Palin, Iraq and 9/11

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Wow this woman is so much more than Obama and a bag of chips.
She makes Obama look like a first grader.
She should be President, she is sure and steadfast. It would take Obama all day to say what she did in 20 minutes!
You have my vote Sarah.
Tell charlie that Sarah can fly him to the tundra and shoot dinner for the media misogamists!

Sadam had nothing to do with 911 Bush told us he did McCain told us he did!
FOX news told us 27000 times it did it was a lie.
Al Qaida in Iraq has no links or ties to Al Qaida fact!
Al Qaida in Iraq is a term created by the Bush government to try to trick the American public into believing there is a link!
Department of defence information on : Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is a group playing an active role in the Iraqi insurgency.
SO IT IS REALLY THE IRAQ FREEDOM FIGHTERS! JUST AS I WOULD FIGHT ANY NATION THAT INVADED OUR NATION!
AQI is one of Iraq’s most feared militant organisations and many experts regard it as the United States’ most formidable enemy in the country.
The UN say’s that the threat posed by AQI is exaggerated that a “heavy focus on al-Qaeda obscures a much more complicated situation on the ground.
AQI is in reality the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC), in an attempt to unify Sunni insurgents in Iraq. However, its efforts to recruit Iraqi Sunni nationalists and secular groups were undermined by its violent tactics against civilians and its extreme Islamic fundamentalist doctrine. Because of these impediments, the attempt was largely unsuccessful.
According to both the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate and the Defense Intelligence Agency reports AQI accounted for 15 percent of attacks in Iraq. However, the Congressional Research Service noted in its September 2007 report that attacks from al-Qaeda are less than two percent of the violence in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration’s statistics, noting that its false reporting of insurgency attacks as AQI attacks has increased since the “surge” operations began.
Al Qaida is not Al Qaida in Iraq.
Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaida was named “al-Qaida” in an executive order issued by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Al Qaida was realy a group called Maktab al-Khadamat.
ITs BS
We named all the Iraqi freedom fighters Al Qaida in Iraq. When the truth is these two groups have no ties!
Maktab al-Khidamat the real Al Qaida group was renamed by US Intelegence agencies to hide from the American people the fact that the US government trained and funded the group for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
So most of the American public doesnt know we created the monster!
MAK maintained a close liaison with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency through which the CIA funneled money and training to Osama bin Laden’s MAK for the Afghan war with the Russians.
Several former members of the “active service” of the CIA were employed and provided as “expert consultants” to Osama bin Laden’s MAK.

Does the Washington Post think Al Qaeda isn’t in Iraq? Do they think Islamic terrorists aren’t in Iraq? Do they think that retreating from an unstable Iraq is going to benefit America’s fight against Islamic extremism?
I realize WaPo is in the tank for Obama. But it’s quite a stretch to take from Palin’s remarks that Iraq was responsible for 9/11. I’d call it “silly season” but we’re talking about our National Security here.

Palin is an idealogist. It is really unfortunate to see her exploiting every misfortune of her children for political gains. The younger son with Dawn syndrome for pro-life propaganda, the pregnant teenage daughter for evangelical propaganda again and her son who has become a soldier because of his troubling behaviors. Palin’s political actions are indeed too low. God save America from McPalin.

I cannot believe that people really think this lady is presidential material. Yes, she is smart and can get things done, but her ego is above her own experience.
Why isn’t there more being brought out about her personal life ,church,family,reputaion. Everyone LOVED slamming Obama and now Biden!!! Do they consider her off limits because she is a women?

Hey ABC, why are you carrying this dishonest piece taking her out of context?
by the way, Saddam’s regime DID celebrate the 9-11 attacks and he painted a huge mural in celebration of them. That’s not opinion, it’s fact.
Thanks for more of the tired old pro Democrat drivvel we can expect of the MSM though.

I think she did great. And what’s nice about the difference between her and Obama- she is authentic and true convictions. Obama’s “convictions” are up for sale to the highest bidder. He’s a shady guy with a lot of REALLY dangerous friends. Don’t forget that.

Anne Kornblut has been slanted towards Obama since day 1. I’ve read lots of her columns. And her chats are the same. Everything about Obama is deferential.
I thought the Palin statement was about the most harmless, generalized statement one could make in the context. What was she supposed to say — “You’re going off to fight a war that we never should have started — so don’t get yourself killed?”

