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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.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
stated on June 29, 2010 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."
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June 30, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on June 4, 2010 an e-mail
"Bill White has a long history of trying to limit or even disenfranchise military voters."
Half-True
June 14, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 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 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 ABC's "This Week"
Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."
Half-True
May 17, 2010
Julian Assange
Julian Assange
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."
Half-True
April 14, 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
April 11, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 29, 2010 his Fox News program
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
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February 3, 2010
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 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 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.
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By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 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
July 14, 2009
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 24, 2009 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
May 26, 2009
Pray in Jesus Name Project
Pray in Jesus Name Project
stated on May 17, 2009 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
May 18, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 a TV interview
"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."
Half-True
April 28, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 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 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 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 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
January 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 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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