Benghazi: Republicans fail to make history
Hillary Clinton repeats the same answers to the same questions that she has been giving in the last three years, stymying attempts to derail her presidential campaign
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JOURNALISTS who cover important events in Washington, especially when it comes to dramatic announcements by the US president or a major congressional hearing, like to imagine that they are witnessing "history in the making", perhaps even becoming a "part of history".
They would later be able to tell their grandkids that they were there when president George W Bush declared in the Oval Room that the United States was about to oust Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Or that they were present on Capitol Hill when lawmakers grilled Mr Bush's secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld about the mess that the administration ended up creating in Mesopotamia.
But then if you return to the first sentence in this article, I was referring to journalists covering an important or historic event, like say, the attack on and collapse of the Twin Towers in New York City on Sept 11, 2001, which, indeed, changed the world as we knew it, igniting the so-called campaign against terrorism and leading eventually to the US invasion of Iraq.
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