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Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview.
"Only nine" coalition nations with the U.S. "are truly actively involved" in fighting the Islamic State.
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • December 22, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN
"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on 'This Week'
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 a speech at the Citadel
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 a campaign ad
Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."
Mostly True
By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 the Democratic debate in Iowa
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP debate.
"The Chinese are there" in Syria.
False
By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
Mostly True
November 12, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet
Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015
Jim Gilmore
Jim Gilmore
stated on September 16, 2015 a tweet.
On the main GOP presidential debate: "Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience … "
True
By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate
Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."
True
By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 his column in the New York Times
"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech at the Iowa State Fair
"We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 13, 2015 a meme on social media
Says 57 percent of federal spending goes to the military and just 1 percent goes to food and agriculture, including food stamps.
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2015
Allen West
Allen West
stated on August 1, 2015 a blog on his website
The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."
False
By Lauren Carroll • August 4, 2015
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