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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on October 3, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
In most Muslim countries, "We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden."
False
By Robert Farley • October 6, 2010
Patriot Majority PAC
Patriot Majority PAC
stated on August 17, 2010 a campaign commercial:
The Chilean "privatization scheme" that Sharron Angle supports "has resulted in hidden fees, fewer benefits, and millions of people with no coverage."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column:
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on September 2, 2010 a television commercial:
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on August 15, 2010 a televised debate on Miami's WPLG-10 against Kendrick Meek.:
On lifting the U.S. Cuban embargo and allowing travel to Cuba.
Full Flop
By Laura Figueroa • August 19, 2010
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
stated on August 10, 2010 a press release.:
"U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf’s trip to the Middle East."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2010
Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling
stated on July 8, 2010 a speech:
"Today almost half our debt is owned by foreigners."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 30, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on July 5, 2010 a CNN interview:
"We're spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 15, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 30, 2010 a Facebook posting:
The U.S. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech:
"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on June 22, 2010 a debate:
The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 3, 2010 a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet:
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 30, 2010 an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 11, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2010 a prepared statement:
On recess appointments.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 his book "No Apology.":
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010
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