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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 a speech to investors in Hong Kong
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
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By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 his Fox News program
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
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September 23, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 an interview on MSNBC
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
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September 4, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
"President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'"
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May 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 a news conference.
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
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April 21, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 8, 2009 an episode of his TV program.
"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."
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April 13, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 12, 2008 a statement by a spokesman
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • May 19, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 11, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on August 30, 2007 a television interview.
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
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September 19, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 5, 2007 a TV ad.
"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."
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By Tom Tobin • August 30, 2007
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