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In a speech on Iraq policy delivered Monday at George Washington University, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalled facing “sniper fire” on her 1996 trip to Bosnia to visit U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission. But reporters traveling with the then-First Lady made no reference to any “sniper fire” at the time, and pictures of Clinton arriving at the main air base in Tuzla don’t show anyone ducking or covering. Here’s how Clinton began her speech: Good morning. I want to thank Secretary West for his years of service, not only as Secretary of the Army, but also to the...

Lloyd Grove says Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) loyalists "are kicking themselves for cooperating last year with filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum on Inside the Bubble, a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign." "I'm also told that Hillary Clinton partisans are licking their chops to see the film, which 'could end up being the silver bullet that kills Kerry's presidential chances for 2008." The film won't be seen publicly until Thursday, but a press release claims the movie "turns a harsh but deeply revealing mirror on the campaign ... a disorganized, contentious, self-absorbed team that thought they could...

WASHINGTON — Is this another John Kerry flip-flop? Less than three weeks after vowing in defeat to sweep aside partisan bickering, Kerry is slamming the White House for "a right-wing assault on values and ideals that we hold most deeply." In a new four-minute Internet ad on his campaign Web site, Kerry paints a doomsday future based on Bush's recent nods to fill vacated Cabinet posts. "The Cabinet is being remade to rubber-stamp policies that will undermine Social Security, balloon the deficit, avoid real reform in health care and education, weaken homeland security and walk away from critical allies...

I don't believe what I just heard Larry King say. He was talking with President George H.W. Bush about the Swift Boat controversy. President Bush stated that he was more concerned about what Kerry said about Vietnam Veterans 33 years ago. In the course of his comments President Bush noted it was 60 years ago today he was shot down. Larry King said, "I guess you don't forget those kind of things."

"If you can remember the 60's, you didn't live in the 60's" Apparently there was some really, really bad acid going around in Democratic circles towards the end of 1968. First, John Kerry talked about hearing a speech by President Nixon around Christmas of 1968. Then, former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes talked about how, while in office, he helped George W. Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard when Bush enlisted in May of 1968. Only one minor problem with these two stories. Neither Nixon or Ben Barnes held those offices in 1968. Both were inaugurated in January...

MIDI - THIS MAGIC MOMENT Life-changing moment...seared in my memory And every last detail...is so clear to me We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said we should go with care But he said we could not squeal...the whole thing was so surreal Life-changing moment...seared in my memory Wait, am I mistaken? Was it in Jan-u-air-air-air-air-eee Life-changing moment...seared in my memory I killed thirteen hundred...oh, yes, really We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said...