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DOD to Palin Do Not Divulge Trip to Iraq
The State of Alaska ^ | September 16, 2008 | SBD

Posted on 09/15/2008 11:26:08 PM PDT by SBD1

GOVERNOR HOLDS PRESS AVAILABILITY WHILE VISITING TROOPS IN KUWAIT

July 24, 2007 Tuesday

JUNEAU, Alaska

The following information was released by the office of the governor of Alaska:

Governor Sarah Palin continues her trip to Kuwait where she is meeting with Alaska soldiers. The Governor this morning shared details of her trip with Alaska-based reporters. For those reporters who were unable to participate, audio and photos may be accessed at the following links.

Audio of Governor Palin's press conference on her visit to Kuwait: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/audio/Gov_Kuwait_2007.mp3 (8.6mb)

Photos of Governor Palin's visit to Alaska soldiers in Kuwait (credit to Giancarlo Casem):

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/photos/GovP_KuwaitVisit01.JPG (3.4mb)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin exits a jet at the Life Support Area, Kuwait with Maj. Gen. Michael Sumrall, assistant to the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard matters. Palin visited the soldiers of 3rd Battalion 297th Infantry Regiment Alaska National Guard to learn about their mission in Kuwait.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/photos/GovP_KuwaitVisit02.JPG (3.4mb)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin talks to Nome, Alaska, native 1st Sgt. Dewey Green. Palin visited the soldiers of 3rd Battalion 297th Infantry Regiment Alaska National Guard to learn about their mission in Kuwait.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/photos/GovP_KuwaitVisit03.JPG (4.7mb)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin visits soldiers of 3rd Battalion 297th Infantry Regiment Alaska National Guard at the Life Support Area, Kuwait Dining Facility July 24. Palin visited the soldiers to learn about their mission in Kuwait.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; dnctalkingpoints; iraq; kuwait; mccainpalin; nationalguard; palin; palininiraq; revisionisthistory; troops
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To: ruschpa

The US military says she crossed the border briefly, and presided over the reenlistment of an Alaska National Guard member. So yes, she did.


21 posted on 09/16/2008 3:42:04 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: RatsDawg
"I thought it was already known that she went a quarter mile into Iraq? "

It is. It was known yesterday. Then again, the people questioning the truth today weren't on any of yesterdays threads.

22 posted on 09/16/2008 3:43:36 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: ruschpa
There's a difference between stepping across the border and visiting, as in spending time, in a country.

I've stepped across the border into North Korea but I would never say "I've been to North Korea".

I think that if Palin did make a quick detour into Iraq but declines to post that country on her punch list then it enhances her image of honesty.

23 posted on 09/16/2008 3:57:21 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: BurbankKarl

That is still one of my all-time favorite responses.


24 posted on 09/16/2008 4:26:24 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: SBD1
Hold on before you make an embarrasing assertion. I'm pretty sure I know what the audio is referencing and it's not her travelling to Iraq. As a VIP Gov. Palin would qualify for dedicated helicopter transportation, particularly since she was visiting her state's NG troops deployed in Kuwait. More than likely she was flying from Logistics Support Area (LSA) Kuwait to Camp Buehring, Kuwait. If she was going into Iraq it would not have been by helicopter. And "the DoD" would not permit her to tell the media where she's going as that is the regulation for travel by military transport in theater.
25 posted on 09/16/2008 4:40:48 AM PDT by Justa (The media lied while Americans died.)
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To: SBD1

They would not divulge time or destination of a flight plan for anyone. Otherwise, that aircraft can be anticipated and targeted. That seems pretty basic.


26 posted on 09/16/2008 4:51:11 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Opposing -> ZerObama: zero executive, military, or international experience)
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To: SBD1

“The areas surrounding Camp Buehring, known as the Udairi Range Complex, are largely uninhabited, but for a few nomadic Bedouin tribes raising camels, goats, and sheep.”

Ah, an Al Qaeda and Taliban sex farm.


27 posted on 09/16/2008 5:52:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: 21twelve

I agree with you. Seems like a case of a reporter at the Boston Globe quoting an unnamed source on the Palin staff (as the liberal media is so good at) saying she’d gone into Iraq and then the reporter refuting that statement. Has any aide stated that they were the one who “mistated”?


28 posted on 09/16/2008 6:01:44 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: Jackson57

Palin doesn’t count “crossing the border” as visiting Iraq, probably because if she tried, the media would call her a liar for saying it.

Her campaign aides (I’m guessing some of these are people McCain gave her that don’t know her very well), looked over every place she had ever been.