WOW!!!!!
Is this a stupid statement:
“Al Qaida in Iraq has no links or ties to Al Qaida fact!”
If this individual would attempt to do the research, she would learn that Al Qaida in Iraq has direct ties to the Osama group. {{{shaking head}}}

katmandu
You wrote:
What was she supposed to say –”You’re going off to fight a war that we never should have started — so don’t get yourself killed?”
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So you want your troops and the American people to be lied to by there leaders ??
You’re going off to fight a war that we never should have started — so don’t get yourself killed?”
Would at least be the truth!

HP…get off the cool-aid. We need a leader who knows what they are doing. Not one that holds up in a room for 4 days and gets versed on the issues….

you all should be very scared…ugh
I can’t believe you people…
this woman is not being elected to the head of the local “lets discuss world politivs” committee…which she would have failed at.
she is asking to be the person that is the back up to wade through all of this cr@p we are in
the person that would launch nuclear (or like bush “nucular” missiles)
She didn’t do okay…I a citizen would be more equipped to be Vice President than she is…
it is about basic knowledge of the problems we face…she is …there are no words to describe how underqualified and Bad this woman is.
and how bad John mcCain’s whacked judgment was that he would actually hire this woman.
Her record is overwhelmingly mixed in Alaska. In a time when the state is having a boom because of the oil industry.
so stop with how popular she is…she is popular because of huge oil windfalls affording the oil companies being okay with getting taxed more and the return flowing into her state.
This is not the local Town Board Chair…
this is the person who should hav eknown the Bush Doctirne…and the details of Israel…and the known what answering like that does to our job in the middle east peace process…and how it complicates it…
and ugh
this is ridiculous
that woman you saw last night …you really think she should be deciding if we go to war,
or deciding whether “nucular” missiles should be launched
or American commercial jetliners should be bshot down over NYC
Gov palin what if it were a Russian commercial airliner? or British? or Pakistani?
would you know the ramifications of such a choice?
you all should be feeling nauseous from that interview last night.
Absolutely ridiculous that that person on that interview …would be close to any position of leadership…never mind the Leader of the freakin free world…
like was said before…this is not some Disney movie.
jesu$ how stupid can we be for a third time.

you she really confused. she has no knowledge for what she talking.She needs some extra classes to get her facts right

Deb, you wrote: “Bush told us he did McCain told us he did!”
THAT IS NOT TRUE! From the very beginning President Bush and Vice President Cheney said that while there may be links between Iraq and al Qaeda (the 9/11 Commission confirmed these links), there is NO evidence that Iraq or Saddam Hussein had anything to do with the attacks on 9/11.
Now as for al Qaeda being in Iraq prior to the invasion, the following is from the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, passed by Congress in October 2002: “Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;”
We didn’t invade Iraq for another 5 months!

Misc ‘Odd’ Thoughts on ABC SP Interviews:
1) All of ABC staff invloved seem angry.
2) CG was not wearing a suit. A blazer is usually a sign of ‘informality’. And I don’t recall a single interview that he has conducted with the other candidates – the men – when he was not wearing a suit (if they were dressed ‘formally’). It is just a basic sign of respect.
3) SP spoke without saying ‘um/ ‘ah/ etc. Nice (wish I could do the same).
4) The presentation of the interview by ABC is not consistent. Every ABC program and ABC transcript that I have seen or read has some ‘variation’. And the editing does not appear to be in SP favor.
5) GMA used a ‘Fact Check’ segment after the interview was shown. I can not recall them ever doing that to the other candidates – especially right-on-the-heels of the interview, and using a ‘False stamp’. Also, I had the vague sense that the ABC facts were misleading (‘past VP candidates meeting Foreign Leaders’, Truman?).

Sarah Palin seems to be pretty erratic on international politics. Could someone brief her on these subjects, asap? Maybe it would be easier and safer to change the Republican VP slot.

Palin is correct.
After we invaded Iraq, al qaeda streamed into the country and made it their central fight against us.
However many al qaeda there were beforehand, and however significant or insignificant their numbers until then, that is who we are fighting in Iraq now
We’re not fighting the government or its military.
We’re no longer fighting the only large domestic militia which went up against us to any major degree (al sadr’s “mahdi army”).
We’re not fighting the Shi’ites, Sunis or Kurds individually.
With few exceptions, the only group we ARE fighting in Iraq is al qaeda and their adherents.
The effort of the Post and other media venues to take down Ms. Palin any way they can is remarkable. I’ve watched politics for 50 or so years and have never seen this immediate and this intense (and this dishonest) a series of attacks on one candidate in my life.
How bad is it? Here’s a great example:
Just prior to Barack Obama’s “pig in lipstick” insult, he lifted and used a statement from the political cartoonist for the Post, Tom Toles with no attribution at all.
Obama said, verbatim, that “John McCain says he’s about change too. And so I guess his whole angle is, Watch out George Bush. Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington”
The verbatim words in the Toles cartoon, published almost a week before, are “Watch out Mr. Bush. With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we’re coming in their to shake things up”
That overt plagiarism from one of the paper’s most visible staff members doesn’t seem to bother the Post. But Sarah Palin noting that we fight al qaeda in Iraq does.
Then they wonder why people call them biased.

