Let them try explaining THIS
Via Alas, A Blog
A Likely Story not only caught Bush changing his flight-suit rhetoric:
Bush Revises Views On 'Combat' in Iraq "Actually, major military operations," Bush replied. "Because we still have combat operations going on." Bush added: "It's a different kind of combat mission, but, nevertheless, it's combat, just ask the kids that are over there killing and being shot at."
In his May 1 speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Bush declared: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country."
The headline on the White House site above Bush's May 1 speech is "President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended."Since then, a search of Bush speeches on the White House Web site indicates, the president had not spoken of the guerrilla fighting in Iraq as combat until this interview; he had earlier spoken of the "cessation of combat" in Iraq
he (with some assistance) also caught the White House altering their web pages to insert "major" before every instance of "combat operations"…in real time…and has screen shots to prove it!
Neever mind that
Google will point you to all manner of copies of the press release AND the cached pages from the State Dept.'s web site.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 8/20/2003 12:14:04 AM |
Posted by P6 at August 20, 2003 12:14 AM
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