Originally Posted by Minte

■President Obama erred when he accused Mitt Romney of saying during the 2008 campaign that ?we should ask Pakistan for permission? before going into that country to kill or capture terrorists. What Romney said was that he?d ?keep our options quiet.?

■Obama wrongly accused Romney of not telling the truth when Romney said ?you and I agreed? some U.S. troops should be left in Iraq. In fact, the president tried and failed to negotiate an agreement to keep 3,000 to 4,000 support troops there; Romney said he would have left 10,000 to 30,000

■Obama wrongly claimed Romney called Russia the ?biggest geopolitical threat facing America.? Actually, Romney called Russia a ?foe? and not a ?threat.? He said ?the greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran.?

Obama: When it comes to going after Osama bin Laden, you said, well, any president would make that call. But when you were a candidate in 2008 ? as I was ? and I said, if I got bin Laden in our sights, I would take that shot, you said we shouldn?t move heaven and earth to get one man, and you said we should ask Pakistan for permission. And if we had asked Pakistan for permission, we would not have gotten him. And it was worth moving heaven and earth to get him.
Obama distorted two facts here. We?ll first address the one about Pakistan.

As a senator and candidate for president, Obama said he would attack ?high-value? terrorists in Pakistan with or without the approval of its then-president, Pervez Musharraf.

Twisting the facts is NOT exclusive to Romney.