They’re grasping at straws again. How sad.

The Republican Senate spinmeister dujour, Sen. Rick Santorum of PA, held a press conference yesterday to announce to the world (or at least the portion of the world that actually gives a crap about his rantings), that “hundreds” of WMDs have been found in Iraq. Santorum, referring to rusting shells buried near the Iran border for well over 15 years, insisted, “Clearly, we went to war due to WMD. The contents of these shells are still hazardous potentially lethal, which qualifies them as WMD. Because, even if the shells, themselves, can't be fired, the contents remains hazardous and able to maim and kill - an effective WMD”

Never mind the fact that the defense department has already debunked the claim, stating, “these are not the WMD’s this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had and not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.” Never mind the fact that Santorum was actually taken to task on this by none other than Faux News’ Alan Colmes. Colmes told the Senator “Senator, the Iraq Survey Group — let me go to the Duelfer Report — says that Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle reported this for Fox News quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded.”

Still, Santorum defended his claims, flying in the face of the reality of the situation, which, given that we’re talking about Rick Santorum, should be no surprise to anyone. And the right wing bloggers have been coming to Santorum’s defense. They are absolutely giddy, thinking they have discovered the “holy grail” that will prop up their sagging house of cards. They are so desparate for this to be true that they are unwilling to face the reality that this administration lied to get us into a war of their chosing, to benefit their corporate masters and further their irrational ideology that the United States should be an empire, not a Republic.

In the end, this is just sad. It’s sad that we have a political party that is more interested in “winning” than being right. It’s sad that they are unwilling to let go of their fallacious claims, even in light of undisputable evidence to the contrary. It's sad that there are those willing to defend and support this ridiculous misadventure in Iraq, despite how obviously unjust, illegal and downright wrong it is. But what is most sad is that this is the party that is running our government right now, and running our country into the ground.

I've said it before, I'll say it again... Blindly following those that would lead you to your own destruction doesn't make you righteous, it simply makes you stupid.