Hillary Clinton has declared proudly that we didn’t lose a single person in Libya.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton committed her second gaffe in as many days on the campaign trail Monday night, claiming that the U.S. “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya during her time as secretary of state.
Clinton made the comment defending her push for regime change in the war-torn North African nation at an Illinois town hall hosted by MSNBC.
“Now, is Libya perfect? It isn’t,” Clinton said. After contrasting her approach toward Libya with the ongoing bloodshed in Syria’s civil war, Clinton said “Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn’t lose a single person … We didn’t have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO.”
I suppose that all hinges on how you define “a single person.” We lost at least four ‘single persons’ or four people on Sept 11, 2012, not a single person. Then there is the matter of location. We knew where they were when they died while Hillary and Obama did nothing (before, during, and after) so they were not “lost.” She didn’t lose them. She left them to die. Totally different.
But at this point, what difference does it make because, to quote Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, “the fact is, that’s in the past.”
And now so is that Clinton quote.
