I'm posting this on every Tulza diary today. Yes, I know it is a repeat. I think we are up to about a dozen.

Maybe she was thinking about this day at Camp Bedrock when she misspoke about something that happened 10 years ago:

But the highlight of her trip were visits to two fortified posts outside the U.S. base in Tuzla. Even President Clinton, restricted to the base by bad weather in January, did not see as much of this war-wracked region as Mrs. Clinton did Monday.
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Riflemen rushed to the brush line as the helicopter landed and surrounded her as she walked into the post. Located in a "separation zone," the U.S. outpost nestles between two tree lines. Just months ago, one was Serbian territory, the other Bosnian.

Security was tight - fighter jets accompanied her C-17 cargo plane to Tuzla - but officials said the first lady took no extraordinary risks on the trip.
Lexis - By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press, March 25, 1996

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First Lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton, visited her country's troops at their fortified outposts in north-eastern Bosnia today and said their peacekeeping work was "extraordinary to behold".
Mrs Clinton's helicopter flight to Camp Alicia, home of a mechanised infantry outfit and a combat engineer batallion 15 miles east of Tuzla, took her over burned out villages and farm houses whose roofs had been blown off in the fierce fighting before last December's Paris peace agreement ended the 43 -month-old war in Bosnia.

A machine gun emplacement guarded the entrance of the outposts and marked Bosnian minefields were visible outside its perimeter.
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 After lunch with the troops in a makeshift dining hall surrounded by sandbags, she flew on to Camp Bedrock south of Tuzla to visit an army field hospital.

Mrs Clinton, who later returned to Tuzla for a show starring singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad, said she was "amazed at how much has been accomplished in such a short period of time" by US troops in Bosnia.
Source - Lexis - The Herald (Glasgow), March 26, 1996

Talkleft: I did some research on Lexis Nexis last night

I'm amazed that she took a chopper to a forward MASH unit. Can you believe that? The First Lady of the United States. Can you imagine Laura Bush putting on a flak jacked and heading out to a forward MASH unit. What a brave and wonderful woman.

I hope the Obama folks do keep flailing at this issue. It just spotlights their lack of character and the type of leader Hillary Clinton is.

The US had made a huge commitment to bringing peace, and they decided to send Hillary and Chelsea as a symbol of our committment to peace. That's leadership. That's powerful world class leadership. I find all the nasty innuendo sad and desperate. She put herself in harms way for the cause of peace. Would any of us do the same? I doubt it, but then we are not fit to be a leaders of the free world, are we?

Hillary's Recount, "The Tale of Bosnian Sniper Fire" is outrageous and a breach of the Public Trust or should be. It goes right to the Heart of Credibility and to Character!

Some in the media have gone on to say, "it's no big deal", or this amounts to "silly season." Incredulous!  However, to willfully mislead the public for gain is wrong and should have no place in our politics today and certainly should not be rewarded by a vote of confidence and our votes.  This is an egregious matter.  Further, Politicians should not get a pass from the Media -- to be able to get away with such outrageous distortions, lies and exaggeration. They should be held to a Higher Standard than the rest of us if they want to hold the highest office in the land and to lead America to a better standard of life.   This is what is wrong with our politics of today, a "do and say" anything policy that is allowed to be acceptable when on the otherhand, we raise our children not to lie and steal and cheat.  

In trying to make Barack look "unelectable", by using the Words of Rev. Wright (not Barack's Words), Camp Clinton has adopted a "say and do" anything agenda, "throw the kitchen sink" and the basement too, which was supposed to make them look more "electable".  However, what she accomplished instead by her Bosnia Tale is a Focus on her Words (not her Rev., not her husband, HERS!), which we have discovered to be Exagerrations!   So we are left to Question, what can we believe from her since Nafta turned out not to be true, Ireland is questionnable -- so we wonder what can we believe that comes out of Hillary and Camp Clinton's mouth, and further, what other Misstatements has she Misspoke?

Unfortunately, this race could have been over in Texas, but the Main Stream Media has been silent on telling the American people that if not for the 100,000 Republicans who voted for Hillary, edged on by Rush Limbaugh, Barack would have won Texas. The Republicans also voted for her in Ohio and gave her a substantial margin. This was done not because they have a particular liking for Hillary, but because they want to prolong the race between the Democrats to make John McCain look good, and because they think they can beat Hillary in the Fall. Just watch Pat Buchannan and Joe Scarborough's disingenuous Spin and you will see all their talking points. They are no friend to America or to the Democratic Party.

Here's a Trailer Hillary's "The Tale of Bosnian Sniper Fire" URL:
http://www.youtube.com/...
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Let's say -- "No More Do and Say Anything Politicians!"

You have it right...this issue does embody voters' concern about her truthiness.

Fairly or unfairly !!

Obama has his problems too.. as you point out, but those problems have not broken through voters' radar screen yet.

Fairly or unfairly !!!

For an entire year, Obama LIED about his relationship with Rezko and refused to meet with Chicago reporters until most of the primaries were over and his name appeared in court documents in Rezko's trial.

This time last year, Obama claimed he "barely knew the man."
Now we know that SEN. Obama turned to Rezko for personal financial assistance even knowing he was the target of a federal investigation.

Now we know for months Obama allowed his constituents to live with no heat in rundown housing owned by his big donor - Rezko.

Now we know the media concealed other negative info about Obama until after the primaries were almost over.

What I was going to say...

The more I think about this, the worse it gets. At least from my point of view over the Atlantic.

is that Clinton visited, by helicopter, two FRONT-LINE posts, that same day she landed at Task Force Eagle HQ in Tuzla.  So far as either of us knows, one of those landings is the one she remembers.  There are no films of those landings.

Here is the cached file from the campaign website to show that these were PREPARED SCRIPTED REMARKS

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:ruj YQd5MAj0J:www.hillaryclinton.com/news/sp eech/view/%3Fid%3D6553+%22I+remember+lan ding+under+sniper+fire.%22+%2B+%22hillar yclinton.com%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&am p;cd=2&gl=us.

thank you for that.  This does fall into the category of "tall tale", not serial liar, and I thank you for that.

...but Bill's autobiography gave me pause. For all the passion and engagement, there is a clear cut and almost psychological refusal to engage with unpleasant truths.

Hear, hear! PLUS, a legitimate democratic process too.

The nominee has yet to be determined.  Over 'there', the support is for only one person.

I remember completely the 'I'll vote for McCain or not at all' meme that was widely spewed there when Clinton was still the frontrunner and Obama was behind.

Funny how folks who opined about it being a matter of personal 'ethics' suddenly have nothing good to say about anyone who doesn't kiss a particular candidate's ring.

Did kos send you here?  Did he email you.  Is this some plan to try to get Rev Wright off the news.  Are you some kind of democratic troll who belongs to a group that puts up alomst the identical thread every hour.

lets talk about a Michelle Obama who can barely afford private school and music classes for her kids.  i am sure all those working class voters feel her pain.  It must be rough living in their 1.6 million dollar house and sending her kids to private school.  Well at least she is finally Proud to be an american.  

OK now i have snarked let me say this.  The more BO and his crowd go negative on HRC the more his favorability numbers will go down as well.  And come on he has very little other to present other than i am really good looking and popular.  Another couple of weeks of BO throwing mud and his unfavorables will be in the 60's.  I know you think you are help you candidate but if you could see how you are really hurting BO chances in nov maybe you could stop this internet stalking.

david

Obviously, it's not a smear.  You'll likely never get an admission from anyone here that, at best, she's stretched the truth a bit on the Tuzla landing.

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 welcomin