Iraq

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All Fact-checks for Iraq

Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech:

Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.

December 20, 2022

Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 in a speech at the RNC:

Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”

By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020

Viral image
stated on January 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

A man at "the storming of the U.S. embassy" in Iraq visited the White House in 2011.

January 8, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on September 3, 2019 in an NPR interview:

Referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment."

By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2019

Seth Moulton
stated on June 7, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden hasn’t admitted he was wrong on the Iraq War, as he did with the Hyde Amendment.

By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2019

Justice Democrats
stated on April 25, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and school desegregation."

By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on April 28, 2018 in a speech in Washington, Mich.:

"We have spent $7 trillion, trillion with a T, $7 trillion in the Middle East."

By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2018

Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 in a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin:

"We’re already bombing seven countries."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:

Says "Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate . . . a status of forces agreement."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016

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

"I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right."

By Lauren Carroll • September 27, 2016

Paul Wolfowitz
stated on September 11, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction."

By Allison Graves, Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 in the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum :

"I was totally against the war in Iraq."

By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • September 8, 2016

Katrina Pierson
stated on August 2, 2016 in an interview on CNN.:

"It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Humayun Khan’s) life."

By Linda Qiu • August 3, 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

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 in a speech:

"I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started."

By Aaron Sharockman • June 22, 2016

Todd Wilcox
stated on May 20, 2016 in a newspaper interview:

"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."

By Joshua Gillin • May 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 in a major foreign policy speech:

"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 in a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 in an essay in The Hollywood Reporter:

"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016