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Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2017 in a post on Twitter:

"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"

By Allison Graves • March 19, 2017

Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 in a U.S. Senate debate:

Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.

By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 in a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 in a presidential debate at Hofstra University:

"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech on foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio:

"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2016 in an appearance on MSNBC:

Says Donald Trump "is going to go out and carpet bomb" the Middle East.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 12, 2016 in a speech at a Trump rally:

Says Hillary Clinton "took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire" during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

By Adam Thorp • July 14, 2016

Rob Wittman
stated on June 18, 2016 in a Facebook post.:

"On average, each U.S. military working dog saves the lives of between 150 and 200 servicemen and women over the span of his career."

By Warren Fiske • June 14, 2016

John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 in a State Department news briefing:

Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 in Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."

By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN GOP presidential debate:

Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."

By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on August 13, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says 57 percent of federal spending goes to the military and just 1 percent goes to food and agriculture, including food stamps.

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2015

Allen West
stated on August 1, 2015 in a blog on his website:

The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."

By Lauren Carroll • August 4, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on July 15, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

President Barack Obama "said at the beginning of the negotiations that the basic approach was to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for dismantling the sanctions."

By Christian Belanger • July 22, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2015 in comments on ABC's This Week.:

Says John McCain "has done nothing to help the vets."

By Linda Qiu • July 21, 2015

Joe Theismann
stated on July 9, 2015 in a discussion on "Outnumbered":

"We don’t have a (military) reserve force if something happens."

By Katie Sanders • July 14, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 in his presidential announcement speech:

"Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don't know if it worked."

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on July 12, 2014 in a roundtable with Texas businesses:

"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2015

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