Debate: truth or not so much

CommonDreams posted a great article about the true and mostly false statements from the VP debate Thursday.
The VP Debate: Dishonest Foreign Policies goes fact-by-fact and tells the truth about what Palin and Biden said. I do think it is a tragedy that this article can be found at CommonDreams and originally "Foreign Policy in Focus" -- both not frequented enough to be mainstream or seen by the people/voters who need to see this type of information.

"PALIN: 'You guys opposed the surge. The surge worked. Barack Obama still can't admit the surge works.'
Obama actually has claimed that the surge worked. This makes both he and Palin wrong, however."
"PALIN: 'And with the surge that has worked we're now down to pre-surge numbers in Iraq.'
This is completely untrue. Prior to the "surge" in January 2007, the United States had approximately 132,000 troops in Iraq. Currently, there are 146,000 troops in Iraq."
"BIDEN: 'With regard to Iraq, I gave the president the power [in the October 2002 Iraq War Resolution]. I voted for the power because he said he needed it not to go to war but to keep the United States, the UN in line, to keep sanctions on Iraq and not let them be lifted.'
This was perhaps the most seriously misleading statement of the entire debate.
Palin correctly countered with the fact that "it was a war resolution." Indeed, the resolution supported by Biden explicitly stated that "The president is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate." Biden certainly knew that. "

"PALIN: 'Barack Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians. And such a reckless, reckless comment and untrue comment, again, hurts our cause.'
Obama never said that that is "all we're doing in Afghanistan." Furthermore, it's well-documented by the Afghan government, independent journalists, reputable human rights groups, and even the U.S. military itself that U.S. air strikes on Afghan villages have killed civilians."
"BIDEN: 'There have been 7,000 madrassas built along that [Afghan-Pakistani] border. We should be helping them build schools to compete for those hearts and minds of the people in the region so that we're actually able to take on terrorism ...'
A madrassa is a school."