Another Misrepresentation

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Another Misrepresentation
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 1:54pm

What about Palin's resume IS true? She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.   She didn't really sell the airplane via Ebay for a profit.  Now....she did NOT enter Iraq.  Did they just create a narrative and hope nobody would check into it?


 


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/13/palin_camp_clarifies_extent_of_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 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.>>>


 

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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:26pm
Well....I consider Cindy McCain to be a de facto part of the McCain campaign, even though she's not a paid operative. I suppose it's a debatable point.

But the wingnut pundits taking up the chorus? Oh, my, yes. Here's FOX's morning show head loon, Steve Doofy Doocy, doing his duty by repeating the meme.

I swear, if that idiot had another brain in his head....it'd be lonely.

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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:27pm
It's considered impolitic to call him on such mistakes. Sure, they're probably lies....but there's always the off chance that they're simply "senior moments," and it's just not polite to draw attention to something like that.

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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:34pm
I don't think so.

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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:55pm
I can see why you are upset about this. It's very damning.
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:58pm

What.....that McCain is a proven serial liar?

Yes, that IS very damning. And gives one a considerable amount of pause - whatever side of the political spectrum one is on.

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Hand of God has sturck the hour
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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 12:40am

Now a revised revision and some extra fact checking:


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


Palin Camp Provides Conflicting Accounts of Iraq Visit

Updated 11:03 p.m.



By Anne E. Kornblut



RENO, Nev. -- Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin spent Saturday scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America in the wake of a report that that trip did not include travel into 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 on July 25, according to the Boston Globe, but did not go further into the country. "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," the Globe's Bryan Bender wrote, adding, later in his story: "ampaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border."


Lieutenant Colonel Dave Osborn, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 207th Infantry of the Alaska National Guard told the Globe she did not venture into Iraq. "You have to have permission to go into a lot of areas, and is where her permissions were," he said.


Late Saturday, a Palin spokeswoman provided yet a third revision to the story, stating that the Alaska governor briefly traveled a quarter of a mile across the border into Iraqi territory at the crossing point.


"Last summer, Governor Palin traveled to Kuwait where she visited Alaskan National Guard troops deployed to the war in Iraq at Camp Arifjen. While she was there she traveled to the K Crossing on the Kuwait-Iraq border, and a quarter mile into Iraq," spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said. "According to the General who traveled with her, while she was there she presided over a re-enlistment ceremony of an Alaskan National Guard soldier.


"En route back to the United States, she traveled to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. While in Germany, Governor Palin visited wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl military hospital. She then returned home."


Palin was accompanied on the trip across the border by Maj. Gen. Michael Sumrall, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard Matters, according to the campaign.


Earlier, the campaign also said she had been to Ireland, but that turned out to have been a refueling stop on the same July trip. McCain aides have expressed indignation at questions about her slim foreign travel.


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 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 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.>>>


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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:18am
I'm speechless.

 

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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 7:44am
Well then I must have foreign policy experience because I teach Korean, Pakistani, Mexican, and Haitian students - right?

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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 7:49am
Yes, I'd say you have a whole lot more foreign policy experience than Palin.

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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:00am

Too funny, the Obama supporters are falling all over themselves trying to find SOMETHING to attack Palin on, and this is all they can come up with.