White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

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.



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/white-house-acc.html

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:rofl: Ooops.

[cliffordu]

1. You. Can't. Make. This. Shit. Up.

[Rex]

And that is what is important to these idiot people; appearances

and politics. NOT protecting the American people. :eyes:

Fucking maggots.

[EFerrari]

2. LOL!

:rofl:

[DS1]

3. Of all the emails they wish they could delete

[EFerrari]

4. I bet some of these guys drive, too.

lol

[LiberalFighter]

30. Don't they know they can stop it from being sent?

Nixon's secretary Rosemary knew to erase those 18 minutes. Or do like Christine did on the Old Christine Show. Unplug the phone line.

[truthisfreedom]

5. "general time horizon." Let me say that again. "general time horizon."

I just love how that rolls right off the tongue and into the wastebasket.

"general time horizon."

Google it with the quotes. Almost every entry in the 14 or so pages of links is a recent news article quoting bushco. Except a couple, which are some kind of economic crap.

It doesn't mean anything.

[frogcycle]

13. yeah, the horizon

is that imaginary line far in the distance that keeps moving away as you approach it. And I guess a 'general" one not only keeps receding but is not even defined in the first place.

But if Maliki falls for this garbage and signs off on the long-term occupation deal they will have accomplished their original aim - permanent bases in the middle of the oil-rich mideast, from which gradually to attack and subjugate the rest of the area.


How many people actually believe they would still be so aggressively pursuing this grand world domination strategery if they thought they were going to give up power in less than a year? Anyone? come on, show of hands? Ah, I thought not.

[ms liberty]

19. Like the vision of an oasis in a desert...

"NO sir, we're not really leaving...it's like a mirage, you know. They just think we're leaving."

[Mr Rabble]

29. I actually do think...

that they know full well they are going to "give up power".
Public office, anyway.

They are all going to the private sector where they can legally reap the benefits of all their hard work while in "state" power.

[coalition_unwilling]

20. And don't forget "aspirational goals" -n/t

[opihimoimoi]

6. In time of war....they would send ....oh....n/m

[Quantess]

7. Wouldn't the news have gotten out eventually, anyway?

It isn't like the Iraqi Prime minister needed to keep it a secret.

[PSPS]

8. Not past our subservient press corpse

The real story here is that this lays bare the sham that our domestic media is. We're being told, essentially, that the domestic press simply "reports" what the white house tells them to. The Malaki statement, while widely reported elsewhere, apparently was only considered safe to print in the US because domestic "news" organizations viewed it as having passed their censors at the white house.

[Quantess]

9. That sounds about right.

There would have been stories about it in the BBC and Al Jazeera, but the US media would neglect to mention it.

[pnorman]

10. There's no doubt one guy there, who WISHES

that there would be a decent unemployment safety net out there. Who knows, he may wise up and vote across the board Democratic come November!

pnorman

[liberalla]

11. OMG what a historic screw up

I LOVE it! :applause:

[bklyncowgirl]

12. Whoopsiedoodle! But was it really a mistake?

I mean could the Bushies be throwing a box of tacks under the wheels of the Straight Talk Express? It seems to me that The Shrubster keeps getting into McCain's way and stepping all over his message. Maybe they don't really want the old warhorse to win.

Let me put it this way. The Republicans know they're fucked. They also know that whoever's going to be the next president is going to have to do some things that are going to be really unpopular.

Straight Talk Johnny goes down in flames in '08. Obama becomes president but times are tough. He not only doesn't get to do the things he wants to do in terms of health care and education but gas prices are still going through the roof and the economy's in the toilet.

Time for Jeb to step up and restore the family name in 2012?

[mwb970]

15. When Obama is prez, the wingnuts will blame him for all of bush's failures.

It's always the same. Everything bad during Reagan was due to Carter. Everything good during Clinton was due to Reagan. Everything bad during the bush Disaster is due to Clinton, or Carter, or FDR.

It's so simple: good things are caused by Republicans, bad things by Democrats. Our political "discourse" has come to sound like one giant op-ed by doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg.

