Does Sarah Palin count duty-free shopping as foreign policy experience?

UPDATE: Yep, it's confirmed. Palin counted a refueling stop-over in Ireland - 30 minutes? 60 minute? - as an in-depth visit to the country. Amazing.

Irish blogger Maman Poulet notes:

So the Republican’s Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin has visited Ireland - this is listed as part of her foreign travel experience. She only got a passport last year and visited US troops (Alaskan National Guard) in Kuwait and Germany.

Two words to describe that visit to Ireland I think.

SHANNON STOPOVER! *

I could of course be wrong and Governor Palin was over to find her roots?? More as I get it.

*For US readers the Shannon Stopover refers to planes landing at Shannon Airport to refuel when on their way to and from parts of Europe/Middle East. Shannon Airport sees many US Military and contractor flights arrive there each month for refueling - passengers get off the plane for a while and then get back on again. Hardly a visit to Ireland?

If true, that would be one-third of Palin's entire national security/foreign policy experience. A 30 minute shopping trip at the Shannon airport. (It would also be an outright lie from the Bush-Palin campaign about our possible future wartime president.) I think we deserve to know the details of Palin's extensive foreign policy adventure in Ireland.

(I bought a cute shamrock mug in Shannon on a stopover, can I be VP too?)