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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 26, 2011 a speech at Dartmouth College.:
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
Half-True
By John Gregg • August 19, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H.:
There are 500 million Internet users "and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • August 19, 2011
Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on August 16, 2011 an interview.:
Says Rick Perry "wanted to secede from the union."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H. :
The United States has "the longest surviving constitution."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • August 8, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 a town hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.:
During his first year, President Obama said he "was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world."
Mostly False
By Josh Rogers • July 20, 2011
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on June 24, 2011 a news release:
Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 a press conference:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011
Yard sign
Yard sign
stated on June 15, 2011 a yard on Route 12 near Keene, N.H.:
Says President Obama "has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined."
True
By John Gregg • June 30, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on May 5, 2011 a presidential debate:
"The Arab and the Muslim nations get twice as much money as Israel."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 21, 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press":
During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 1, 2011 an address to the nation:
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 14, 2011 an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on April 16, 2011 a speech in Iowa:
China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt.
False
By Robert Farley • April 22, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech.:
"Foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget."
True
By Jacob Geiger • April 13, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2011
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business network:
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2011 an interview on ABC's "The View":
South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 a televised address:
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
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