The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated - that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day.
Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.
"I was surprised when I heard this," Bicakcic said, referring to Clinton's assertion that she braved snipers upon landing, ducking and sprinting to military vehicles.
Bicakcic, asked if she feared any threat of violence that day, said she felt just the opposite.
"No," she said, speaking at her home in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. "I was just excited. I wanted to look [Clinton] in the eye and say, 'Thank you.' "
And Clinton, she said, seemed far more interested in her poem than in dashing for shelter.
"She was really listening," Bicakcic recalled. "She was drinking in every word of my poem."
Her poem begins with the words, "Peace has come."
For me the first line of her poem says it all.
Wow! This thing just could not get any uglier for Hillary.
But if it does you know I will post about it here.
thanks for blogging on this....the Media has moved on....poor girl- reallly rude to "Disremember " her....
ReplyDelete( funny she was able to remember it properly for the book.....HER own book...)