Here is a real sign of the pending doom for the Republicans this mid-term election:

The chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee accused U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte’s office on Thursday of downplaying the significance of chemical weapons finds in Iraq.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said in a letter to Negroponte that intelligence officials at a June 21 press briefing organized by his office misled journalists about the significance of 500 munitions containing mustard and sarin nerve agents discovered since May 2004.

Intelligence officials at the briefing told journalists the weapons predated the 1991 Gulf War, were too degraded to be used as originally intended and posed no threat to U.S. forces deployed in the region during the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

“I am very disappointed by the inaccurate, incomplete, and occasionally misleading comments made by the briefers,” Hoekstra said in the letter, a copy of which was released by his office.

So let me get this straight (wow this hurts). The administration does fine with intelligence leading up to the war and the Republicans in Congress have never really questioned it. Now they are saying there is intelligence that helps validate the war and bitching that the White House isn’t using it. What is it? Does the administration report on all intelligence properly or are they knit-picking? Shouldn’t the chairman of the Intelligence Committee really wonder about that instead of playing some bullshit election-year game?

To sum it up, the Republicans do not care one bit about faulty intelligence that lead us to war in Iraq. They do not care that we have over 2,500 dead soldiers. They do not care that we have over 20,000 injured soldiers. They do not care that tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed or that the entire Middle East is a boiling pot for a full out civil war. They do not care that this bullshit war lead us into a debt so deep our great-grandchildren will still be paying it off. None of that matters one bit. All they worry about is exaggerating something that has nothing to do with the current war. These are weapons from before 1991. Life means nothing to them – only their pathetic careers. People like Hoekstra need to be sent to Iraq right now and told to fight for his own life.