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1 October
5:28 pm

I set up and trained all the Iraqi police — thirty five thousand — for the president of the United States in one year.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (NEWS CENTER Maine)

5:28 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific numerical claim (35,000 Iraqi police trained in one year) tied to a named operation under Colin Powell — verifiable against military records and historical accounts.
What we foundThe 35,000 figure appears in INL bureau records as a multi-year output across multiple agencies, not a single-year achievement by Charles alone, and the broader training effort involved the U.S. military, DOJ/ICITAP, DynCorp contractors, and coalition forces — not exclusively Charles's State Department bureau.
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