Hillary Clinton believes she’s qualified to serve as Commander in Chief of the United States military—and rightly so. Coming off the heels of a freshman Senator, who learned how to lead while on the job, a Washington fixture like Hillary is more than qualified.
Consider her military leadership bona fides:
Lying about combat.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton lied about landing under sniper fire while visiting Bosnia in 1996. Here’s exactly what she said,
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.
She later said that she “misspoke.” For those of us that have been on the receiving end of hostile fire, I’m sure we can understand how a greeting ceremony where she engaged in conversation with a little girl could easily be mistaken for sniper fire.
Lying to the Benghazi families.
Three days after the attacks in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton lied to the families of the fallen when she blamed a video for being responsible for the deaths. Here’s exactly what she said to Tyrone Wood’s father and later to the American people,
We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son.
We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.
When pressed about claims that she blamed the deaths on the video, Hillary (I want to lead America’s military) Clinton said the families were lying and then incoherently blamed the “fog of war.” Apparently she’s read Clausewitz, although it’s more likely that one of her advisers (probably a draft dodger) told her to use that phrase.
Lying about her classified emails.
On March 10, 2015, Hillary Clinton informed the world that although she used a private email server, she did not compromise our nation’s secrets. She clearly articulated,
There is no classified material.
Less than a year later the State Department informed Americans that 22 of her emails were classified “top secret.” True to form, as per her website hillaryclinton.com, she still maintains that “nothing she sent or received was marked classified.”
I’ve previously discussed her “marked classified” statements (here and here), and I’ve explained how she relies entirely on semantics. Suffice to say; Hillary Clinton is a lying liar who is clinically delusional.
Lying about lying.
Remember when she said this in an interview?
You’re asking me to say, ‘Have I ever [lied]?’ I don’t believe I ever have. I don’t believe I ever have. I don’t believe I ever will. I am going to do the best I can to level with the American people,
Honorable mention: Apparently she tried to join the Marines.
Here’s her recounting of the event,
He looks at me and goes, ‘Um, how old are you. And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.
If this story is true (it’s not) I would suggest adding a rejection of Hillary Clinton to the Marine Corps Hymn.
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli;
We fought our country’s battles
By rejecting Hillary
And there you have it folks, the epitome of a military leader: lying, blame shifting, no empathy for the fallen and zero integrity.
Hail to the Chief!