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All of these people are in DC today to speak at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. They will be covering the topic: "24" and America’s Image in Fighting Terrorism: Fact, Fiction, or Does it Matter?

I will be at the event and will be covering it on my new blow TimChapmanBlog.com. Bookmark my new blog if you are so inclined, or if you use RSS grab my feed. I will be transitioning the bulk of my blogging to that space over the next few days. Expect similar Hill coverage on the new blog, as well as a variety of other topics. 

Today House Republicans opposed to the Senate McCain-Kennedy bill announced a set of five principles that immigration reform must adhere to. Those principles are:

Republicans strongly support strengthening enforcement and stiffening penalties for illegal immigrants who break our immigration laws.

Republicans support enforcing the law on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and holding them accountable.

Republicans oppose efforts to reward the behavior of illegal immigrants who have made the choice to break our laws.

Republicans believe the success of our country depends on newcomers obeying the law, assimilating into American society by learning English, and embracing our common identity as Americans.

As it turns out, Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction:

Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

More from the AP:  

"This is an incredibly -- in my mind -- significant finding. The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction, is in fact false," Santorum said.

A Pentagon official who confirmed the findings said that all the weapons were pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for."

The official, who asked not to be identified, said most were 155 millimeter artillery projectiles with mustard gas or sarin of varying degrees of potency.

Granted, these are not nukes and they are not necessarily the weapons we thought they had, but they are WMDs. FOlks saying Saddam had no WMDs are categorically wrong. 

Democrats in Congress are all over the map on the Iraq issue, and it could cost them this November. That is the subject of my column today:

Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Stacie Paxton attacked the President after a recent news conference in which Bush touted positive developments in the war. “The President’s optimism,” she declared, “is no substitute for a real plan for Iraq that will help the American people understand when the mission is successful and completed.”

But don’t ask Democrats for that “real plan.” As noted above, even their highest ranking leaders have admitted that they do not have one nor do they intend to come up with one.