“In her debut as a contributor to Fox News, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin admitted Tuesday that leading up to her 2008 vice presidential debate she thought Iraq may have been behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.”
I was a high school drop out, grunt in the Army and I never thought that. Where she would have got that idea is beyond me.
There were allegations that Iraq had ties with Al Qaida within the GWB admin. Later the info was proven inaccurate, but documents captured by US forces from the Iraqi Intel indicated that Saddam was making overtures to Al Qaida and vice versa. That was an eye openner for the CIA because their experts allege that Saddam is secular and will never work with Islamic fundamentalists like Al Qaida and vice versa way before 9/11. New info indicated that both groups needed each other that time, AQ wanted a backup sanctuary just in case Afghanistan kicks them out and Saddam wanted as much Muslim support for his weakening regime. Alot of this info is still being interpretted from Arabic to English and stored in the US intel archives. GWB never used the info to strengthen his reasons for war in Iraq. Maybe it contained sensitive info that cannot be publicized, who knows, maybe our grandchildren will get to peruse them in the future.