Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that they would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans,” reports the Washington Post.

The Bush administration once spread this view as well, thinking that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  The President has since rejected this theory. 

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Last night, on the eve of the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Olbermann slammed the Republican party for exploiting 9/11 for political purposes.

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