By most accounts, Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson last night was an impressive display, with Palin performing much better than I am sure many media pundits believed (or hoped) she would. Lacking sufficient ammunition to attack her based on her interview with Gibson, the Washington Post has decided it would be necessary to simply fabricate a story, one which will surely be replayed over and over by lefty blogs for the next week or two.

The Post decided is was not simply enough to throw a misleading attack at Palin somewhere around paragraph three or four however, they did so right in their headline, “Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska“, then continued from there;

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.

StopTheACLU calls this attack willful ignorance, I prefer to think of it is willful deceit. The Post is fully aware that we are not engaged in battle with the country of Iraq, as evidenced by that last sentence “it is widely agreed that militants allied with al-Qaeda have taken root in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion”. Therefore the ‘enemies’ Sarah Palin was referring to was not the government of Iraq, who are now our allies, but those who wish to overthrow the government of Iraq, the very same militants the Post itself acknowledges are tied with al-Qaeda.

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