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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (29986)12/2/2008 3:52:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Yep!

I noticed THESE direct QUOTES from Obama's speech in the newspaper article you posted:

"The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

And this one:

"There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans," he said. "They are plotting to strike again.... If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

So, I suggest that the President-elect should be held accountable for the ACTUAL WORDS that he SPOKE --- and not for any mangled mishmash of a paraphrasing job that some newspaper reporter or his editor might have done.

(As you can see... the first paragraph of you year old article was all paraphase and no quote....)

So possibly this is where Peter's mis-remembering began?

There was no such direct quote (however some editor or reporter somewhere seems to have 're-phrased' things around to suggest something more along the lines of what Peter thinks he is 'remembering Obama saying'.... :-)

Note also: that what Obama suggested his policy would be has now been officially adopted by President Bush, and authorized by his executive order this last Summer... and placed into action more than a DOZEN TIMES thus far already.
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