If so, then he's the one lying. Check out this email I just received from AMERICAblog reader Eric. I checked out the links, they're correct. What we need to know is whether Kaloogian went to Baghdad any time AFTER July of 2005. If not, then he has no right lecturing the media today about how they're lying about the truly good conditions in Iraq. Not to mention, he's posting photos of how "safe" Iraq is - photos that now appear to have been perhaps taken a year ago.
Here's Eric's note:
I’ve been digging into the Kaloogian claim of recent calm in Baghdad streets. Forget the fake photo, can anyone confirm what I am finding?
Checking into when Kaloogian was in Iraq, I find that the photos on his campaign website refer to his visit to Iraq as indeed "during the 'Voices of Soldiers' Truth Tour. The website for the tour (http://www.voicesofsoldiers.com/) seems to be down, but the Google cache clearly points out that the trip was in July 2005.
The photo of Kaloogian with soldiers in Iraq which the ‘Kaloogian for Congress’ website uses on its homepage is identical to the one on the ‘MoveAmericaForward.org’ website which appears to have been involved with the July 2005 trip. On their website Kaloogian authored an article 'Courage plentiful in Iraq' -- dated July 12, 2005.
I can find no reference to any recent visit by Kaloogian to Iraq -- only this one from last year.
If he hasn't been there recently, his claims of recent calm and peace (as well as the bogus photo) show questionable ethics to ‘spin’ the situation in Iraq.
- Eric
