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The Bosnia Brouhaha

The all-seeing eye of YouTube has once again asserted itself, catching Hillary Clinton in an exaggeration of her White House-era visit to Bosnia—a trip that was a bit less harrowing than we were led to believe.

The Clinton campaign has conceded that the candidate may have misspoken, “but there is no question if you look at contemporaneous accounts that she was going to a potential combat zone, that she was on the front lines.” Link

CBS was sufficiently moved by the use of its footage in the YouTube clip to do a follow-up story, confirming the claims of the Internet video:

Here’s the clip that got the ball rolling:

TAGS: bosnia campaign cbs clinton exaggeration sniper video youtube

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By cyrena, March 24 at 8:43 pm #
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“All this experience she’s talking about is partly in her imagination"…

Now, THAT’S diplomatic!!

I’m more inclined to say…

She’s a L-I-A-R!!

GW ain’t got nothin’ on Hillary Clinton…

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By Douglas Chalmers, March 25 at 1:39 am #
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As Sinbad put it: “What kind of president would say, ‘Hey, man, I can’t go ‘cause I might get shot so I’m going to send my wife...oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you.’”

As you may have guessed by now, Sinbad isn’t supporting Clinton for president. He’s an Obama guy....

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By bert, March 25 at 5:33 pm #
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Well, Doug, he is a comedian so I guess he was trying to make a funny.

I read some where else he supposedly said, “I felt safe on that trip.” Yeah, dude. You were protected by the U.S. Military, the same one protecting Hillary and Chelsa.

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By Al Idrisi, March 24 at 6:28 pm #
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Once a Liar, well ya know the rest.

LOL, we got Hilary the commando now, hahahahaha, we got a new female Rambo on the block, I guess that little girl greeting hilary was packing some heat. Those muslim bosnians and their little snipper girls I tell ya, we got to put a stop to it before it spreads all over the Islamic world.

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