FROM THE NY DAILY NEWS
HEAD: Surge meets purge
The McCain campaign is poking fun at Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for a report
in today's New York Daily News that he had cleansed
BarackObama.com of past
criticism of the surge strategy in Iraq.
"BARACK OBAMA "REFINING" IRAQ POSITION ON OWN WEBSITE," blares the McCain
release, which helpfully links to the former versions of the site.
The Daily News report by James Gordon Meek says: "Barack Obama's campaign
scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of
the U.S. troop 'surge' in Iraq, the Daily News has learned. The presumed
Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the
surge as a 'problem' that had barely reduced violence. 'The surge is not
working,' Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political
cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for
quelling violence in Anbar Province. .
