[Peace-discuss] Allergic to truth & justice

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

an expression of horror is so out-of-character that it seems
unlikely.  Looks more like she is stifling a burp...

...onions...really need to cut back on the onions...


On 10/08/11 8:46, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>   Hillary Clinton explains photo: ‘It was my allergy’
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> Hillary Clinton allergic cough
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>     In Rome, Clinton blames spring allergy for that hand-over-mouth moment
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> By Andrea Vogt <http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/author,724,andrea-vogt>
> LAST UPDATED 4:06 PM, MAY 5, 2011
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> <http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/78568,people,news,hillary-clinton-explains-osama-bin-laden-video-reaction-photo-it-was-my-allergy>
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> The now iconic image of President Obama and his top team apparently 
> watching the unfolding raid on Osama bin Laden's compound live in the 
> White House situation room on Sunday begs several questions in the 
> light of the news – courtesy of CIA director Leon Panetta – that the 
> live video feed from Abbottabad was cut when the US Navy Seals entered 
> the house in which they found and killed the al-Qaeda leader.
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> What were they watching if that was the case? And why did secretary of 
> state *Hillary Clinton* have her hand over her mouth in what appeared 
> to be horror?
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> We now have an answer to the second question. Hillary Clinton was 
> asked that very thing at a press conference today in Rome. She called 
> the satellite feed from Abbottabad "the most intense 38 minutes ever". 
> But what prompted her to put her hand over her mouth?
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> "I have no idea what any of us were looking at that particular 
> millisecond when the picture was taken," she said. "I am somewhat 
> sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring 
> allergic coughs."
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> "So it may have no great meaning whatsoever," she added.
>
> Clinton addressed other issues during her press conference in Rome, 
> but that looks likely to remain the most memorable answer.
>
> Was the US considering a Pakistan-style blitz against Gaddafi in 
> Tripoli, one reporter asked. Clinton did not answer directly, but said 
> the UN Security Council resolution was being followed, and the Contact 
> Group on Libya meeting today in Rome was hammering out details of a 
> "financial mechanism" and non-lethal assistance to the rebel 
> government in Libya, currently mired in a standoff with Gaddafi's 
> military.
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> On the matter of Osama bin Laden's departure, Clinton warned that the 
> United States and its allies would continued to "crack down and where 
> necessary kill or capture" those directing actions against US and 
> allied troops.
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> "The battle with al-Qaeda does not end with one death," Clinton said. 
> "The international criminals who indiscriminately murder innocent 
> people will be brought to justice."
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> Asked whether or not the US had /intended/ to kill Bin Laden, Clinton 
> said he was "a sworn enemy of the US, a danger to all humanity and a 
> clear target for the US and its allies for the last 10 years. From 
> London to Madrid, Istanbul to Bali, he left thousands dead and 
> maimed". She noted that the majority of his victims were Muslims.
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> Read more: 
> http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/78568,people,news,hillary-clinton-explains-osama-bin-laden-video-reaction-photo-it-was-my-allergy#ixzz1a99oknLB 
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