Ethics

This Kind of Thing Makes Me Nuts

By Ed Brayton

The message from the right, as usual: never, every speak the truth about what your government is doing in the name of "the troops." And it's Palin shoveling out this crap:

"[Obama] said, too, that our troops in Afghanistan are 'air raiding villages and killing civilians,'" Palin said, mischaracterizing a 2007 remark by Obama. "I hope Americans know that is not what our brave men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is fighting terrorism and protecting us and protecting our freedom."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).