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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 30, 2012 in a TV ad:
"I led the fight to require the Coast Guard to buy their engines from us, not foreign companies."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 22, 2012
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
stated on August 15, 2012 in a Web video:
"Days after the (Osama bin Laden) raid, Hollywood was invited into the White House so that they could receive a briefing" that revealed intelligence sources and methods.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2012
Steve Phelps
Steve Phelps
stated on July 10, 2012:
"NASCAR fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and 37 percent of active servicemembers and veterans are NASCAR fans."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2012
Sanford Bishop
Sanford Bishop
stated on July 23, 2012 in an online video of an earlier speech:
"There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 3, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 29, 2012 in an interview on 'Face the Nation.':
President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict "only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada … We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 31, 2012
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on May 28, 2012 in a speech.:
Virginia "is home to more veterans per capita than any state in America."
False
By Nancy Madsen • June 11, 2012
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on April 11, 2012 in a speech:
The fastest-rising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care.
True
By Eric Stirgus • May 2, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 24, 2012 in a chain email forwarded by a reader.:
Says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered "enough rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to kill every man, woman and child in the United States," possibly to combat "massive civil unrest" or "an invasion by a foreign power."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 30, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 21, 2012 in a chain email:
"The ACLU has filed a suit to end prayer from the military completely."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • April 19, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 19, 2012 in an email:
Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.
Pants on Fire!
By Sue Owen • April 4, 2012
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
stated on March 26, 2012 in a Twitter post:
"Obama tells Russia that he'll turn over America's defense system to them if re-elected."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • April 2, 2012
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on February 29, 2012 in a Web video advertisement:
"Under President Obama, U.S. security funding for Israel is at an all-time high."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on February 24, 2012 in a speech:
Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States."
True
By Alex Kuffner • March 2, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 22, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.:
"When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It's now 17 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 17, 2012 in a campaign event:
Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev.:
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 18, 2012 in a news release:
"More than one in five of veterans aged 20 to 24 can’t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 12, 2011 in a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.:
"You look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • December 13, 2011
Alan Simpson
Alan Simpson
stated on November 18, 2011 in a speech at the City Club of Cleveland:
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.
True
By Tom Feran • December 5, 2011
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