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Be mindful of the words you speak: Clinton ‘misspoke’

Section: Politics

Samuel Devon

In March of 96 Hillary Rodham Clinton first lady at the time said she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. She later retracted her misstatement saying it was a “minor blip.” During a speech last Monday on Iraq, she said “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” She wrote “"Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find." According to a written story by the Associated Press at the time there were no extraordinary risks on the trip. It was just another exaggeration by the Clinton campaign, which often cites the goodwill trip with her daughter and several celebrities like Sinbad said, the Obama campaign. "I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," she said. I guess we can just make up stories now. Enough Said.

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