Posted on 04/11/2008 1:56:34 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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 ...
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—”for confusing the facts.”
there are one of two problems - or maybe two problems - or maybe many many problems with the Clinton Family and relatives.
The Clintons are liars or have serious mental problems.
The Obama’s have their own character and moral problems - deeply imbedded bias.
And the media has their own agenda!
And Republican and Conservatives eat each other.
actually its “Webs ugly ass daughter”
That is fer sure”UGLY”
I'm just certain he was wagging his finger at this point.
He keeps getting cranky with the media, they're gonna really humiliate him.
I wish I knew how she got my cellphone number, though. She won't leave me alone.
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How old do you have to be to run for president again?
clinton is shocked! He is so used to the press defending his and his wife's bold faced lies that he doesn't know what to do when they turn on them.
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