Directlly RELATED to::9/11…I would accuse IRAQ of attempting to PROFIT by JIHAD–//..from reading media stories about the war(watching the Evening NEWS)..IRAQ would have attempted to re-create the extermination camps/..I don’t think that 9/11 was directly a LINK to::extermination..but maybe tied to a COST(suffered)by JIHAD..9/11 was a attempt to RING-a-BELL about JIHAD..and the COST-continues…IRAQ may have come too some POINT–that JIHAD might be turned into something else(many Islamic Believers)say that the war is evil…that’s about all that might explain IRAQ+JIHAD+others/[end]

so palin is in agreement with war with russia over georgia——-all i can say is -HELL NO I WONT GO—–stay home and build a bunker—–the woman is a true —

There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq
when Saddam ruled. Al Qaeda
came in after our occupation.

During the Cold War the two
sides were more or less evenly
matched militarily.
The Russians say that Gorbachev
was assured by us and NATO that
there would be no NATO expansion
east of West Germany once the
Russians pulled out of eastern
Europe. They say that the West
has broken its word.
Bush-McCain thinking goes like
this. During the Cold War it
used to be:
(USA + NATO) vs (Russia + Warsaw Pact)
Now if we bring in most, if not
all, of the republics of the USSR
into NATO, the military forces
would look like this:
(USA + NATO + most former USSR republics) versus (Russia)
This forever establishes our
military dominance over Russia.
Bush and McCain think that in
any military conflict like the
one that just ended in Georgia
the the entire might of the
new Western alliance would be
lined up against Russia.
Bush and McCain will start a war
assuming only the best possible
outcome in our favor.
Think about it:
Nobody gave Vietnam a chance
against the mighty USA.
Bush and McCain told us Iraq
would be easy.
Now the military brass are
telling us that an eventual
victory in Afghanistan is
not a guaranteed thing.
The consequences of increasing
tensions and a potential
military confronation with
Russia are highly unpredictable.

I reiterate:
The Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, passed by Congress in October 2002: “Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;”
That was 5 months before we went into Iraq.

Deb,
I am not going to waste my time posting links to prove my point. If you wanna believe their is no connection between Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Osama group…then their is little I can do to change your mind.
Just think for a minute back when civilians where being killed by the dozens…almost daily in Iraq by Al Qaeda. Over time that threat has been reduced drastically. Messages from Al Qaeda within Iraq to Osama’s number 2 have been intercepted. So the connection does exist.
Have a good day…I can’t stand the hysteria and stupidity I am reading here today over Palin by the naive, the ignorant, the stupid, Moonbats, Bush haters and other Far Left groups who obviously care little about the facts and the future of their country.

LETS GET BACK TO WAR IN IRAQ—-HOW MANY YEARS AGO WE WERE TOLD WE WON ?—-NOW WE ARE STILL THERE –WHY?—-WHY IS china GETTING OIL OUT OF IRAQ—A COMMUNIST COUNTRY IS REAPING THE SPOILS OUT OF IRAQ—OUR GOVERNMENT IS LIKE A MAD DOG WITH NO END IN SIGHT , AND WE HAVE GENIUSES THAT WANT TO START MORE—AS FOR MCCAIN AND PALIN –HE HAS PROVEN THAT HE HAS NO SENSE AT ALL –AND PALIN HAS VERY LITTLE IN THE LINE OF BRAINS.

Sarah Palin is a joke !!! Wake up American. This woman has traveled to Canada and Mexico prior to her trip to Iraq on last year!!!!! Because Russia is Alaska’s next door neighbor, does that give you any foreign policy experience or knowledge. We are all doomed if this extremist is elected as VP.

That’s a stretch. If Palin said it was a nice day, liberals would say that she was taking antidepressives.
Palin will be ready on January 21. She doesn’t have to be ready before that.
That’s what matters.

