Unlike Senator Obama’s staged trip to the Middle East,Governor Palin went to visit the troops in Kuwait before she was ever under consideration for Veep:

Tue, July 24, 2007 Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories Governor Palin today visited with a National Guard unit from Alaska serving in Kuwait. In a press conference with Alaska reporters, the governor said she had spent “an amazing day with the 297th infantry battalion and other National Guard troops.”

And a year before Senator Obama felt the need to go.

Photos here.

Oh, and by the way, she found time to visit Landstuhl.

UPDATE: I stand corrected. Obama was in Iraq in 2006.