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Ohio Republican Party
stated on October 28, 2016 a campaign mailer:

"Casey Weinstein: No faith in our military" ... "When some of our cadets wanted to watch a religious film, Casey Weinstein sued the U.S. military. Sued our soldiers?"

By Nadia Pflaum • November 7, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 a debate.:

Donald Trump says "that NATO is obsolete and that we need to get rid of NATO..."

By Sean Gorman • October 10, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:

Says "Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate . . . a status of forces agreement."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2016 a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton "gave up 20 percent of America's uranium supply to Russia."

By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Scranton, Pa.:

Says military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, "they would not follow his orders."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 11, 2016 an interview on Fox News:

"The Pentagon itself says that we could eliminate 20 percent of U.S. bases."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 15, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on June 28, 2016 comments on his Fox News program:

"During the (Benghazi) attack, a stand-down order was given, and our troops were told to change their clothes four times."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016:

Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."

By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 a campaign speech:

Says Donald Trump "wants us to pull out of NATO."

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 a Fox News debate :

"Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."

By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa:

"We get practically nothing compared to the cost of" keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.

By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on Meet the Press:

The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."

By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

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."

By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015

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."

By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015

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.

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 17, 2015 a town hall in Carson City, Nevada:

"A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited."

By Amy Sherman • July 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Four times, I said, he (John McCain) is a hero, but you know ... people choose selective pieces."

By Linda Qiu • July 19, 2015

E.W. Jackson
stated on July 4, 2015 a news release.:

Says President Obama "is reducing our naval fleet to 1917 levels..."

By Sean Gorman • July 13, 2015

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