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Checking Paul on Attack Claims

October 26, 2011 5:12 pm by: Nathan Bernier

Congressman Ron Paul on the U.T. campus during the 2008 presidential campaign. Photo by KUT NewsCongressman Ron Paul on the U.T. campus during the 2008 presidential campaign. Photo by KUT News

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Statements by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson,have drawn plenty of attention since PolitiFact was born in 2007. (The Austin American-Statesman’s Politifact Texas launched in 2010.) KUT’s Nathan Bernier talked with the Statesman’s Gardner Selby about some of the GOP presidential hopeful’s statements, including one that asserts suicide attacks against U.S. interests are way, way up since Sept. 11, 2001

PolitiFact searched all suicide attacks committed against the United States or its allies before and after 9/11. That means not limited to al Qaeda attacks but also those carried out by Afghan rebels, Hezbollah, Iraqi rebels, Pakistani militants, even Uzbek rebels. The database says 1,844 suicide attacks against the United States and its allies, just 10 of them before 9/11.

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One Response to “Checking Paul on Attack Claims”

  1. On October 27, 2011 at 8:44 am stew30 responded with... #

    RON PAUL 2012- THE TIME HAS COME

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