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kstewart33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 02:14 PM
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Hilarious beyond words (another Bush screwup that helps Obama).
White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan/ABC News
July 19, 2008 1:29 PM

The White House this afternoon accidentally sent to its extensive distribution list a Reuters story headlined "Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan - magazine."

The story relayed how Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the German magazine Der Spiegel that "he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months … ‘U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,'" the prime minister said.

The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.

The misfire comes at an odd time for Bush foreign policy, at a time when Obama's campaign alleges the president is moving closer toward Obama's recommendations about international relations -- sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, discussing a "general time horizon" for U.S. troop withdrawal and launching talks with Iran.




http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/white-house-acc.html
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 02:17 PM
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1. And Obama and his campaign thank them. That's pretty lame of them,
but I can imagine the surprise when the e-mail was rec'd-from the wh. Ha!
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 02:18 PM
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2. give that employee a raise
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DerekJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 02:19 PM
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3. I wonder if that White House employee is voting Obama..
:evilgrin:
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 03:27 PM
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4. "mistake"? Me thinks maybe not.
:evilgrin:
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 03:39 PM
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5. Ga.
Them Bush people have me paranoid.
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