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

Gov. Palin has said "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." And by her speech to a brigade of Alaskan soldiers, it's pretty obvious.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com 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.