How does one ever forget the circumstances - a first - of threat to not only your own life, but to your child's life, while on a trip, any place, any time?
According to a CBS News Blog (Horserace) report:
March 24, 2008 Clinton's Bosnia Trip Claims Scrutinized by Brian Montopoli
...Attkisson has now written her own take on the events, which has just gone up over at the Couric & Co. blog. There, Attkisson reports that while the trip was dangerous - it was "easy to imagine we may be narrowly escaping enemy bullets," she writes – "we had no known incidents of enemy fire on our aircraft."
"To be sure, it was not the 'safest' trip for a First Lady to take: there were serious risks in traveling to Bosnia, even for the President's wife under the vigilant protection of the US military," she concludes. "It took some guts for her to go. But I don't recall, and did not note, any close calls on this trip with sniper fire or any other dangers."
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/politics/horserace/entry3963241.shtml
March 24, 2008, 12:14 PM Not The Safest Trip, But No Sniper Fire Posted by Sharyl Attkisson
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/couricandco/entry3962828.shtml
If Attkisson's account is accurate, and there were known dangers prior to the Bosnia trip, thus dangerous and it wasn't the 'safest' trip for a First Lady to take, and there were serious risks in traveling to Bosnia, even for the President's wife under the vigilant protection of the US military - wasn't the First Daughter, Chelsea, placed in harm's way?
Attkisson continues to give details which raise even further questions about mommy Hillary Clinton's judgement and parental responsibility:
Attkisson:
Due to the possibility of sniper fire, our pilots used what we were told are "assault take-offs and landings." In short, the climb and descent are very fast, and very steep to minimize exposure to hostile fire on the ground.
It's exciting and frightening and, in the midst of it all, wearing our helmets and bulletproof vests, it's easy to imagine we may be narrowly escaping enemy bullets.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/politics/horserace/entry3963241.shtml
Was Chelsea wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest during the takeoffs or landings?
Wasn't Chelsea placed in potentially so dangerous a situation as to be targeted and even killed by sniper fire?
Critics of Clinton's faulty recall now are missing the far larger point than her faulty memory about coming under direct sniper fire.
According to no less than the forementioned CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson in the article Not The Safest Trip, But No Sniper Fire - the Press was aware of the dangers of a trip that was not the 'safest' trip for a First Lady to take...
Attkisson further states:
Due to the possibility of sniper fire, our pilots used what we were told are "assault take-offs and landings." In short, the climb and descent are very fast, and very steep to minimize exposure to hostile fire on the ground.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/couricandco/entry3962828.shtml
If it wasn't the 'safest' trip for the First Lady, it wasn't the 'safest' trip for the First Lady's daughter.
If there was the possibility of sniper fire to put the First Lady's life in danger, there was the same possibility of sniper fire to put the First Daughter's life in danger.
Wonder whether anyone will ask Chelsea now what she thinks of a father and a mother who would permit her to accompany one or the other on a trip where it was known there could be "possibility of sniper fire" that might put her life at risk.
Will Chelsea face any question by anyone about whether or not she was among those who wore as CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson says in the article Not The Safest Trip, But No Sniper Fire - helmets and bullet proof vests?
Hey Chelsea, as First Daughter you accompanied your mother to Bosnia, right? Were you or your mother wearing a helmet or bullet proof vest? Your mother was aware at some point that there could be danger and the possibility of sniper fire in such a trip to Bosnia, right? Before landing, perhaps. Or when reporters began putting on helmets and bullet proof vests? Were you aware, Chelsea, a sniper's bullet could rifle through your skull, killing you dead? What do you think of that and of your mother for knowingly placing your life in danger?
Most observors recognize faulty recall can happen to the best of the best. To forget there were military reports about the dangers prior to the trip or while on the airplane going into Bosnia, and not to mention now a report was available beforehand - that isn't faulty memory. That's hide the facts from the public by a story of faulty memory about direct sniper fire and maybe nobody will ask what you knew BEFORE taking the trip. Maybe nobody will ask why you would place your own daughter at risk of death or bodily harm, irreversible bodily harm.
Even more damning are the words of Howard Wolfson according to the Attkisson report of what was said during a media 'conference call:'
Update: In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson answered questions about Clinton's assertions, allowing that it is possible she "misspoke."
Wolfson: "The facts are clear from contemporaneous news accounts that she was entering a potentially dangerous situation. She has written about this before, she has talked about this before and there you have it. Now, is it possible that in the most recent instance in which she discussed this that she misspoke, with regards to the exit from the plane, but there's no question that I hope everyone is clear about this in the reporting, there is no question if you look at these contemporaneous accounts that she was going to a potential combat zone, that it was by the front lines and the first person since Eleanore Roosevelt to do that and she was going into a hostile military environment."
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/couricandco/entry3962828.shtml
The media is complicit now by not asking Hillary Clinton what military reports were available to her and obviously the Press before the Bosnia trip that would reveal she "was going to a potential combat zone... by the front lines, and the first person since Eleanore Roosevelt... going into a hostile military environment."!!
Outing faulty memory of being under direct sniper fire is nothing more than a cover-up of the irresponsibility of a mother taking her child to a "potential combat zone... front lines... hostile military environment."
Nobody else is asking: If the trip was in any way beforehand known to have even the potential of danger to your own daughter, Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton, why would you take your own daughter on the trip?
OK, go yourself, have "some guts to go" (as Attkisson relates) yourself. But don't take your daughter to "a potential combat zone... front lines... hostile military environment."
Would even the political you, as a mother, stoop so low as to tout years later, that you took your own daughter to a dangerous location and got off the airplane under any kind of sniper fire - all to prove what?
That you've faced danger enough to be seen as a commander-in-=chief? You were the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go to a "hostile military environment."
What about your daughter? Does she have the skills to face danger too because she was not in the 'safest' location in the world as a child, taken there by her mother?
Really, what other mother could ever trust you on anything, now.
If you could put your own daughter at risk, knowingly, to suit your own selfish purposes, whatever they were at the time, and whatever they are now, what is there to believe about your motivations, but the lowest of the low.
And who is to believe the motivations of a mainstream media, all of the media, that suppresses the fact Bosnia was "a potential combat zone," but you took your daughter there anyway.
(Net the Truth Online)
March 24, 2008, 1:14 PM
Clinton's Bosnia Trip Claims Scrutinized
Posted by Brian Montopoli|
A 12-year-old report by CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson has been making the rounds following scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's claim that she and her party landed "under sniper fire" and were told to "run to our cars" during a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Clinton also said there was "no greeting ceremony."
Attkisson's report seems to contradict Clinton's assertion. In it, Clinton is seen waving as she arrives in Bosnia. She is greeted by the country's acting president as well as an eight-year-old girl. You can watch the report by clicking on the video box at left.
On Sunday, the Washington Post wrote that there are "numerous problems with Clinton's version of events," which have been challenged by the comedian Sinbad, who accompanied her on the trip. "A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the first lady," writes the Post.
Attkisson has now written her own take on the events, which has just gone up over at the Couric & Co. blog. There, Attkisson reports that while the trip was dangerous – it was "easy to imagine we may be narrowly escaping enemy bullets," she writes – "we had no known incidents of enemy fire on our aircraft."
"To be sure, it was not the 'safest' trip for a First Lady to take: there were serious risks in traveling to Bosnia, even for the President's wife under the vigilant protection of the US military," she concludes. "It took some guts for her to go. But I don't recall, and did not note, any close calls on this trip with sniper fire or any other dangers."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/24/politics/horserace/entry3963241.shtml
