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Another McCain-Palin Lie: She Did Not Visit Iraq

By Jeralyn

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.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 13, 2008 (boomark / email).