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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
stated on June 29, 2010 in the Kagan confirmation hearing:
During the year Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law School's Office of Career Services, "military recruiting actually went up."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 30, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on June 4, 2010 in an e-mail:
"Bill White has a long history of trying to limit or even disenfranchise military voters."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 14, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Allen West
Allen West
stated on May 16, 2010 in a blog on his campaign website:
In Afghanistan "the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.' "
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 21, 2010
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on May 16, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 17, 2010
Julian Assange
Julian Assange
stated on April 12, 2010 in an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 14, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 in 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
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 29, 2010 in his Fox News program:
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2010
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 in an interview with Sen. John McCain on Fox News Channel:
The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2009
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 in CNN's State of the Union with John King:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 in a GOP survey:
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 24, 2009 in an interview on CBS's Face the Nation:
Cheney is "disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 26, 2009
Pray in Jesus Name Project
Pray in Jesus Name Project
stated on May 17, 2009 in an advertisement :
"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 18, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 in a TV interview:
"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 28, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 in a television ad:
Obama "voted against funding our troops."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 in a Republican debate in Boca Raton.:
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas:
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas:
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 16, 2008
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