Hillary Clinton’s Bosnian Adventure: The untold story

Posted April 2, 2008

Blogger’s Note: Hillary Clinton’s excellent Bosnian adventure is almost out of the news already. But Slate.com’s Christopher Hitchens highlights the even less flattering back story to Hillary’s Indiana Jones tall tale of snipers and foreign policy experience. Liberals are already crying foul…

by Christopher Hitchens

Baltimore — (TFN): The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself.

There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having “misspoken.”) The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.

I remember disembarking at the Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992 after an agonizing flight on a U.N. relief plane that had had to “corkscrew” its downward approach in order to avoid Serbian flak and ground fire. As I hunched over to scuttle the distance to the terminal, a mortar shell fell as close to me as I ever want any mortar shell to fall. The vicious noise it made is with me still. And so is the shock I felt at seeing a civilized and multicultural European city bombarded round the clock by an ethno-religious militia under the command of fascistic barbarians…

Harsher words are yet to come… read the full article on Slate.com….

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Posted by J. Christoph Amberger · Filed Under Politics