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Another McCain-Palin Lie: She Did Not Visit Iraq

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 03:35:19 PM EST
Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain (all tags)
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Another John McCain - Sarah Palin lie is that Palin visited Iraq when she took her sole official trip out of the U.S. during her entire career. The Washington Post reports:

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.

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The Boston Globe has more. The claim she traveled to Ireland? It was a refueling stop, not a visit. Mexico and Canada: She was a vacationing tourist.

Sarah Palin did not travel into Iraq. It's just another lie. Gov. Sarah Palin continually distorts her record and John McCain turns her misrepresentations into outright lies.

That's your straight talk express.

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    Another McCain-Palin Lie: She Did Not Visit Iraq | 7 comments (7 topical)

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    yeah (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by connecticut yankee on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 04:43:48 PM EST
    It reminds me of someone padding their resume but no surprise there.   It could be added to a "Dishonest!" ad with McCains face front and center.

    and thank goodness (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by ccpup on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 05:08:56 PM EST
    Obama never padded his resume!

    Oh ... wait.

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    hehe (none / 0) (#4)
    by borisbor on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 06:45:00 PM EST
    good one!

    the "oh...wait" was the killer!

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    you -- or our illustrios media -- (none / 0) (#11)
    by ccpup on Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 12:54:25 PM EST
    may want to talk to outgoing Illinois State Senate Majority Leader Emil Jones about Obama's resume.

    Not that anyone would use the word "padding", but there are more than a few dedicated Reps still smarting from having legislation they had devoted hours, weeks, maybe even years to taken away and used to ... uh, buttress a certain Senate Candidate's thin legislative resume.

    Just sayin'

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    Yeah. That's a bit like Obama claiming to have (none / 0) (#3)
    by VicfromOregon on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 06:00:57 PM EST
    more international experience than the other candidates because he lived abroad briefly in his youth.  All these stretches of reality dishonor the voter, regardless of who is doing it.

    Those who have enough privilege, luck, or money get to travel abroad for any extended period of time, not the average joe or jill.  But, few, few, few get to actually interact with or impact the foreign cultures or political structures they are visiting.  So, the claim of international experience that means anything to me is maybe something like the foreign service, or better yet, giving up your American privilege as you travel and passing yourself off as a Canadian.  I'd be impressed with something like "cultural anthropologist" studying, or even teaching english as a second language somewhere in America.

    None of the candidates have the experience of actually being immersed within a culture. All have varying degrees of "visiting from the outside" as interlopers, or as military occupiers, or as foreign policy collaborators for our national security or financial interests.  That we might argue the worth of these later two may prove interesting.  That would be McCain and Biden.  Neither Obama nor Palin have enough experience to even discuss the value of their "international experience".

    You (none / 0) (#5)
    by borisbor on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 06:50:06 PM EST
    think backpacking in Europe/Other contry as a Canadian is valid experience, but Obama actually living in a different culture for a few years isn't?

    Neither are THAT impressive in terms of presidential standards, but i'm not sure how backpacking as a Canadian (which many do to avoid being known as Americans) is somehow superior.   And also, Obama's mother was an anthropologist, so perhaps she at least passed down some type of emphasis about the importance of multi-culturalism.

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    You got it wrong- she could see Iraq (none / 0) (#7)
    by bobalaska on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 11:11:35 PM EST
    Just like she could see Russia if she ventured out int the middle of the Bering Sea- which she has never done.

    Her foreign policy experience is based upon her thoughts while sitting in her Wasilla living room- thinking about the Russians- ans what she could do to them if Georgia and Ukraine joined NATO.

    It's just part of the "Lie to Noweher" series.

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