Bush history revision administration: Iraq Ally Lists Were Altered, Study Shows
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Published: November 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — Before invading Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration
mounted a significant diplomatic offensive to rally international
support, and officials at the White House, Pentagon and State
Department went to great lengths to trumpet those nations that joined
what they termed “the coalition of the willing.”
But historians researching those early alliance-building efforts say
they are troubled by what seem to be deletions of and alterations to
the early official lists of nations that supported the war effort. The
lists were posted on the White House Web site.
While administration officials acknowledged that the number of nations
supporting the war changed over time, academic researchers say three
official lists appear to have been changed, yet retained their
original release date, making them appear to be unaltered originals.
Two other White House lists appear to have been taken off the Web
site, according to a study of the documents by Scott L. Althaus and
Kalev H. Leetaru of the Cline Center for Democracy at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There were 45 coalition members on the eve of the Iraq invasion, but
subsequent deletions of the earlier lists and revisions to critical
documents made it seem that there were 49, the researchers found.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/washington/25documents.html?_r=1
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