DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCLELLAN ISN'T MCKIERNAN
October 02, 2008Tonight, Sarah Palin said: “First McClellan did not say definitively that the surge principles would not work in Afghanistan. Certain accounting for different conditions in that country and conditions are certainly different.” [Vice Presidential Debate, 10/2/08]
The Facts: It’s Not McClellan, Its McKiernan, And That’s Not What He Said About The Surge
McKiernan, Not McClellan. Army Gen. David D. McKiernan (Not McClennan) is commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force Said: “The word I don’t use for Afghanistan is ’surge,’ ” McKiernan stressed, saying that what is required is a “sustained commitment” to a counterinsurgency effort that could last many years and would ultimately require a political, not military, solution.
[http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-mckiernan-afghanistan/]
October 02, 2008
DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCLELLAN ISN'T MCKIERNAN
October 02, 2008
DEBATE REALITY CHECK: NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
October 02, 2008
DEBATE REALITY CHECK: IRAQ
October 02, 2008
DEBATE REALITY CHECK: REFUSING TO MEET WITH SPAIN
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