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Galraedia

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Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:32 AM Aug 2014

Hillary Clinton Twists Herself In Knots To Avoid Blaming Israel For UN Bombing [View all]

The fog of war may be more of a Rorschach test, it turns out.

Here's Hillary Clinton, on the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine: "I think if there were any doubt it should be gone by now, that Vladimir Putin, certainly indirectly ... bears responsibility for what happened."

And here's Clinton, on the bombing of a United Nations facility in Gaza: "I'm not sure it's possible to parcel out blame because it's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war."

The two remarks were made less than three weeks apart, and offer a window into how one's view of how the world should be can color how it's seen -- or at least how it's relayed to the public.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/hillary-clinton-israel-gaza-school-bombing_n_5672881.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Yup. n/t progressoid Aug 2014 #1
Putin is the New Hitler Octafish Aug 2014 #2
Excellent recall. JaydenD Aug 2014 #3
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