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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Rachel Weisel
Troop Support for Candidates
Q: Did ABC News misrepresent which candidate troops in Iraq support, as a chain e-mail alleges? A: No. The e-mail is bogus, and the major general to which it is attributed says he never wrote it.
Uranium in Iraq
Q: Was it recently revealed that the U.S. found uranium in Iraq after the invasion in 2003? A: No. Uranium recently shipped from Iraq to Canada was left over from Saddam Hussein’s defunct nuclear weapons program and had been in sealed containers, under guard, since the end of the first …
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Errors en Espanol
Summary McCain’s new radio ad, in Spanish, aims to show Florida would benefit from the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which he supports. But every number in the ad is wrong, except one, a prediction of job gains taken from a group favoring the trade deal. And even that number is …
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Polar Bear Population
Q: Are there three times as many polar bears in the Arctic now as there were in the 1970s? A: The population of polar bears today is larger than it was in the 1970s, due mainly to legislation banning polar bear hunting, but exact numbers are unclear. We couldn’t find …
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