Monday, September 1, 2008
Palin: “I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq”
Andrew Sullivan found an interview in Alaska Business Monthly with Sarah Palin where she admitted that she hasn’t really focused on the Iraq war.
Alaska Business Monthly: We’ve lost a lot of Alaska’s military members to the war in Iraq. How do you feel about sending more troops into battle, as President Bush is suggesting?
Palin: I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe. Every life lost is such a tragedy. I am very, very proud of the troops we have in Alaska, those fighting overseas for our freedoms, and the families here who are making so many sacrifices.
Worse then being for or against the “surge” in Iraq is to not even know about it. That’s what it sounds like with Palin. Who would have ever thought John McCain would choose a running-mate that didn’t know anything about the surge?
She wants to know that there is an exit plan in place? I might be wrong, but it seems to me that Palin’s desire for an exit plan is 180 degrees out-of-phase with McCain’s strategy for Iraq.
By admitting that she has not really focused much on the war in Iraq, she is all but nullifying the claim to fame because as the governor of Alaska she is commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard.
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