Hillary's rather embarrassing recollection of "The Dangerous Boznia Trip"

thunder rising

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:17 PM
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Hillary's rather embarrassing recollection of "The Dangerous Boznia Trip"

Damn, this is really pathetic. I didn't want to see it end like this.

The Video (for whom does the bell toll)

A great opinion on the matter

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tokenlib

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:19 PM
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1. About as dangerous as G.H.W. Bush's trip to the grocery store...

He didn't know what was going on--and apparently she didn't either...

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XemaSab

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:33 PM
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6. God.... idiot didn't know what grocery scanners were

:eyes:

Danger to self...

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KittyWampus

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:34 PM
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7. Hillary has been living in the Washington Bubble too long.

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tabasco

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:20 PM
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2. Pathetic indeed. No better than your run-of-the-mill phony veteran.

HOT LZ!! KEEP HEAD DOWN!! UNDER SNIPER FIRE!! MUST GET TO BASE!!

The woman is morally unfit to be a senator, let alone President.

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thunder rising

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:11 PM
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9. Ha Ha !! I love it!

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ecdab

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:41 PM
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10. Enemy planes...HIT THE DIRT!

What a shining example of courage Hillary is! Alright - that's a bit harsh, but the statements she has made about this "experience" seem to be outlandishly ridiculous.

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BearSquirrel2

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Sat Mar-22-08 10:44 PM
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16. Hillary is actually guilty of what they accused John Kerry of ...

Geeze, if they could Swift Boat John Kerry's honorable service, think what they could do DOCUMENTED FACTS!!!!!

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blm

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:31 PM
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3. Karma.

I don't think the past undermining of so many good Dems over the years has proven to have been worth it to the Clintons, after all.

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Bonobo

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:32 PM
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4. It's sexist. Why? Because if Obama had done it, it would be called for what it is.

A straight up lie to make herself look heroic.

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goclark

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:33 PM
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5. Then who were those people meeting her at the plane?

Darling little girl.

Time to have a sweet kiss on both cheeks from the First Lady.

Everyone looked relaxed.

I would call that...... A greetimg ceremony. :crazy:

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ProSense

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Sat Mar-22-08 06:38 PM
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8. The Pinocchio Test

Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II

"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."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

<...>

The Pinocchio Test

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. Four Pinocchios.

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hogwyld

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Sat Mar-22-08 08:00 PM
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15. What kinds of WMD's is that little girl

hiding under her jacket? Hasn't anyone seen the movie "Screamers"? Maybe Hill was having a flashback.

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suston96

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:48 PM
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11. Check the updates to the Washington Post story.....

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html

UPDATE Friday 6:45 p.m.

Lissa Muscatine, who served as Hilary Clinton's chief speechwriter in 1996 and accompanied her on the Bosnia trip, feels that I have failed to provide a full picture of what took place. She gave me her "vivid recollections" of the arrival in Tuzla, which I quote below:

I was on the plane with then First Lady Hillary Clinton for the trip from Germany into Bosnia in 1996. We were put on a C17-- a plane capable of steep ascents and descents -- precisely because we were flying into what was considered a combat zone. We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla. We were told that a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills surrounding the air strip. From Tuzla, Hillary flew to two outposts in Bosnia with gunships escorting her helicopter.

UPDATE Saturday 8:45 a.m.

Gen. Nash says that I misquoted him in saying he was unaware of any "security threat" to the First Lady. While he was unaware of any "sniper threat," he now tells me there were a couple of "security concerns" that day, which he found out about after returning to his headquarters after greeting Clinton at the airport. There was a "non-specific report" of a possible truck bomb in the area. The military also had information that "some of the communications associated with the First Lady's visit were being monitored."

"In both cases, we took appropriate security action," said Nash, adding that Clinton's visit was not disrupted.

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tabasco

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:55 PM
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12. No defense.

Edited on Sat Mar-22-08 08:01 PM by tabasco

Whatsoever.

1. The statements by Hillary's speechwriter are ridiculous. The C-17 is the workhorse US transport plane. Hillary was flying on one because that is what flew into Tuzla EVERY DAY.

2. Hillary's statement that she ran from the plane with her head down because she was under sniper fire is a LIE.

3. General Nash said there were "security concerns" but no snipers. Where, exactly, does the First Lady travel that there are NO SECURITY CONCERNS?

4. Hillary's statement that the greeting ceremony was canceled due to snipers is a LIE.

Not even a nice try.

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baldguy

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:59 PM
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13. "There might be a threat of sniper fire" is VERY different from "There is sniper fire"

A simple but very important difference that Hillary has forgotten - or never understood - or conflates for political gain.

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Quixote1818

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Sat Mar-22-08 07:59 PM
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14. "Sniper fire" will be what the invention of the internet was to Al Gore

except, in this case, Clinton actually said the words which will be used to demonstrate her falsity.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/22/161812/428/776/482309

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Quixote1818

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Sat Mar-22-08 10:55 PM
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18. Kick

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tabasco

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Sat Mar-22-08 10:44 PM
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17. Late night kick.

:kick:

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