Reformed Hippie

UPDATE: 2:58PM

She what??? Made a mistake???

Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday: “So I made a mistake. That happens. It shows I’m human, which for some people is a revelation.”

I have been overseas several times and I can generally remember what I did at each airport. And if I had landed with bullets flying all around that incident would be emblazoned on my brain. To say she made a mistake is being charitable. She just outright lied.

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This video says it all… she claims that her trip to Bosnia was more eventful than it was. Shock. What a surprise. Right. She claims that the welcoming ceremony for the March 25, 1996, arrival in Tuzla was canceled, and she had to run from the airplane into an airport building for safety. In fact I wrote about that story back in January (see "Mrs. Clinton… Where’s the beef?"). Everyone then knew she was fabricating the whole thing… now we have proof.

Hillary Clinton received “four Pinocchios” from the Post’s “Factchecker” blog, which said, “Clinton’s tale of landing at Tuzla airport ‘under sniper fire’ and then running for cover is simply not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, combined with contemporaneous news reports, tell a very different story.” The Dayton Peace Accords, which officially ended a year-and-a-half of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was signed in December 1995. So by the time of Clinton’s March 1996 visit, the war itself had been over for three months. At best, she landed in a “potential” combat zone. And at the time, the New York Times described Hillary’s tour as follows:

Hillary Rodham Clinton sought today to build the morale of families of United States troops on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia as she opened an eight-day European good-will tour.

Note the phrase “peacekeeping duty”. But that does not stop the Clinton campaign from spinning on its head. Earlier today, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said that “it is possible” that Sen. Clinton “misspoke” when referring to her trip Bosnia.

How about lied? That’s a better word.

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