Darryl Mason at The Orstrahyun seems to have caught Andrew Bolt re-writing history after prematurely declaring history writ.

In early November last year, Murdoch media columnist Andrew Bolt proudly declared that “The War In Iraq Has Been Won”.

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After a six week long holiday, Bolt has returned to declare again that the War In Iraq Is Now Won.

It’s easy, wrote Bolt last Sunday, “to publicly back George Bush now that the war in Iraq is won.”

But a few hours later, Bolt had a sudden and dramatic change of heart about whether the Iraq War has actually been won or not.

Bolt pulled the last Sunday blog post with the big fat “Iraq War Is Now Won” headline and deleted all traces of it from his blog and newspaper archive. However, it’s still listed on the Google News archive. When you click the link, you get nothing.

The next time Bolt referred to Iraq, on Monday, he claimed that Iraq has been secured, and its democracy and thousands of Iraqis lives saved, all thanks to the Bush troop surge. But he didn’t say the war has been won. Instead he says it is, simply, “going well”.

Read Darryl’s full investigation of the mystery disappearance of the ‘W’ word.