IF MCCAIN WINS —WE BETTER GET BACK TO BUILDING BUNKERS——AS FOR MCCAIN YOU NOW KNOW WHAT A —D —AVERAGE STUDENT IS REALLY LIKE—-DUMB—–

What do I think?
She is stupid.
She is “a machine playing A La Bush’s scenario”.
As for her – she does NOT think.
Seems, she does not know how.
“Street Smart” Liar – that what she is.
America is in Danger with this Moron on VP spot.

gtessex,
The daily bombing’s and killings you speak of were turff wars between the suni and the shia’s their common enemy was us. we invaded their nation.
What would you do ? Would you Fight for your freedom ? I would ?
DOD documents dont link QAI and Al Qaeda.
Because they are not the same group!
No conection!

That performance was canned and would be funny if not so bloody dire. McCain is far from the picture of healthm Thos woman looked like someone taking a her final poli sci 101 exam. If she passed with a C it would allow her to advance her meticulation. However is it too much to ask that we have a VP candidate actually understand nuance? She is on the job training for a job she MUST be fully prepared for. This is a sad joke on the people of America.

It’s plain and simple, she just doesn’t get it.
Like Bush and his war-mongering party, war is the solution to everything. Yesterday she talked about us going to war with Russia.
Palin, like Bush, is an End-of-Times believer, and the idea of war is mighty appealing to her. But not to me. If she wants end of times, she can burn her own house down.

MCCAIN HAS SHOWN US WHAT DUMB AND DUMBER ARE ALL ABOUT-
THIS ONE IS A NO BRAINER IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD
GOODBY WORK TIME
SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR THESE WARS

What’s the difference between Cheney/Bush and Palin/McCain
LIPSTICK

Having found no “collaborative relationship” is NOT the same as saying there are no links at all. The fact is that al Qaeda actually had a training camp in northern Iraq at least 6 months before the invasion.

What can I say?
Where is John McCain?

LOL, Palin should spend a little less time talking trash and a little more time with her teenage daughter on the subject of BIRTH CONTROL! What a joke!
Jiss

Sunday, September 07, 2008
10 Ways in Which Sarah Palin Is *Exactly* Like George W. Bush–or Goes Beyond Him
1) Like Bush, she is completely against a woman’s right to choose (in fact, she exceeds Bush in that she is against a woman’s right to choose even in cases of rape or incest;
2) Like Bush, she opposes stem cell research to prevent fatal diseases in men, women and children;
3) Like Bush, supports the teaching of Creationism alongside Evolution in public schools;
4) Like Bush, does not believe that Global Warming is man made;
5) Like Bush, has supported abstinence-only sex education methods that have proven ineffective;
6) Like Bush, has virtually no foreign policy experience prior to running for national office–
7) Like Bush, has engaged in conduct that has resulted in current government investigation of her actions;
8) Like Bush, has made statements which indicate lack of knowledge of basic elements of the office they are running for (Palin, July 2008: “What exactly does the Vice President do everyday?”);
9) Like Bush, has been sequestered to prevent her being asked questions that she has not yet been prepared to answer;
10) Like Bush, talks like a reformer–yet in her actions (i.e., relying on lobbying, supporting the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it) acts in the most typical, all-too-familiar fashion.
BONUS! In a view that even Bush has discarded, Palin still links Iraq to 9-11.
Still willing to put her a heartbeat from the Presidency with a 72 year old candidate?
H/T: On The Issues

James Danley
Having found no “collaborative relationship” is NOT the same as saying there are no links at all. The fact is that al Qaeda actually had a training camp in northern Iraq at least 6 months before the invasion.
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The fact is the story your pushing have been proved to be a lie.. The traing camps which as the story goes was used to train 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta never existed it a lie…
The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind wrote. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the vice-president’s office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.” From – The Way of the World by Ron Suskind

cindy in nc
It’s pretty obvious how much Palin’s toughness scares Obama supporters.
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I think shes dumb not tough!
I think the fact my neibours could answer those questions better laughable!
Shes a joke…
McCain choice for VP is a crazy wacko!
She is Bush 2

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was running an al Qaeda training camp in northern Iraq prior to the invasion. By the way, Mohammad Atta had been dead a year by then!

McCain/Palin should just go on vacation.
The way the Democrats are flipping out and saying rediculous things they are losing women and independents in droves.
-comparing BO to Jesus because he was a community organizer
-Palin’s only qualification is because she didn’t have an abortion
-BO’s lipstick comment
-Biden saying Palin is a step backward for women
-sending 30 lawyers to AL
-pro-Obama media attacks
-BO calling people stupid and liars
Where’s their confidence in Obama to win on his star power?

