In reference to your article on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent off-the-cuff remarks regarding her Bosnian trip of 1996, you fail to reference the many news stories of the time which confirm the dangerous combat zone, and the fact that she was being "protected by sharpshooters..." and "by Black Hawk helicopter..." nor do you reference her previously printed and documented account of the same trip, where she acknowdeged meeting with the children shown in the video which is making the rounds on YouTube.
In her book, Clinton states, "Security conditions were constantly changing in the former Yugoslavia, and they had recently deteriorated again. 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."
A news account from the Washington Post on 3/26/1996 stated that the trip was in a dangerous combat zone: "This trip to Bosnia marks the first time since Roosevelt that a first lady has voyaged to a potential combat zone. During World War II, Roosevelt toured the devastated streets of London and the southwestern Pacific, bringing cheer to U.S. troops."
Likewise, The Charleston Gazette reported on the same date, "Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday to deliver a personal 'thank you, thank you, thank you' to U.S. troops. 'They're making a difference,' the first lady said of the 18,500 Americans working as peacekeepers in Bosnia. Mrs. Clinton became the first presidential spouse since Eleanor Roosevelt to make such an extensive trip into what can be considered a hostile area, though others have visited hot spots…"
The fact that she made this trip, among hundreds of others, continues to point to her extensive foreign policy experience.
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