Misleading Washington Post Columnist

If you read a recent WashingtonPost.com column written by Anne E. Kornblut, you would be lead to believe that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was a moron who did not know that al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government were not linked in the planning of the 11 September 2001 attacks on American.

In this she misleads. And I believe it was very intentional. She writes the following, in her 12 September 2008 article entitled Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska:

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.

The title and the proposition are totally misleading, and obviously so. It was obvious that Gov. Palin, who made no reference to Saddam or his government, was meaning the al-Qaeda forces currently in Iraq who have been fighting our military there for years. This was merely an attempt to make the new vice presidential candidate look ignorant and out of touch.

I emailed Ms. Kornblut with the following:

Dear Ms. Kornblut,
I will make a not-altogether brash assumption that you are an intelligent woman. That being the case, it should be as obvious to you as it was to me that when Gov. Palin talked about her son and the troops fighting against the people that hurt us on September 11, 2001, that she meant Al Quaida, which is in Iraq fighting against our forces even now, and have been for years now. She made no reference to the previous government of Iraq or it's dictator. What she said was true, we are fighting, in Iraq, those who want to kill and us have already killed many Americans, including on September 11. Surely you knew this when you wrote your article, and that can only mean that you are attempting to mislead. The sad thing is that it will probably be effective.

I will not hold my breathe for a response, and I doubt that any response would be more objective than her already intellectually dishonest 'reporting.'