According to The New York Post, Bosnia is not happy about Senator Clinton’s story about being in “imminent danger” from sniper fire, when she visited US troops in Bosnia. Bosnia’s former acting President Ejup Ganic said, “It’s an exaggeration. No one was firing. There were no shots fired.”
“It was a horrible lie,” said 29-year-old Midhat Efendira.
Like most Bosnians, he expressed a deep appreciation of Bill Clinton for his role in ending the war. But he found Hillary Clinton’s remarks intolerable.
“It was a low blow,” he said. “She did it to gain sensational publicity.”
Efendira said that Bosnians are closely following the US presidential race and that Hillary’s remarks have damaged the formerly untouchable Clinton name in the country.
Well that was easy! Didn’t take much to turn on the White House couple credited with killing a heck of a lot of Christians on the Bosnian Muslims’ behalf.
So when Bosnians lie that Serbs are shooting at them from all directions, we’re supposed to believe it. But it’s no good when somebody else does it. This calls for a Clintonism of the Day:
But it Worked for the Bosnians!
“It was a horrible lie. It was a low blow. She did it to gain sensational publicity.”
– Bosnian Muslim citizen Midhat Efendira, on Hillary’s claim to have ducked sniper fire upon arriving in Bosnia in 1996
More from the NY Post:
Some Bosnians contrasted Clinton’s jaunt to the truly dangerous visits paid by now-deceased former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller in 1994.
In an effort to call attention to Sarajevo’s plight, the two female heads of state donned flak jackets and were driven throughout the heart of the bullet-riddled city at the height of the conflict.
Two days after their visit, 69 people were killed in a mortar attack on a central market.
So here again, we have Bosnians praising Muslim leaders above the Western ones who fought the Muslims’ war for them, the praise in this case being for the Muslim leaders’ greater risk-taking while propagandizing on their behalf.
Gee, this wouldn’t be the 1994 market attack they’re referring to, would it:
The fact that a U.N. classified report concluded that Bosnian Muslim forces had committed the Markale marketplace massacre seems of no consequence to Ms. Amanpour. Deutsche Presse-Agentur of June 6, 1996, wrote: “For the first time, a senior U.N. official had admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Muslims for the Feb. 1994 massacre of Muslims at the Sarajevo market.”
Christiane Amanpour has yet to inform her viewers of this fact, but continues to allow them to believe the massacre was a Serbian atrocity which United States and NATO used as an excuse to drop more than 6,000 tons of bombs on the Bosnian Serbs.
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