It's about time the Republicans had some good news to talk about. But before you get too excited, let's have a little objectivity here:

"Iraq had the deadly nerve agent in its stockpile but had declared its arsenal destroyed after the Gulf War.

But David Kay, the former chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, said the discovery does not provide evidence that Saddam was secretly producing weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War, as alleged by the Bush administration to justify the war that removed him from power.

Shell could be leftover from before Gulf War
"I think all of us have known that because of the sheer volume of artillery (containing agents like sarin that were in the Iraqi arsenal prior to the Gulf War) ... that there were likely to be some of these still around Iraq," he told MSNBC TV. "But (the discovery) doesn't speak to the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction were still being produced in Iraq in the mid-1990s."

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