1) Track Palin = Al-Qaeda's new target after the prince left Baghdad
2) Sure will get preferential treatment. Unless of coz the plan is to get her sympathy votes if something was to happen to him? Would anyone stoop so low as that? Well in America you just wouldn't know what people will do for power.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AFP) - - Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin sent her son off to fight for a "righteous cause" as his Army unit prepared to deploy to Iraq.
Palin promised the 4,000 troops gathered on a tarmac at Fort Wainwright Thursday that she was honored to be there to see them "go forth in defense of America and America's cause -- and it is a righteous cause."
"You will be there to win," she told the soldiers preparing for a 12 month deployment. "You will see victory."
Palin warned that there were "hardships to be endured and sacrifices to be accepted" before the war was won but said it was a "just and vital" battle.
"You'll be there to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the deaths of thousands of Americans because America can never go back to that false sense of security before September 11, 2001," she said on the seventh anniversary of the attacks.
A link between Iraq and the attacks was touted by the White House before the US invasion but no longer. However, Al-Qaeda has since moved into the country.
Palin praised the sacrifice of the 32 troops from Wainwright who had died in Iraq and told the soldiers standing before her "you'll be there to serve the same cause of freedom from tyranny and from violence."
Palin lauded the soldiers for their commitment to serve a cause greater than themselves, a central theme of running mate John McCain's campaign for the presidency in the November 4 election.
But the Alaskan governor avoided overt references to her campaign in deference to a prohibition on political activity on military bases. Nor did she mention her son Track, 19, who she proudly mentions in every stump speech, though some of her words seems aimed in his direction.
"Don't mind us, your parents, your friends, your family if we allow for some tears or if we hold you once more before you are gone because we're going to miss you," she said.
"We can't help it. We're going to miss you."
Seven columns of soldiers marched out onto the airstrip at stood at attention against a backdrop of hills bursting with fall colors of orange, yellow, red and green in a deployment ceremony rich with military tradition
Track Palin was hard to spot among the 4,000 soldiers in black berets and camouflage.
That's just the way he would like it, said Major Chris Hyde, the brigade's spokesman.
"He's a very low key, very modest person," Hyde told reporters.
Track Palin joined the military on September 11, 2007 because he wanted to "pave his own way in life," Hyde said.
"He doesn't want to be known just as the governor's son."
He will be guarding the brigade's commander and deputy commander as part of a "striker" team.
"Largely we'll be providing security but a great portion of providing security is to enable us and to enable the provincial reconstruction teams to do a lot of the work to rebuild the country," Hyde said.
There has been no request to give Palin additional protection while in Iraq because his mother is running to be vice president, Hyde said.
And there was no link between her nomination and her presence at the base, Hyde said.
"She was asked and volunteered to be the guest speaker months ago," he told reporters. "She's always been very much a friend to this brigade and the military in general."
2) Sure will get preferential treatment. Unless of coz the plan is to get her sympathy votes if something was to happen to him? Would anyone stoop so low as that? Well in America you just wouldn't know what people will do for power.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AFP) - - Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin sent her son off to fight for a "righteous cause" as his Army unit prepared to deploy to Iraq.
Palin promised the 4,000 troops gathered on a tarmac at Fort Wainwright Thursday that she was honored to be there to see them "go forth in defense of America and America's cause -- and it is a righteous cause."
"You will be there to win," she told the soldiers preparing for a 12 month deployment. "You will see victory."
Palin warned that there were "hardships to be endured and sacrifices to be accepted" before the war was won but said it was a "just and vital" battle.
"You'll be there to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the deaths of thousands of Americans because America can never go back to that false sense of security before September 11, 2001," she said on the seventh anniversary of the attacks.
A link between Iraq and the attacks was touted by the White House before the US invasion but no longer. However, Al-Qaeda has since moved into the country.
Palin praised the sacrifice of the 32 troops from Wainwright who had died in Iraq and told the soldiers standing before her "you'll be there to serve the same cause of freedom from tyranny and from violence."
Palin lauded the soldiers for their commitment to serve a cause greater than themselves, a central theme of running mate John McCain's campaign for the presidency in the November 4 election.
But the Alaskan governor avoided overt references to her campaign in deference to a prohibition on political activity on military bases. Nor did she mention her son Track, 19, who she proudly mentions in every stump speech, though some of her words seems aimed in his direction.
"Don't mind us, your parents, your friends, your family if we allow for some tears or if we hold you once more before you are gone because we're going to miss you," she said.
"We can't help it. We're going to miss you."
Seven columns of soldiers marched out onto the airstrip at stood at attention against a backdrop of hills bursting with fall colors of orange, yellow, red and green in a deployment ceremony rich with military tradition
Track Palin was hard to spot among the 4,000 soldiers in black berets and camouflage.
That's just the way he would like it, said Major Chris Hyde, the brigade's spokesman.
"He's a very low key, very modest person," Hyde told reporters.
Track Palin joined the military on September 11, 2007 because he wanted to "pave his own way in life," Hyde said.
"He doesn't want to be known just as the governor's son."
He will be guarding the brigade's commander and deputy commander as part of a "striker" team.
"Largely we'll be providing security but a great portion of providing security is to enable us and to enable the provincial reconstruction teams to do a lot of the work to rebuild the country," Hyde said.
There has been no request to give Palin additional protection while in Iraq because his mother is running to be vice president, Hyde said.
And there was no link between her nomination and her presence at the base, Hyde said.
"She was asked and volunteered to be the guest speaker months ago," he told reporters. "She's always been very much a friend to this brigade and the military in general."
