besides...what makes you think they'll be in their own bed(s) @ 3am....anyways.
Posted on 04/11/2008 12:14:19 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite
Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia tale 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago.
In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like "she'd robbed a bank" for confusing the facts.
The New York senator had repeatedly described a harrowing scene in Tuzla, Bosnia, in which she and her daughter, Chelsea, had to run for cover as soon as they landed for a visit in 1996. Video footage of the day instead showed a peaceful reception in which an 8-year-old girl greeted the first lady.
Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that she got the facts wrong in retelling the tale. Bill Clinton's inaccuracies don't involve long-ago memories, but misstatements about how his wife has handled the story.
THE SPIN:
"A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me," Bill Clinton said in Boonville, Ind. "But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.
"Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up," the former president continued. "Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and Gen. Wesley Clark — who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way — both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.
"Now I say that because what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops," he said. "And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you would of thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they all carried on about this. And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night, too."
THE FACTS:
Bill Clinton has many of the facts wrong.
His wife didn't make the sniper fire claim "one time late at night when she was exhausted." She actually told the story several times, including during prepared remarks on foreign policy delivered the morning of March 17.
It's also not true that she "immediately apologized for it." Clinton has never apologized for the comments and only acknowledged that she "misspoke" a week after the March 17 speech when video of her peaceful tarmac reception emerged.
It's also not true that she was the "first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone" — a claim that Hillary Clinton has also made when talking about the trip. Pat Nixon traveled to Saigon during the Vietnam war and Barbara Bush went to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.
The trip also was not in 1995, but 1996.
Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer responded to the former president's remarks Friday by saying, "Senator Clinton appreciates her husband standing up for her, but this was her mistake and she takes responsibility for it."
She's also told her husband to quit talking about it.
"Hillary called me and said 'You don't remember this. You weren't there, let me handle it.' I said, 'Yes ma'am,'" Bill Clinton, who was in Indiana campaigning for his wife Friday, told reporters.
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By Nedra Pickler
Again, I say his arrogance made him come out and chastise everyone for questioning the lie.
Can’t stop these two from digging, an ya?
Right you are, MrB! And he is usually brilliant at trying to take your mind off the real issue (she lied) by “loading up the joint” with excuses. But even some of the Libs are getting tired of his game. Game, Set, Match, Billary.
“.....they were covered by Apache helicopters”
They were the only thing hiding her thighs from view.....
LOLOL
You are awful busy linking all these duplicate threads today!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000137/posts?page=3#3
LOLOLOL
You will notice the moderators locked my thread. I just now noticed that Norms Revenge beat me to it by a couple minutes.
Now here’s another thread. Same source as mine and Norms. And overall... is this thread #7 or 8 regarding Bill’s feeble attempt to explain his wife’s lie?
Ahh well. If FR had not screwed over their own search functions, then we would not have all these duplicates.
Excellent, Rummyfan. The Clinton’s are pros at parsing the English language. eg: “regret” for “sorry” - “mis-spoke” for “out-and-out lied”
is for IS!
Ah c’mon....if we’re going to post every lie from a Clinton, you’ll need to start your own WEBSITE!
The search function works just fine, but most searchers have forgotten the KISS method and try for the entire title. Using one or two likely words tends to get results.
My bad. I didn’t see the other thread(s) I got too excited in my attempt to expose the Clintons to the masses....once again.
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