Debate Analysis: What They Got Wrong

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Debate Analysis: What They Got Wrong
October 03, 2008
Knight Ridder

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin and Joe Biden traded jabs, scored rhetorical points and occasionally stretched the truth or misspoke on foreign and domestic-policy issues in their vice presidential debate Thursday night.

Both candidates had some stumbles on foreign policy. Palin, in criticizing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's Iraq policy, said that President Bush's Iraq troop "surge" plan had worked and that U.S. troop levels in Iraq are now back at pre-surge levels.

In fact, there are 152,000 troops in Iraq. There were 137,000 troops there before the surge.

Palin also said that Obama has refused to acknowledge that the surge worked, but in a Fox News interview last month, he said, "The surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated . . . I've always said it's succeeded beyond our wildest dream."

In Iraq, Palin said, "we're getting closer and closer to victory," and "victory is within sight" because of the surge.


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