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(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) A bigger lie Monday, June 09, 2008 While Hillary Clinton's tale of dodging sniper fire in Bosnia turned out to be untrue (Letters, May 25), of more importance and totally ignored is the fact that our involvement in the Bosnian civil war was based on deliberate disinformation in an attempt to support the Bosnian side of the conflict. Bosnia is probably the first time in U.S. history that a first lady was responsible for the bombing of a sovereign nation, in this case, Yugoslavia. It was a decision that was to have a profound impact in the United States, the Balkans and Europe. Gail Sheehy's book, Hillary's Choice, reveals, "After barely speaking to Bill Clinton for about eight months after the final Monica explosion, she called him [Clinton] from North Africa at the height of the Kosovo disturbances and convinced him to bomb Yugoslavia." While Hillary Clinton routinely compared Kosovo to the Holocaust, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel stated in a New York Times article in 1999 that Kosovo was not a genocide. Just as the former first lady's sniper story on Bosnia was a fabrication, the bigger lie that was perpetrated against the Serbian people was the manufactured excuses used to bomb innocent Serbians, based on alleged Serbian atrocities. -- STELLA L. JATRAS, Wormleysburg