Meanwhile, back on teh campaign trail with the VP nominee who supposedly has 35 years of experience…
Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation
By John M. Broder
Thursday, September 11, 2008

riley
Even time mccain lies and palin speacks the lose woman and ind’s.
She looked stupid in the interview everone has said it today!

Republican’s keep tellin us what scares us about Palin is she is ok now but she will be great later on. I’m sorry a 2 month crash course on foriegn policy isn’t good enough for this great nation! What scares the crap outa me is that a woman who is a breath away from being leader of the free world needs to cram for the job!!! That’s utter bull and Republicans know it. Country first my ***!

Barack last nite in the forum on volunteerism said basically the same thing.
In response to what happened in the country after 9/11 he spoke about a few things regarding unity then said this.
Paraphrasing…We went after the people who did this…

Jihadis and Al Qaeda didn’t exist in Iraq before we came in!
She doesn’t know anything about foreign policy except what the Bush cronies tell her!
This woman will NEVER get elected. Her bubble is bursting in 3…2…1…

Sally,
If there is a Ticket that has been fighting like 4th graders, it is the Mccain Campaign.
The keep churning out lies in their Ads with a view to confuse Americans.
They take quotations out of context. Even factcheck.com had to castigate them from gross dishonesty.
If Mccain can not stay above board because of his desire to win the election at all cost, what message do you think that sends to our Children – There is no shame in lying your way up.
Is that the kind of message you want you Child(ren) to carry in their minds for life.
Obama has been a complete Gentleman. I wish he could get into the trenches and discard his gloves.
The Mccain’s Campaign is playing dirty. Sarah Palin is propagating falsehoods and her beliefs are to the extreme.

Maybee – you are correct – Al qeada is in Iraq now and was there before but that is separate.
alwriter60 – you admit Al Qeada are there now, so what is wrong with Palin’s speech?, like Maybee says is he going in a time machine!
You libs are so funny it is scary that you can vote! You ignore the socialist comments from Obama, but try to make something out of nothing!!
Journalism is dead in 2008

Dare Nigeria – get your factrs correct – factcheck.org is ran by a liberal organization, so do not go by them, name one distortion McCain has said, and tall me something is not Obama whining all the time?
It seems that the libs are afraid because McCain picked a running mate with far more experience then Obama or Biden put together. But what I do not understand is why they bring up the experience because it is obvious it works against Obama!!
Palin over 10 years experience as an executive (Mayor and Governor)
Obama – 3 years as a Solinski (Socialist Group) Community Organizer
Lets see only 2 Presidents came from the Congress, the majority were Governors or VP’s So History proves that Palin is considered more experience. And did not Clinton say he had the experience because he was a Governor,
Libs are Hypocrits!!

This is just silly. Our major enemy in Iraq is a group call Al Qaeda in Iraq. Palin was making the point that, by fighting in Iraq, we are fighting the same enemy that attacked us. It’s a huge leap to say that she is blaming Iraq for 9/11.
The Left is so keen to catch Palin in a gaffe they’re blind to Biden’s gaffe-o-rama, not to mention Obama’s long history of stupid statements.

It’s obvious to most people that Saddam hasn’t been in Iraq for close to five years, and that Palin was speaking recently. Now, I do give WaPo the understanding that they haven’t been covering Iraq all that much since things have been going well for the US, so maybe that’s why the article’s author is confused and thinks Saddam is still in charge over there.

The WaPo is already backtracking on their misreporting of this and have performed a “stealth edit” at their web site of the lying paragraph. So I guess that settles it that Governor Palin was NOT implying or saying outright that Saddam ordered 9/11 and that’s why Coalition troops are in Iraq.
And speaking of stealth edits, Mr. Tapper, how about ABC prove that it’s not part of the dinosaurs of the (print) media and put all of the unedited video footage online? You know, so we can really see everything that was asked and answered?
I realize that you’re not a “suit” at ABC, but maybe you can try to influence the brass to air all of the footage online. It’s what the hip kids would do.

