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Pete Hoekstra.  Today we are here to make public a document, an unclassified version …

Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says  —  (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically "sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles," in Iraq.

Republican Congress members claim that evidence of Saddam's WMD have been identified  —  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 …

CHEMICAL MUNITIONS IN IRAQ  —  ***scroll for updates...FoxNews.com coverage***  —  Emerging buzz seems to be focused on why it took so long to release info about 500 chemical-weapons shells found in Iraq.  Allah's got video of Santorum and chock full of links.  —  Austin Bay predicts conspiracy-mongering.

THE POWER OF THE PURSE STRINGS:  —  Following up on this, why did so many of the people on the "Townhouse" e-mail list follow Kos's orders to stay silent about the Armstrong story and the Kosola allegations?  Part of it, I'm sure, has to do with their political allegiances to Kos.