Did OFA delete tweets about Romney and Iraq? No, but you might need this trick to find them

We sure do! Attaaaaack Waaaaaaatch!

See a new attack on the President or his record? Use #attackwatch to report it and discuss attacks as they happen.

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) September 13, 2011

Before it evolved into @OFATruthTeam, the Obama campaign’s #AttackWatch account was @TruthTeam2012.

On Thursday night, some Twitter users thought the TruthTeam’s pitiful 2012 tweets about Mitt Romney’s position on Iraq had taken a trip down the memory hole. Those tweets weren’t deleted, but because OFA changed the handle from @TruthTeam2012 to @OFATruthTeam in 2013, a search like “from:OFATruthTeam AND Iraq” yields no results.

Want to mine pre-2013 TruthTeam tweets for hidden gems? Use the old TruthTeam handle to try Twitter searches like these:

from:TruthTeam2012 AND Iraq

from:TruthTeam2012 AND al Qaeda

Now we’re getting somewhere. The tweets you find in those searches will show up with the newer Twitter handle, but were tweeted before the handle was changed. We’ll just leave these tweets right here:

From al-Qaeda to Russia to Iraq, Mitt Romney has not demonstrated that he meets the threshold to be Commander in Chief: http://t.co/5xlidqCe

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) October 22, 2012

.@BarackObama responsibly ended the war in Iraq. Romney called that "tragic." Vote for a president who'll bring our troops home. #VoteObama

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) November 6, 2012

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When you step into the voting booth, remember what Mitt Romney thought of bringing our troops home from Iraq: pic.twitter.com/M5n6nEQu

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) November 5, 2012

Reason No. 27: President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq. Here’s quick list of @BarackObama’s accomplishments: http://t.co/nDV9qp4P

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) November 2, 2012

FACT: Romney said that not keeping 10,000-30,000 troops in Iraq is one of President Obama’s “signature failures.” http://t.co/4Hxlf6hY

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) October 23, 2012

FACT: More than two-thirds of al Qaeda’s leadership has been eliminated since President Obama took office.

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) October 17, 2012

Romney said withdrawing the troops from Iraq was “tragic”: http://t.co/N87svM37 #RomneyNotReady

— OFA TruthTeam (@OFATruthTeam) October 23, 2012

Have at it — see what ridiculous TruthTeam tweets you can find.

Just for fun, here’s an Attaaaaack Waaaaaaatch flashback video from Ezra Dulis: