Palin Doubles Back: Only Went to Iraq if You Call Kuwait "Iraq"

One lie after another from the John McCain/Sarah Palin ticket:

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."

It was the second such clarification in as many weeks of the itinerary of what Palin has called "the trip of a lifetime." Earlier, the campaign acknowledged that Palin made only a refueling stop in Ireland.

How many more times is the travel log going to be revised and extended to suit what actually happened? I like the way the Boston Globe soft peddled the headline: Palin "clarifies" trip to Iraq. Shouldn't that be more like, "makes up her trip to Iraq and admits it was Kuwait."

Before long this "trip of a lifetime" may be confessed to be a protracted pit stop at a Lebanese restaurant outside of Worcester, Mass.