The Tall Tale of Tuzla

Slate.com ^ | March 31st, 2008 | Christopher Hitchens

[The_Republican]

The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.

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Yet Sen. Clinton, given repeated chances to modify her absurd claim to have operated under fire while in the company of her then-16-year-old daughter and a USO entertainment troupe, kept up a stone-faced and self-loving insistence that, yes, she had exposed herself to sniper fire in the cause of gaining moral credit and, perhaps to be banked for the future, national-security "experience." This must mean either a) that she lies without conscience or reflection; or b) that she is subject to fantasies of an illusory past; or c) both of the above. Any of the foregoing would constitute a disqualification for the presidency of the United States.

[The_Republican]

Hitchens as usual, rips Hildabeast a new one.

[fight_truth_decay]

Hitchens - Obama lover, as is the rest of the MSM who will use their powers of influence to decide the 2008 election. They just took into account the counter culture power of Operation Chaos.

[Charles Henrickson]

LANDING ON A JET PLANE
Tune: "Leaving on a Jet Plane" Original

All the odds are stacked, I'm ready to run
I'm standin' here, holdin' my gun
I hate to call you up to say goodbye
But the battle's ragin', I hear the sounds
The tank is waitin', he's shootin' some rounds
I know there's so much danger I could die

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

There's so many shots, it takes my breath
So many times I've cheated death
I tell you now, we just lost a wing
Every combat zone, I pay my dues
Every mission flown is stuff I'll use
Some day I'll throw my pantsuit in the ring

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

Now the time has come for battle
My future's not as bright as cattle
I'll close my eyes, while the cannons boom
I'll dream about the campaign trail
When I can tell my wartime tale
About the time I faced death and doom

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

[fight_truth_decay]

inserts "never"

[The_Republican]

Nevertheless its exteremely interesting that HILLARY intervened and tried to Stop Bill Klinton from intervening in Bosnia because she wanted HILLARYCARE to get proiority. That allowed the atrocities in Bosnia to go on for 4 more years.

Hitchens recalls the FIRST HAND account of Les Aspin telling him the exact same thing. His hands were tied because Hildabeast was in the way.

Now she turns arounds and tried to claim credit for Bosnian Peace, even though she couldn’t care less about anyone when her Healtcare plan was still going on.

[dirtboy]

Is there no such thing as shame? Is there no decency at last?

C'mon, Hitch, you already know the answer to this one when it comes to the Clintons. As you so succinctly put it nine years ago - you cannot eat enough to vomit enough when it comes to those two.

I opposed the Kosovo intervention because it was not a US national interest, but to think that Clinton carried out action in Bosnia and Kosovo for anything other than political expediency is simply not supported by the historical record.

[Hexenhammer]

wow, that is an amazing article. really eye opening.

[txrangerette]

Congratulations and thanks for the laughs!

You have created a first rate piece of work.

Now it needs to be recorded and played endlessly...

[The_Republican]

Send it to Limbauh - maybe Paul Shanklin will use it. Funny as hell!

[Shermy]

The way he writes it,

it absolves the Europeans for non-action on their own part.

[dirtboy]

And it was their backyard. Not ours.

[okie01]

but to think that Clinton carried out action in Bosnia and Kosovo for anything other than political expediency is simply not supported by the historical record.

Politically, Kosovo was a home run -- effectively distracting the easily distracted MSM. Instead of lingering on issues like a.) Impeachment, b.) the Cox Report and c.) Juanita Broaddrick, they had a "war" to cover.

Word has it that, while in Egypt on her (and Chelsea's) world tour, it was Hillary who issued Bill his marching orders. "Bomb them", she purportedly said.

And so were the Serbs put in the gunsights -- for political expediency, at the behest of she who would be President.

[gibsosa]

OMG, I am laughing so hard I can’t breathe!!! Bwahahahhahaa!!!

[bt_dooftlook]

IIRC, the Bosnian campaign was begun without Congressional approval; I don’t think the UN was “consulted” either...

[okie01]

IIRC...

As, indeed, you do.