Bill Clinton says media overreacted to Bosnia flap

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: April 11, 2008
Bill Clinton says media overreacted to Bosnia flap

(CNN) — Bill Clinton strongly defended his wife Thursday over the recent coverage surrounding her 1996 Bosnia trip claims, saying the media acted as if she'd "robbed a bank."

"I got tickled the other day, a lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me, 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 said at a campaign event in Boonville, Indiana Thursday afternoon. "You would have thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this," he added. "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."

Controversy surrounded Clinton after video footage showed she did not land "under sniper fire" during her 1996 trip to Bosnia, despite making that claim on several occasions — most recently during a mid-morning address on March 17. Clinton later said she "misspoke" about the trip, and attributed the exaggerations to exhaustion. "I have been in the public eye for many, many years, and this is something that I think happens to anybody," Clinton also said of the exaggeration which served to raise questions anew about her candor.

But speaking Thursday, Bill Clinton said his wife was justified in characterizing the landing as dangerous.

"Let me just tell you, the president of Bosnia and General 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," the former President added Thursday. "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."

Responding to the former president's comments, Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said, "Senator Clinton appreciates her husband standing up for her, but this was her mistake and she takes responsibility for it."

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[dkf]

1. Bill says he sent his wife to get killed. Great job Bill!

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. Maybe so...

Maybe it is an over reaction to notice and take issue with a politician not telling the truth...

[hisownpetard]

3. Are we to believe that, because they were in danger, Hillary had to go up to the bullet-proof part

of the ploane, leaving her daughter, Chelsea, behind and unprotected - and that's ok with Bill??

Oh, mama!

[EFerrari]

4. Okay. Now let's talk about Colombia! n/t

[stray cat]

5. He basically said she is old and her memory isn't great when she's tired

[stellanoir]

7. "It's 3 am. . .and the phone is ringing. . ."

heartwarming to know that she'll make shit up.

/sarcasm

[damntexdem]

6. Hey, let's go after the real culprit:

it was that young girl who have Hillary the poem -- that girl was the one who really overreacted. If it weren't for that girl, HRC would have the nomination!

;-)

[HereSince1628]

8. Put the big dog in the garage so he'll quit barking at shadows...

[Ezana]

9. Bill said, "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something

Bill said, "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."

Yeh, at that age, you might forget what happened but you do not remember something that did not happen. Or do you ???

[HereSince1628]

10. Can't say because I'm not there yet.

But, frankly, Bill has NO CLUE about how information exchange has changed since the time he thought he could get away with arguing blow-jobs weren't sex because of the meaning of a verb of being.