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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Registered: 03-31-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:06am

Oh please! She said she put it on Ebay, she never said she sold it on Ebay and what difference does it make, anyway? (except to the rabid Obama supporters)

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Registered: 03-31-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:07am

So she DID stop the Bridge to Nowhere.

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Registered: 03-31-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:11am

Oh my GOD!

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Registered: 09-30-2007
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:15am
Well if no one cares how she sold it why lie about how it was sold? Just come clean at the beginning. If you haven't actually been to Iraq why say you have? If you were only sitting in an airplane while it was being fueled in Ireland then say so. The problem is that in an attempt to bolster her resume the McCain/Palin campaign added fluff where it wasn't really required - it smacks of a lack of transparency. If they lie about silly unimportant things what else will they or are they lying about?

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:22am
Yes, I have noticed it, and it's too bad and a shame we all have to sift through the muck to know the truth! I am so sick of it. I can't stand Politicians for this very thing that they do! The Republicans have been finding all kinds of half truths about Obama, cherry pick things he has said, only saying "part" of what he has actually said, and they cry foul when we bring anything questionable up about their precious Palin! I'm SICK of it!
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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:25am
And more than Obama don't forget.
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 9:30am
I don't give a flying fig if she sold a plane on e-bay, i do care about other more important lies.
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 10:29am
Yeah, me, too....if only Mr. Doofy Doocy were.....

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 10:31am
As an anonymous commenter on a blog I was reading put it: "and I can see the moon from my kitchen window....doesn't make me a friggin' astronaut, now does it?"

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 10:32am
No, the point is the steady drumbeat of exaggerations and flat-out lies coming from the McCain/Palin camp.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging