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Commentary on the Rats in Washington
White House sends press corps al-Maliki praise
for Obama plan
CNN
© July 19, 2008
CRAWFORD, TX (CNN) – An embarrassing slip up for the
White House press office Saturday, when an aide hit
the wrong button and mistakenly sent to the news media
a Reuters article saying Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki backs presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel says, "It was a
mistake. Clips list for staff was supposed to be the
addressee."
The Obama campaign quickly took advantage of the mistake,
forwarding an ABC report detailing the incident to its
press list.
This is not the first time the White House has emailed
in error. But its timing is particularly embarrassing
as the Bush administration's recent agreement with
al-Maliki on a "general time horizon" for withdrawing
U.S. troops from Iraq is being cited by some as resembling
Obama's proposal that U.S. forces should leave within
16 months.
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