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AP headlines that did not pass through Ron Fournier's McCain Enabling Center Washington Bureau:

Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview

There are, of course, many disturbing things about Palin, and here is yet another:

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.