"End of the combat phase" vs. "End of major combat"

[qb]

At the time of the "Mission Accomplished" speech, I remember Bush saying something more like "this is the end of combat, period" and it was later revised to "major combat" after troops kept dying. Is my memory failing me?

[cheezus]

1. cnn transcript: may have been "sanitized"

Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/01/bush.transcript/index.html

[shaolinmonkey]

2. It's hard to say. They scrub their speech archives...

Not only that, they disallow search engines from indexing their site. That way, Google won't cache the old pages. I find that an appalling slap-in-the face to the public. Check it out for yourself at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

[bhunt70]

4. does this kind of this fall under FOIA?

[lectrobyte]

3. see http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/iraq-combat/

When the White House published the text of and photos from Bush's speech announcing the supposed end of the Iraq attack, the headline read: "President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." But on Tuesday, 19 Aug 2003, the Cursor website noticed that the headline had been changed to read: "President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." The word "major" had been added.

Apparently, with the quagmire resulting in at least one dead US soldier a day--not to mention even more injuries, dead Iraqis, and sabotage--that headline had proved incorrect. Therefore, straight out of 1984, the headline was stealthily altered to make it seem as if that's what it had always said.

On edit: adding some paragraphs from the site, since it seems kind of loaded down today.