I think she watches too much FoxNews.
One often-cited research study about the faulty news coverage of Fox News is from the University of Maryland Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) Research Center. Released in October 2003 and titled “Misperceptions, The Media and The Iraq War,” the researchers from Knowledge Networks in Menlo Park, Calif. conducted a poll with nearly 10,000 respondents. The study was to see the frequency of misperceptions concerning the news coverage on the Iraq War. The questions focused on whether Iraq was involved with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, whether Iraq was supporting al-Qaeda terrorists, whether weapons of mass destruction have been found, and whether world opinion was for or against the U.S. invading Iraq. The reality was that no links between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda terrorists have ever surfaced and no weapons of mass destruction have been found. In general, world opinion about the U.S. invasion of Iraq is overwhelmingly negative or non-supportive.

“a place where al Quaeda once had a stronghold and is now being rooted out.”
And when did this Al Queda stronghold come into being?

“You want to know what I think? I think you are spending a hell of alot more time picking through Sarah Palin’s words than you have ever spent picking through Obama’s words.”
Waaaaaaaahhhhh
Stop writing about the only interview our VP nominee has given.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

“But it is widely agreed that militants allied with al-Qaeda have taken root in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion. ”
Could you do your readers a favor quoting this paragraph?”
Yes so that they can see as Plain talks about the ones who actually attacked us and conflates them with a supportive organization of the same name that was not in Iraq until we invaded in 2003.

Sadly, Sarah Palin expressed what many Americans still believe to this day — the Iraq War was retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. There are only two possbile conclusions — She is either ignorant herself about the truth or, in a strategical political move, is happy to advance the ignorance of the American people as long as it keeps bringing the “fear” votes in for the Republican party.

The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Sarah’s oldest son, Track, was addicted to the power drug OxyContin for nearly the past two years, snorting it, eating it, smoking it and even injecting it. And as Track, 19, heads to Iraq as part of the U.S. armed forces, Sarah and her husband Todd were powerless to stop his wild antics, detailed in the new issue of The ENQUIRER, which goes on sale today.
The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity status to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”
“He finally did what a lot of troubled kids here do,” the source divulged. “You join the military.”
And as Gov. Palin has billed the state of Alaska for various expenses related to her children, as reported by The Washington Post, The ENQUIRER’s investigation reveals that she was so incensed by 17-year-old Bristol’s pregnancy that she banished her daughter from the house.

Some of you Obama supporters are showing signs of unmitigated desperation in your comments. You really hate the fact that Sen. McCain has chosen an incredibly superior vice presidential running mate (even your own VP candidate said that he wasn’t the best choice) that you have to reach to the bottom of the sewer for your personal attacks against Sen. McCain, Gov. Palin (and her family) and all conservatives. And I thought the Democratic Party was the party of inclusion and tolerance. You prove that you are tolerant of only those of a like ideology. So much for “The One’s” mystical powers to unite everyone into a message of hope and change. It’s just the same ol’ hatred towards those who disagree with you.
What you Obama supporters fail to understand is that Republicans win when the base of the party is energized. And Sen. McCain’s selection of Gov. Palin has more than energized the Republican Party she has energized Independents and disenchanted Democrats. Sen. McCain has more legislative experience and foreign policy experience than Sen. Obama! And Gov. Palin has more executive experience than Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden combined.

As a female business owner and Republican (moderate and currently undecided as to presidential election), I found the Palin interview fair and balanced. However, I was disturbed by her lack of knowledge on national security/foreign relations…she reminded me of myself when I just started out in business…determined, yes; prepared, not really, but I honestly thought I was…however, somehow I expected the party to prepare Palin properly, but then again she didn’t have much time to prepare for this task of running for VP. So, I rate Palin’s performance as ‘fair’ and had she shown more confidence, my rating would be a bit higher. She seemed ‘on edge’…which for me, as a business executive was very surprising. Gibson is nothing compared to the series of very difficult interviews everyone who holds the two top positions in the land faces almost everyday. The interview helps some of us understand why our party has kept her away from the national media. She should do much better when interviewed by our conservative commentator Sean Hannity on Pox News. I’m glad there are 50+ days left to give me more time to push away from all the news jabs so I can make the best decision in November. Unlike some, my vote will not be on personalities. As an informed women, I value my vote, my voice…my ancestors fought too long and worked too hard for me to base my vote on something so foolish as personality or gender. For me, it’s facts and not fluff. The challenge is getting past all of the ‘talking heads’ (I find our commentators particularly misleading and have voiced my frustrations to them). Lately, I’ve had to turn them off. But I can’t turn to the newspaper because there is too much bias there on both sides. Does anyone know where to truly find unbiased news? I find myself turning to C-Span more than I ever have in the past.