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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hillary on the Front Lines in Bosnia (Video)
So it turns out that Hillary's trip to Bosnia was only a little dangerous. It still takes guts to go into a war zone (watch the video). Time's Joe Klein: "And — and the fact is that they were told that there was — that they had to take evasive action because of sniper fire, one of those precipitous landings that a lot of us have — have taken, but, on the ground, there was obviously no problem."
FACTHUB, 3/25/08:Hillary recently misspoke about her trip to Bosnia. She accurately describes the trip in her book, Living History:
‘Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac…’ “Security conditions were constantly changing in the former Yugoslavia, and they had recently deteriorated again. Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find. … We were then off to the fortified American base at Tuzla, where over two thousand American, Russian, Canadian, British, and Polish soldiers were encamped in a large tent city.” [Living History, p. 343]
"I made a mistake. I have a different memory. That happens. I'm human. For some people that's a revelation."
