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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 1, 2011 an address to the nation
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
Half-True
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
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
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on March 23, 2011 an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News
"American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on March 23, 2011 televised interviews
On whether the United States should intervene in Libya.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2007 an interview with the "Boston Globe"
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Ted Poe
Ted Poe
stated on February 9, 2011 a House floor speech
The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Robin Wright
Robin Wright
stated on March 20, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
The coalition of Arab states against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 13, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 4, 2011 a comment on his television show
The Muslim Brotherhood has "openly stated they want to declare war on Israel."
False
By Lucas Graves • February 15, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 7, 2011 a chain e-mail
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 31, 2011 his radio program
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Half-True
February 4, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview with ABC News
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
stated on January 30, 2011 a newspaper column
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
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