WAPO: Report: Palin Did Not Visit Iraq

Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin are scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America -- which, according to a new report, did not include Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign had initially claimed.

Palin made an official visit to see Alaskan troops in Kuwait in July of 2007. There, she made a stop at a border crossing with Iraq, but did not actually visit the country, according to a new report in the Boston Globe.

Earlier, McCain aides had said that Palin visited Iraq, and expressed indignation at questions about her slim foreign travel.

The campaign also said she had been to Ireland; that turned out to have been a refueling stop.

In her ABC interview, Palin said she had also been to Canada and to Mexico, where her advisers said she went on vacation.

Obama aides described the new revisions to Palin's account as part of a growing pattern of deception. "The McCain campaign said Governor Palin opposed the Bridge to Nowhere, but now we know she supported it. They said she didn't seek earmarks, but now we know she hired a lobbyist to get millions in pork for her town and her state. They said she visited Iraq, but today we learned that she only stopped at the border. Americans are starting to wonder, is there anything the McCain campaign isn't lying about?" Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor asked in a statement e-mailed to reporters.

A short time later, the Obama campaign circulated a new Bloomberg story that questions whether the McCain campaign has been sending out false crowd estimates.

On two occasions since Palin joined the ticket, McCain aides have cited law enforcement sources in claiming enormous crowds -- but law enforcement officials interviewed by Bloomberg denied having given such estimates.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/report_palin_did_not_visit_ira.html

from the border crossing.

Just like she could see Russia if she went to whichever of those Diomede Islands belongs to us.

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Centauri, Andromeda--wow, is that lady well-travelled!

She may never have seen Uranus, but I bet she's seen Somebody's anus.

That is it plain and simple.

Can I be ambassador to Japan, please?

Can I be ambassador to the Chezch Republic? I mean, Czechoslovakia?

Palin's friend gets the job, not you.

I have lost count.

Obama's campaign could reinforce the "4 more years of the same" theme using the "My Mom went to the border of Iraq and all I got was this dumb T-shirt" controversy.

To wit: When I was in Iraq in 2003-2004, one of the things that drove us batshit (we were doing reconstruction work) was that our opposite numbers in the CPA were woefully underqualified for their positions. They were largely young, with no Middle East experience, with educational backgrounds having nothing to do with either civil infrastructure work *or* contracts, and less cognizant of the US government project management requirements than we were. In fact, we spent a lot of time training these guys on their own systems. And of course, they were only deployed for short periods, so new, equally unqualified people would come in every few months and have to be trained all over again.

So . . . "McCain's hitched his wagon to yet *another* 'Iraq Expert' who doesn't know what she's doing . . . It didn't work before and it won't work this time."

(I'm sure Obama's copywriters could do better with this.)

gives someone the chutzpah, to go on tv, in front of millions of people, and tell lies that can be so easily dispelled?

Is she a sociopathic liar - I am beginning to think she really is. She's told these whoppers so often even she believes them.

:shrug: Why would she? She didnt even give Iraq much thought. Why go there?

Of course she hasnt been to Iraq. She's the governor of Alaska for chissakes.

bad, bad Sarah.

On edit; classic case of smoke and mirrors on the crowd thing...

This is getting to be quite the fiasco for this bimbo.



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Says she never ventured beyond Kuwait border

By Bryan Bender
Globe Staff / September 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate's campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.


Private Christopher T. Grammer/Department of Defense via Associated Press/fileLieutenant Colonel David Cogdell helped Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska test out training equipment at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on July 24, 2007. (Private Christopher T. Grammer/Department of Defense via Associated Press/file)

Following her selection last month as John McCain's running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard. During that trip she was said to have visited a "military outpost" inside Iraq. The campaign has since repeated that Palin's foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone.

But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as "K-Crossing," on July 25, 2007.

Asked to clarify where she traveled in Iraq, Palin's spokeswoman, Maria Comella, confirmed that "She visited a military outpost on the other side of the Kuwait-Iraq border."

It was the second such clarification in as many weeks of the itinerary of what Palin has called "the trip of a lifetime." Earlier, the campaign acknowledged that Palin made only a refueling stop in Ireland.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/13/palin_camp_clarifies_extent_of_iraq_trip/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/palin.iraq/?iref=hpmostpop

How can they pile two separate lies onto her one trip overseas?

Send this to KO, send this to all the media, send this to Huffington post. Please send this to HuffPost or DailyKos. Please the bloggers will confirm this quick. Oh and can someone please send this to factcheck.org.

This woman is way too much.

The coverage of Hillary's sniper fire comment did damage to her campaign, but this is an outright distortion.

"Obama aides described the new revisions to Palin's account as part of a growing pattern of deception."


Obama and team are building a case. Another article today said Biden is to start taking the lead role in attacking these lies and attacking McCain's history of issues since he has worked with him so long.. The article also said McCain is in for an October surpise with Biden and Obama hitting back.

Woo Hooooooo.. Sounds good to me..

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