Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia tale

[IsItJustMe]

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....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_bosnia_fact_check

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If the Clintons get in there, tell me how you will know when they are being honest or not.

[Medusa]

1. Misstates?

Nah, he lied. Big diff.

[Leo 9]

4. Miss Peak

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[Leo 9]

7. Miss Poke

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[Leo 9]

12. Miss Tates

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[Saturday]

2. Big Yawn. nt

[meow mix]

3. love how the link is titled "Bill Clinton misstates facts while defending wife's Bosnia story"

misstates facts?
:rofl: :rofl:

[damntexdem]

8. Misreports misstatements?

Equivocates about lies?

[Raven]

5. I'm thinking more and more that he wants her to lose.

Why bring the Bosnia thing up again when it was beginning to go away?

[damntexdem]

10. That or 'I meant to do that.'

'We both wanted her to lose all along, so that's why we did and said what we did.'

;-)

[SurfingAtWork]

11. The more instances like this pop up, the more I'm inclined to agree

I mean I don't think he consciously wants her to loose, but I think that perhaps on an unconscious and primal level he does. Perhaps it has to do with a fear that she could end up eclipsing his presidency?

[damntexdem]

6. That just seems like the perfect thing to do at this juncture.

Can you misstate 'irony'?

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Is he trying to sabotage her campaign?

This issue was slowly dying and now he's got it back dominating the news again. But not only that, he's lying!

You know, everyone talks about how great of a politician Bill is, well I'm starting to wonder. I think he might be as stupid as Bush.

[quantass]

13. k&r