In a speech given last week, Hillary Clinton recalled a time when she was sent to Bosnia during her term as First Lady. When answering a question from a Philadelphia Daily News reporter, Clinton described the trip as she was arriving in Bosnia.

“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.”

Well, it didn’t exactly happen like that, and recent video footage has surfaced to prove it.

The video shows Mrs. Clinton getting off of the plane, walking across the tarmac, and then standing talking to several soldiers and people. They did not appear to be rushed, or under any type of fire.

When asked about the video footage and her previous account of the trip, Mrs. Clinton described her misstatement as a “minor blip.” She went on to say that

“I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said.

She then went on to tell the story again, this time changing to story to what “she remembers” about the trip.

“Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire — that’s not what I was told,” she told the newspaper.

“I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left. Now that’s my memory of it.”

Now clearly, this sounds much different than her original recollection of the story. So why the difference? Did she intentionally stretch the truth in order to help push her supposed foreign policy experience?

Clinton has mentioned the sniper fire at least twice in other campaign speeches, including one in December in Iowa, just before the Iowa caucus. Now, can you misspeak about the trip at least 3 times and it not be on purpose? I don’t think that you can.

This story sounds much like her complete exaggeration of her Ireland trip, where she continues to say that she was involved in bringing peace to Ireland. This was proven false as well, although she was there, she had nothing really to do with the policies that brought about the peace. She was simply there as a good gesture.

So, once again, the Clinton campaign is showing that they will say and do most anything it takes in order to prove her “35 years of experience” that the campaign continues to hype. It is slowly been proven though, that 8 of those 35, which Clinton says is legitimate experience, is being shot down left and right. I for one am glad to see that people are calling her bluff here and we are getting the real story about her so called “experience”.

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