White House Alters Webpages About Iraq Combat
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>>> 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. We were able to recover numerous instances of the unaltered headline. At the top of the page is the original headline, as it has been preserved on the Website of Scott Long, who collects photos of politicians on aircraft carriers. Under that, you'll find the headline as it is now. More examples are below.
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The State Department often mirrors White House press releases. In this case, they still have the original version of Bush's speech. |
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This screenshot comes from the Website of the Republican National Committee. Their introduction to the video of Bush's speech contains the original headline. |
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The final piece of major evidence is this screenshot from a Google search. It shows that the White House Website did indeed contain the original headline. Funny thing is, if you click on "Cached" to see Google's saved version of the page, it says the page cannot be found. |
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Further mirrors of the White House-released speech with the original headline: CACI (defense contractor) | MemHole mirror |
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