Weldon - a politically expedient Flip-Flop?

Maybe Weldon ... or somebody with some sense who advises him ... figured out how riduculous he looks by the proposed WMD safari to Iraq. Maybe they figured out he would look good in a pith helmet. But today's story in the Delco Times has Weldon eating his own words on the proported trip and his speculations on WMDs. Excerpts:

The former Air Force investigator who told U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon about four potential chemical and biological weapons caches in Iraq is threatening to go public with the site coordinates after Weldon’s office said Friday his information is bogus.

It is the latest development in the fallout between Weldon, the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee who wants a new search for WMD in Iraq, and Dave Gaubatz, a Denton, Texas, man who says he knows where they are.
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Citing Gaubatz’s information, Weldon said last month that the "jury is still out on WMD," which triggered a sharp rebuke from a veterans group backing Weldon’s Democratic opponent, retired Navy Adm. Joseph Sestak. The group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America PAC, called on Weldon to acknowledge that Saddam Hussein did not produce WMD after 1991, something the congressman will not concede.

But Weldon, R-7, of Thornbury, is now distancing himself from Gaubatz.
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"Congressman Weldon stated if we go to Iraq and locate the WMD, it would help with the upcoming elections," Gaubatz writes on his Web site, recounting what he says was a May 4 meeting.

So Weldon, who joined forces with Rick Santorum to declare that the "jury is still out on WMD", then cited a few drums of degraded chemicals as proof that the Iraq War was justified, is now not sure.
Again from the Delco Times, June 30 2006:

"I want to be absolutely clear about what we are talking about here. These 500 chemical munitions are weapons of mass destruction," said Weldon, R-7, of Thornbury. "Some may want to play down the significance of this report or even deny that WMD have been found in Iraq."

Sestak's response:

"Curt Weldon is once again looking backwards at a vote that was in support of the president for a war that was wrong and trying to justify his mistake by holding onto the past," said Sestak, a former defense adviser to Bill Clinton. "Let’s look forward."

Another whacky Weldon episode, and another good reason to support Joe Sestak.