So at one point that included Iraq. Iraq apparently was a visit about a quarter of a mile over the border.

These statements are TRUE — she has been in Iraq. But, as some people wouldn’t count this because it was a brief border crossing, Palin did NOT include Iraq in HER list.

The media acts as if the “Sarah Palin Campaign Staff” have been with her for months and should get every detail of her life right.

And I don’t know if the particular person they talked to was with her or not. But since she wasn’t a presidential candidate, she didn’t have to run for Governor again for over two years, and she was just picked as a VP nominee about 3 weeks ago, I’m guessing that most of her campaign staff are veterans of presidential campaigning from McCain’s organization.

Which means they would NOT know details, and would simply work off of reports and vetting information — vetting which would have revealed all of her travels, including Ireland and Iraq.


29 posted on 09/16/2008 6:23:43 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

You’re absolutely right. First, Gov. Palin didn’t include it on her list of places she’d been because the DOD asked her not to release that information. That right there shows that she has more integrity than most of the Democratic Congress who would release our deepest national security secrets to score political points. Secondly, if she HAD included it, the media would have ridiculed her since it was “just across the border and NOT like Obama who went to Baghdad”.

I personally, think she did the right thing.


30 posted on 09/16/2008 6:31:09 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: ruschpa; sevenbak; SBD1

This is stupid. She should go over to Baghdad tomorrow, undercut Baracki, and be done with all this.


32 posted on 09/16/2008 6:57:36 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: SBD1

what’s the big deal whether she went or not?

People go to iraq all the time. Is this some issue the media stated incorrectly. Its strange that this still has life.


33 posted on 09/16/2008 8:06:58 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: RatsDawg

Yep, it is a fact that she went to Iraq. This whole thing is a yawner. This is too easy to prove. It would really be neat if the Army allowed the Blackhawk helicopter pilot who flew her there to be interviewed. Don’t think DoD will allow it though as it inject it into politics. In any case, there is a flight log that documents the mission and there is a tasking order that assigned the mission. McCain, a former Navy pilot, knows it. There is no reason they can’t be made a matter of public record. I think Palin and McCain just letting the dems keep crashing on the rocks with this one before slamming the door on them. Dems are totally ignorent about how the military works.


34 posted on 09/16/2008 8:12:42 AM PDT by dools007
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To: SBD1

LOL. Pretty darn good.


35 posted on 09/16/2008 8:23:41 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

have a great day, all, see you tomorrow, or maybe Thursday.

Top U.S. Military Officer Reportedly in Pakistan
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Posted on 09/16/2008 8:56:29 AM PDT by RobFromGa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083533/posts

-apropos of nothing, from the archives-

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36 posted on 09/16/2008 9:25:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SBD1

Wow, someone who actually does not blab information that might be useful to the enemy (or the press).
Excellent qualification for someone who would be VP.


37 posted on 09/16/2008 9:46:07 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: 21twelve

First off, of course Canada counts. It’s the socializt country to our north that pretends to be free.

And, her staffers were saying she was still in Alaska when she had already flown to Iowa to accept the invitation.


38 posted on 09/16/2008 10:31:42 AM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: All
Reporter Dave Donaldson responds!!

Thank you for your e-mail note. I had never noticed that recordings or transcripts of Gov. Palin's press conferences were available. Thank you for pointing that out to me.

I did not do any further stories on her brief trip to the Middle East.

Beyond that, I don't quite understand your question/comment. I believe I indicated the direction one would have to travel from Kuwait if one were going to Iraq when I asked it.

-- dave donaldson


It seems that the reporter really did not understand my question because his answer refers to the time the original question was asked.

Beyond that, I don't quite understand your question/comment. I believe I indicated the direction one would have to travel from Kuwait if one were going to Iraq when I asked it.

My question asked if he forgot, not that he didn't know Iraq was to the North at the time he asked it!!

If you have not reported the answer to your July 24, 2007 press conference question regarding Governor Palin’s trip to Iraq, is it because you and the rest of the media forgot what country is further North from the border of Kuwait?

Also, does the fact he never noticed their was an audio recording of the press conference change the fact that he asked the question at that press conference and never thought to report on it when his cronies called Palin a liar??

SBD
39 posted on 09/16/2008 10:37:36 AM PDT by SBD1
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To: SBD1

Are these ridiculous “scandals” resonating with anyone outside the fever swamps of the nutroots lunatic left?


40 posted on 09/16/2008 11:33:48 AM PDT by MNSlim
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