Palin Aides Backtrack On Saying She 'Visited' Iraq

[Joanne98]

This is just the latest example where the McCain-Palin campaign has been caught lying again. There's an increasingly disturbing pattern emerging from the McCain-Palin campaign where lying profusely is being considered accepted practice.

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."

Let's follow this storyline. Initially, they tell the American people that Sarah Palin did visit Iraq in 2007. Of course, it was an aggressive attempt by the McCain-Palin campaign to bolster her national security credentials and squelch criticism about her lack of experience and overseas travel. But now we learn that the McCain-Palin campaign actually lied. Palin never visited Iraq in 2007. The closest she ever came to Iraq last year was visiting a military outpost "on the other side of the Kuwait-Iraq border".

http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Chris%20Brown/blog/&blogId=3880

[PermanentRevolution]

1. And the visit to Ireland was a refueling stop for the plane...

[electron_blue]

2. Wow. She reminds me of me in my youth when I had a layover in NYC and it felt

like I had actually *been* to NYC. I think I even told someone that yes, I had been to NYC, w/o mentioning it was a layover. LOL. At least I was a young punk then. She is claiming this now in her 40's, supposedly ready to rule the world, eh? This, my friends, is someone who deceives even herself.

[gateley]

3. Is there NOTHING this woman will not embellish? Or lie about? nt

[CarbonDate]

4. Only people who've never really traveled....

...count layovers as having "been" somewhere.

[CrispyQ]

5. At this rate, Palin is going to rack up more lies than boosh.

:wow:

[Merry Pason]

6. Hey! She saw Iraq over the Kuwait border

If she's an expert on Russian foreign policy from looking over the Bering Straight to see Russia, then ergo it follows that she's an expert on Iraq foreign policy from looking over the Kuwait border to Iraq. Duh, dude! We must all be experts on lunar foreign policy............

[4_Legs_Good]

7. OMG, these people are shameless

This is hilarious!

Geesh

David