The 'fact check' from the WaPo On Clinton's Bosnia trip is bullshit

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wonderful post--and could use some help out there please.

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Topic subject The 'fact check' from the WaPo On Clinton's Bosnia trip is bullshit
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5218599, The 'fact check' from the WaPo On Clinton's Bosnia trip is bullshit
Posted by bigtree on Sun Mar-23-08 07:20 AM

The post which is so popular here today points to ONE stop on the trip. All of the charges of lying from Hillary Clinton are ignoring the fact that she made SEVERAL stops on that trip.

After that landing in which she was greeted by locals and before the USO show that night, Clinton also visited, via armored helicopter, two front-line posts (Task Force Eagle Base, where the picture with the little girl was snapped, was the force HQ). I don't believe Sinbad and Sheryl Crow went with her on that day-trip.


This is the Clinton campaign response:


Bosnia

The Obama campaign has resorted to mocking Hillary's trip to Bosnia in 1996, belittling it as a U.S.O. tour and saying there was no danger. But Hillary toured the frontlines of the international peacekeeping mission. CNN reported:

At a second outpost, Camp Bedrock, Mrs. Clinton visited a M.A.S.H. unit, the only full-service U.S. Army hospital in Bosnia. The three-hour tour of the frontlines of the international peacekeeping mission were filled with the gritty reality of a military operation, a far cry from traditional first lady photo opportunities, and Mrs. Clinton seemed more than comfortable with that. CNN, 3/25/99

A day later, the Charleston Gazette reported that "Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday…This trip to Bosnia marks the first time since Roosevelt that a first lady has voyaged to a potential combat zone…"


The dishonesty in this attack is astounding, considering the charges are being made as a measure of CLINTON'S credibility.



Then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton greets U.S. soldiers as she arrives at Bedrock Camp, an outpost of the U.S. IFOR contingent, near Tuzla, in this March 25, 1996.