Clinton “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
Wow! Look at that heavy sniper fire! I guess she mixed running with her head down, with stooping down to kiss this girl. It’s ok, Hillary, we know you just only A “MISstatement”
I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. But it was a moment of great pride for me to visit our troops, not only in our main base as Tuzla, but also at two outposts where they were serving in so many capacities to deactivate and remove landmines, to hunt and seek out those who had not complied with the Dayton Accords and put down their arms, and to build relationships with the people that might lead to a peace for them and their children.
here is the rest from Attytood about it. She is so full of shit.
This afternoon, in the session with Daily News editorial writers and reporters (and some Inquirer staffers as well) in a conference room at the Daily News and Inquirer Building, I asked the presidential candidate about these discrepancies and also showed her a copy of the photo — at the top of this post — of her on the tarmac that day.
She was quick to answer, jumping in before I was fully finished with the question. Here’s here response in its entirety:
“Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire — that’s not what I was told. I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left, Now that’s my memory of it.
I followed-up, noting that the episode has raised questions about her credibility on foreign policy. She responded:
“No, I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. you know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.”
She can’t even get help from her traveling companion, Sinbad.
I think the only ‘red-phone’ moment was: ‘Do we eat here or at the next place.
Great visual. Her MisStatement was printed in her speech on her website. D-OH.
She also said these missyhit words on, what, four different occasions?
Does Hil have alzheimer’s too?
Hilary the reptilian lied! She got caught, what else has she lied about…the video tape speaks. Her claim to speak “millions of words” everyday….doesnt get it. If there were any possibility she would be in any danger, would she have dragged Chelsea into the fire!
I can think of more than 4000 men and women who wished being under fire was a “minor blip”. Completely loathesome.
I honestly think she likes roast baby.
I think we need Arlen Specter to investigate how many gunmen there were.
The tragic part of this is that she has probably convinced herself it’s true. Although how she justifies taking her teenaged daughter into a fire zone has got to be a real feat of mental gymnastics. But then, she voted to send a lot of teenagers into a fire zone didn’t she? And 4000 of them actually got killed.
And she denied Sinbad’s account. So she’s a serial mis-speaker, I guess.
The thing about all of this mis-speaking is that this Tuzla event is something of the center of her claim to have more foreign policy experience than Obama, and why she is ready to be Commander In Chief now. Since her most dramatic example of all of this experience is gone, this ought to be ready for a few news cycles of what else she has mis-spoken on.
anon,
NICE reference! I wonder if there was any magic snipers out there
What is it with Democrats and their poor memories? Bill Clinton remembered black churches burning in Arkansas, John Kerry remembered spending Christmas in Cambodia, Barack Obama can’t remember his pastor of 20 years being a racist, and now Hillary Clinton remembers parachuting into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne.
And John McCain remembers the first organism crawling out of the primordial ooze. OK, he really does remember that.
spare us Grex. George Bush forgot about his DUI
Romney forgot that he DIDN’T march with King
Huckabee forgot that the Grand Canyon wasn’t created 5000 years ago
Hannity forgot he supported and was good friends with a Neo Nazi
blah, blah….
Hey, I deliberately left out Al Gore remembering creating the internet, and Kucinich seeing a UFO, and you come back with that DKos tripe? Come on DV, we’re trying to raise the bar here. You lost me on the last one too – who’s a Neo Nazi?
raise the bar? by dumping on Dems…funny
I could have gone on about how Gingrich left his ailing wife for his other one and forgot that while he sought impeachment for Clinton
I could have even said the same about McCain but I thought twice.
I even considered mentioning the 3 or 4 pedophiles, cheaters, racists,
ahhhh you get the point.
but I didn’t, only because I was trying to raise the bar
in the end, they all “forget” or “misspeak”
hence my Breaking News bulletin that Obama is still a politician
At least Geek’s comment was funny. The point was that all the ones I cited were deliberate mis-statements in campaign speeches or public statements by Dem candidates. Besides, wasn’t Mitt Romney’s statement that he believed his father had marched with King, and not himself? Even when you get it right, you still get it wrong.
Romney mispoke about so much it’s hard to keep track
Oh yeah, and she also has 35 years of experience…….NOT!!!!!!
G, I think Hillary is too old to have been in the military during WWII.
You ought to delete the Gore comment. He never said it. Doesn’t stop the GOP from pretending he did, of course.
Al,
I disagree, it helps dilute anything relevant Grex tries to say actually. I sort of like it hanging out there. It’s typical of his brand and when it comes down to it all he can bring to the table.
Try reading harder, Al. I only mentioned the Gore and Kucinich mythologies because they’re parallel to the Bush DUI mythology. Just because they’re repeated a million times by wingnuts or moonbats doesn’t make them gospel truth.
Hey, I almost forgot about Hillary’s claim that she was named in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary! The Clintons are pathological liars, and that’s all there is to it.
bush’s dui is a myth? wow dude, you look smarter and smarter with every comment
How can the DUI be a myth if the man himself cops to it?
How can it be a myth if the man cops to it?
(sorry if this is a double post, the first seems to have gotten lost)
Well, I went to Snopes, and I don’t even see it listed. WTF?
Doh! Smoking Gun has it. You score one point, mark your calendar!