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stated on August 15, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says CNN said “Taliban fighters responsibly wearing masks.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2021

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stated on August 16, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says CNN and other news organizations tweeted that a journalist was executed in Kabul by Taliban fighters.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2021

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stated on August 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows CNN chyron about Afghanistan that says, “Violent but mostly peaceful transfer of power.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 16, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden “helps build Afghanistan’s pipeline.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 18, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:

A list of 11 names are “Marines that gave their lives this week for everyone in this country. There is no media for them, not even a mention of their names.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 20, 2020

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stated on January 6, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden "murdered U.S. Navy Seals."

By Samantha Putterman, Ciara O'Rourke • January 10, 2020

Todd Wilcox
stated on May 20, 2016 in a newspaper interview:

"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."

By Joshua Gillin • May 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 in Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."

By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016

Dick Cheney
stated on December 14, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Saddam Hussein "had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida."

By Jon Greenberg • December 14, 2014

Chain email
stated on April 24, 2014 in a chain email:

"More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before."

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2014

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on May 1, 2013 in remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.:

Says only about 250 Texans have been killed in action since 9/11.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2013

David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:

"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."

By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012

Greg Abbott
stated on July 16, 2010 in an interview with Fox News:

"More lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in Juarez alone, just a few blocks from the United States of America, than have been lost in the war in Afghanistan."

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 5, 2010

Ted Ankrum
stated on August 31, 2010 in an e-mail blast.:

"More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2010

Michael J. Gardiner
stated on August 30, 2010 in a Rhode Island News Channel debate:

"It costs us, logistically, three times more to fight in Afghanistan than it does in any other place."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 7, 2010

Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 in a special order speech on the U.S. House floor:

"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working."

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 21, 2010

Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 in a 'Today Show' interview:

"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens."

By Robert Farley • March 2, 2010

Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."

By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009

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