WASHINGTON POST: PALIN LINKS IRAQ TO 9/11 IN TALK TO TROOPS IN ALASKA

This is now at the stage that it is frightening.

Sarah Palin earlier on Thursday told a group of troops in Alaska that are being deployed to Iraq that Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Palin also met with ABC's Charley Gibson and said the U.S. should go to war with Russia if Russia attacks any NATO country.

We are not making this stuff up.

Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska

By Anne E. KornblutWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, September 12, 2008; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103789.html

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.

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