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Vets for Freedom Exercise Freedom to Mislead

Posted on October 6, 2008

The right-leaning Vets for Freedom, in an effort to drum up support for a resolution heralding “the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq,” released this ad Oct. 1 in California. The ad, which criticizes Sen. Barack Obama, represents a $2.2 million buy – the largest statewide airtime purchase …
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Troop Levels Off

Posted on October 2, 2008

Palin got her numbers wrong on troop levels when she said that troops were now down to “pre-surge” levels. The surge was announced in January 2007, at which point there were 132,000 troops in Iraq according to the Brookings Institute Iraq Index. As of September 2008, that number was 146,000. …
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Operation Iraqi Gloss-Over

Posted on September 14, 2007 , Corrected on September 17, 2007

Summary President Bush played loose with the facts in his address to the nation Thursday night as he tried to convince the American public that the surge in U.S. troops in Iraq has made the country more stable. He said "36 nations … have troops on the ground in Iraq." …
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