Barack Obama purges Web site critique of surge in Iraq

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Barack Obama purges Web site critique of surge in Iraq
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Monday, July 14th 2008, 8:10 PM

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

"The surge is not working," Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama's campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an "improved security situation" paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

It praises G.I.s' "hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice."

Campaign aide Wendy Morigi said Obama is "not softening his criticism of the surge. We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events."

GOP rival John McCain zinged Obama as a flip-flopper. "The major point here is that Sen. Obama refuses to acknowledge that he was wrong," said McCain, adding that Obama "refuses to acknowledge that it [the surge] is succeeding."

jmeek@nydailynews.com



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...barack_obama_purges_web_site_critique_of.html
 
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Kris Gandillon said:
I wonder how much BHO paid to keep his web site out of the Wayback Machine this year?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.barackobama.com

No entries for 2008 at all...imagine that...makes it a little tougher to prove the flip flops I guess.

Kris
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The last entry was at the end of August, 2007. Even though it may take six months for a link to a cached web page to appear on the Wayback Machine, you'd still expect to see entries from late 2007 and possibly January, 2008.

Very strange, indeed. :hmm:
 
Kris Gandillon

Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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OPH:

I initially missed that "Material typically becomes available here 6 months after collection" disclaimer on the wayback machine...

Seems that they do not yet have hardly ANY 2008 stuff out there...NONE on the handful of sites I actually checked.

Oh well....will check back in another month or so and see what his old site said about Iraq.

Kris
 
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