[AlphaCentauri]

27. Amen

those are the symptoms of a 2 party system finance by corporations.

[paparush]

16. You may have it right. Repubs in Congress(if there are any left) stonewall all reforms..

Economy stagnates.

'Murkins memory is as short as their attention span. No one remembers Enron, Bear Sterns, Freddie/Fannie, Halliburton, etc. Repubs run hard on the "Free Market" platform.

Ugh.

[Virginia Dare]

22. That sounds about right.....n/t

[stlsaxman]

14. Proof positive that Raddatz is a WH operative...

how else would she know this was a mistake unless she was on the other list?

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[Vinca]

17. Maybe there's an Obama supporter on the White House staff.

It wouldn't surprise me.

[WillParkinson]

18. Accident...

Riiiiiight.

[liberal N proud]

21. These fuckers don't do anything accidental

There is some calculated move they are preparing for. Democrats and the Obama campaign just need to figure out what before they do it.

[Arctic Dave]

24. I have to agree with you.

My thought is they did this on purpose. I believe this is part of their exit strategy from Iraq to Afghanistan. Now if things go to hell in Iraq(by this I also mean under Iranian influence, not just bloodletting), which for a while I'm sure they will, they can now blame it on Obama and Al-Maliki.
Then the repugs will point to Iraq and say see everything was fine until Obamma wanted us to leave or some other similar storyline.

[fascisthunter]

23. Come on Now... Leaked by Accident?

I'm not sure I buy that.

But hey.... make this into a good thing! DO NOT ALLOW MCinSane in that White House. We've had enough of right wingosim and Republican Presidents to last a few generations.

[Barack_America]

25. Every possibility here is hilarious...

1. That the White House is so incompetent that it can't even get e-mails right.

2. That the White House has given up on McCain and is now trying to sabotage him.

3. That there is an Obama supporter in the White House.

:rofl:

[underpants]

26. 4. That the White House is finally seeing the light and doing what Obama has been saying for months

I mean other than talking to N.Korea and talking to Iran

[MindMatter]

36. #5. That they are planning to take Malaki down

Don't be surprised if they find some "evidence" this week that Malaki has been plotting against the USA. They will probably find some love letter between Malaki and Osama.

But before they take him down, they want to link Obama to him as much as possible so that they can damage Obama in the process. "See, this is the king of scoundrel Senator Obama was willing to negotiate with."

[helderheid]

28. rec 13 of 1300 - that rocks!

[Hulk]

31. "general time horizon" = "enhanced interrogation techniques" = bullshit spin!

They would NEVER accept "withdrawal guidelines", or be involved with "torture", but they'll use their own fabricated vocabulary, and that's just fine.

What a disgusting, corrupt and shit-ass poor administration we are stuck with.

When will this shit stop??

[Ian David]

32. They're intentionally trying to create an impression of incompetence to cover-up....

... for what is actually a long series of deliberate "accidents."

[Frisbee]

35. They have been so incompetaent...

in so many other things, that I can accept that this was simply incompetence too. But if it turned out to be intentional, I can't say I'd be shocked.

[debbierlus]

33. I wonder if it was accidental - or maybe it is be careful who you step on

They have stomped all over so many people, I can only imagine the list of those who would love to get even.

[elocs]

34. Sometimes the paranoia here at DU gets amusing.

Anything bad or negative gets trumped up into some kind of tinfoil conspiracy, but even when the news is good, paranoia again raises its head to suggest that it may be some kind of fiendish Macheavelian plot.
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[muntrv]

37. Bush: "These damn internets are killin' us!"

[MadMaddie]

38. This is no accident....they sent the email on purpose.

Remember always believe the opposite of everything this Administration does!!

Kinda convenient that the accident occcurs while Obama is traveling to Iraq and Afghanstan isn't?

[Tigress DEM]

39. Maybe that's how whistle blowers have to work these days.

Feign ignorance as usual so as not to be suspect when they "get it right" "accidentally".

I mean, the press is getting Reuters story headlines anyway.

This just shows the White House actually reads the news they pretend doesn't exist.



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