Hillary Clinton Calls Bosnia Sniper Story A Mistake

Hillary Clinton Calls Bosnia Sniper Story A Mistake

Hillary Clinton calls Bosnia sniper story a mistake
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign occasion on the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, March 24, 2008. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer
GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mentioned on Tuesday she made a mistake when she claimed she had come underneath sniper fire throughout a trip to Bosnia in 1996 while she was first girl.
In a speech in Washington and in a number of interviews last week Clinton described how she and her daughter, Chelsea, ran for cover beneath hostile hearth shortly after her plane landed in Tuzla, Bosnia.
Several news outlets disputed the declare and a video of the trip, showed Clinton strolling from the aircraft, accompanied by her daughter. They have been greeted by a young lady in a small ceremony on the tarmac and there was no sign of stress or any danger.
"I did make a mistake in speaking about it, you know, the last time and lately," Clinton informed reporters in Pennsylvania the place she was campaigning earlier than the state's April 22 major. She stated she had a "completely different reminiscence" about the landing.
"So I made a mistake. That occurs. It proves I'm human, which, you understand, for some individuals, is a revelation."
"This is actually about what policy experience we have now and who's able to be commander in chief. And I'm joyful to place my experience up towards Senator Obama's any day."
Democratic rival Barack Obama's marketing campaign accused Clinton, a New York senator, of mischaracterizing the Bosnia trip and overstating her foreign coverage experience, particularly throughout the eight years when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president.
In a speech in Washington on March 17 Clinton stated of the Bosnia trip: "I remember touchdown underneath sniper hearth. There was presupposed to be some form of greeting ceremony on the airport, but instead we simply ran with our heads right down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
She additionally informed CNN last week: "There was no greeting ceremony and we had been mainly advised to run to our automobiles. Now that is what happened."
Turning to a topic that has dogged Obama, Clinton stated she would not have remained a member of his Chicago church the place the pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made inflammatory comments about racism and the September eleven, 2001 assaults.
"We don't have a alternative in terms of our family members. Now we have a choice with regards to our pastors and the churches we attend," she mentioned. "Given all we now have heard and seen, he wouldn't have been my pastor."
Clinton had previously deflected questions in regards to the matter, saying they should be posed to Obama, who gave an emotional speech last week rejecting Wright's remarks and urging Individuals to maneuver previous their "racial stalemate."
A spokesman for Obama, a senator from Illinois, mentioned Clinton was simply trying to change the subject from the Bosnia story.
"After originally refusing to play politics with this difficulty, it's disappointing to see Hillary Clinton's marketing campaign sink to this low in a transparent effort to distract attention away from the story she made up about dodging sniper hearth in Bosnia," spokesman Bill Burton stated in a statement.
"The truth is, Barack Obama has already spoken out against his pastor's offensive comments and addressed the issue of race in America with a deeply personal and uncommonly trustworthy speech."
Wright, who retired lately, has railed that the September 11 assaults have been retribution for aggressive U.S. foreign coverage, referred to as the federal government the source of the AIDS virus and expressed anger over what he referred to as racist America.
(Modifying by Chris Wilson)
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