Both candidates refer to deaths of American military personnel in Iraq, but there has been less attention to the war’s civilian causalities. In her debate with Biden, Palin actually attacked Obama for saying that, in her words, “All we’re doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”
两个候选人都谈到了在伊拉克的美军阵亡，但是对于战争中的平民死亡却较少谈论。在与拜登的辩论中，佩林攻击奥巴马的言论，用她的话来说就是“我们在阿富汗所做的一切就是空袭村庄以及杀害平民”。她称这一言论“鲁莽”以及“不真实”，因为，“那不是我们在那里干的事。我们在与恐怖分子作战，而且我们在保护民主”。