By GEOFF EARLE and CHARLES HURT, Post Correspondents

GEE, WHERE ARE THE BULLETS? Hillary Rodham Clinton is hardly fleeing
snipers on the tarmac in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1996 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4

March 26, 2008 --

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's lies about risking her life
under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia as first lady have
infuriated the US military brass and troops.

"She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers,"
fumed retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart, the former head of the
Pennsylvania National Guard.

"She is insulting the command in its entirety," he said yesterday.

Clinton came under fire after saying she "misspoke" about what
happened during the trip and claimed it was the first time she erred
in describing her visit - an assertion Barack Obama's campaign quickly
disproved by finding at least three prior occasions over the last few
months where she's claimed there was sniper fire.

Stewart, who was assigned to the Army's European headquarters at the
time of Clinton's visit in 1996, called her statements "really
astonishing."

"Believe me, heads would have rolled all over" if the military put the
then-first lady at "unacceptable risk," added Stewart, who is
supporting Barack Obama.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Buster Glosson, a John McCain supporter who ran the
air attack in the first Gulf War, said, "It bothers me any time anyone
running for the highest office in the land fabricates a story.

"That should bother any American, whether you're military or
nonmilitary."

Another source, a former Army analyst who was stationed abroad when
dignitaries visited, said, "You know, we have soldiers overseas now
who are getting shot at by real bullets from real enemies who really
want to kill them.

"Getting shot at by snipers is not something you forget - or make
light of," he added.