Oops...White House Sends Out Pro-Obama Press Release
By Rizzuto

Mon Jul 21, 2008 - I was puzzled when I received a press release on Saturday entitled Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan. What the hell is the White House doing carrying Barack Obama's water? It turned out to be nothing more than a Reuters article rather than the usual press releases I usually receive from that email address. Still, it didn't make sense.

Well, here's the answer, from ABC:
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.
Note to the White House staffers, please remove your head's from your asses. There's an presidential campaign going on if you didn't notice. And to the staffer who sent it out, please prepare your resume.





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