Latest Fact-Checks In Iraq

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Paul Krugman
stated on November 29, 2009 ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'

"If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes."

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November 30, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2008 Chester, Va.

The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."

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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2008

John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad

Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."

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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008

Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 a television ad

John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."

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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 31, 2008 a debate in Los Angeles

"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."

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February 4, 2008

Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007

"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."

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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007

Bill Richardson
stated on September 25, 2007

"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."

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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 23, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2007 Washington, DC.

"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."

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By John Frank • September 20, 2007

Ron Paul
stated on September 5, 2007 a debate in Durham, N.H.

"We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."

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By Jody Kyle • September 9, 2007

Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 19, 2007 Washington, DC

"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war."

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By John Frank • August 28, 2007

Joe Biden
stated on May 23, 2007 a news release.

"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."

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By David DeCamp • August 20, 2007

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