Palin links Iraq, 9/11 RAW STORY

Published: Friday September 12, 2008





Print This Email This Offers discredited theory even Bush has abandoned While Sarah Palin's first sit-down interview with ABC's Charles Gibson is generating its share of headlines for demonstrating a lack of foreign policy chops on the Alaska Governor's part, her statements to a group of troops deploying for Iraq may show she's even more out of touch.



The Washington Post reports she linked the Iraq War, now in its sixth year, to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an address on the anniversary of the attacks. FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."



The idea that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself. But it is widely agreed that militants allied with al-Qaeda have taken root in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion.



"America can never go back to that false sense of security that came before September 11, 2001," she said at the deployment ceremony, which drew hundreds of military families who walked from their homes on the sprawling post to the airstrip where the service was held. FULL STORY HERE







