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Re: Palin's foreign policy experience
She's stated she's been to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Canada, and Mexico.
Well, the plane stopped in Ireland for refueling, she only went to the Kuwait/Iraq border & the Alaska National Guard Commander said she really never went INTO Iraq, and she went to Mexico years ago on Vacation!!! WTF?? Now Cancun counts as "foreign Policy experience" WTF is that?? MTV Spring Break is now full of foreiign dignataries?? And her campaign said she has been to Canada once. (Personally I would think she's been there more than once, but that's what the article seems to state.)
Haha, so now it's down to Kuwait & Germany, on the same trip. The others were again more lies from Palin. Oh, but she can see Alaska from her state!!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic … iraq_trip/
Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip
Says she never ventured beyond Kuwait border
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/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)
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.
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.
In her interview with ABC News Thursday night, Palin did not mention Iraq in describing the visit, saying only that she went to Kuwait and Germany to meet with US forces.
According to an itinerary obtained from the Alaska National Guard, the Republican governor visited troops and airmen at a series of bases in Kuwait, including Camp Buehring, Camp Virginia, and Ali Al Salem Air Base.
Her visit to Iraq itself was during a short stop at Khabari Alawazem Crossing on the second day of her two-day trip to the region.
Palin arrived at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, where she held a town meeting with soldiers and reviewed various training programs designed to prepare troops to deploy into Iraq, said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Osborn, commander of the 3d Battalion, 207th Infantry of the Alaska National Guard, who was in charge of the 570 local troops serving in Kuwait and Iraq.
"The whole intent was to check on the Alaskans," Osborn said in a telephone interview yesterday.
On the second day of the trip, he said, Palin was flown to the border crossing, about 100 miles north of Camp Buehring, where she spent the morning meeting with troops and presiding over a ceremony in which an Alaska National Guard soldier extended his enlistment.
But she did not venture into Iraq, Osborn said. "You have to have permission to go into a lot of areas, and [the crossing] is where her permissions were," he said.
Palin did not stay the night in Iraq, and spent the rest of the second day at Camp Virginia and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Osborn said.
Palin also told ABC that she had traveled to Mexico and Canada. Her campaign had previously mentioned a Canada visit, but not a trip to Mexico. Comella said yesterday that Palin had visited Mexico on vacation, and Canada once last year.
"We did not have 100 percent confirmation about the Mexico trip in the initial days we were being asked. It was a personal trip," Comella said.
Palin's campaign did not respond to requests for details about when she traveled to Mexico and where she went, nor did it provide details of her 2007 Canada trip or indicate whether it was for business or pleasure.
Re: Palin's foreign policy experience
If Obama vacations count as foreign policy experience, than so does any vacation from Palin. Once again, a liberal smear smears their own candidate.
I love how you guys cant even run against McCain. Thank God Reagan didn't run against Ferraro in 84 or Bush run against Bensten in 88. We'd all be speaking Russian right now.
She didn't lie about Iraq. Was she on the battlefield in Baghdad? Of course not. Its not a lie though. Liberals wanting something to be a lie and an actual lie are two completely different things.
I wish the liberal wet dream of an Obama vs Palin ticket was the reality. She'd win in a landslide.
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