Latest Fact-Checks In Afghanistan

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stated on August 15, 2021 an Instagram post
Says CNN said “Taliban fighters responsibly wearing masks.”
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August 17, 2021
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stated on August 16, 2021 an Instagram post
Says CNN and other news organizations tweeted that a journalist was executed in Kabul by Taliban fighters.
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August 17, 2021
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stated on August 15, 2021 a Facebook post
Photo shows CNN chyron about Afghanistan that says, “Violent but mostly peaceful transfer of power.”
False
August 16, 2021
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stated on February 15, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden “helps build Afghanistan’s pipeline.”
False
February 18, 2021
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stated on February 2, 2020 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.”
False
March 20, 2020
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stated on January 6, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden "murdered U.S. Navy Seals."
False
By Samantha Putterman • January 10, 2020
Todd Wilcox
Todd Wilcox
stated on May 20, 2016 a newspaper interview
"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."
False
By Joshua Gillin • May 24, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."  
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 14, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Saddam Hussein "had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 14, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 24, 2014 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on May 1, 2013 remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.
Says only about 250 Texans have been killed in action since 9/11.
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 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."
False
By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 16, 2010 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."
False
October 5, 2010
Ted Ankrum
Ted Ankrum
stated on August 31, 2010 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."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2010
Michael J. Gardiner
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on August 30, 2010 a Rhode Island News Channel debate
"It costs us, logistically, three times more to fight in Afghanistan than it does in any other place."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 7, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 a special order speech on the U.S. House floor
"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working."
False
July 21, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 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."
False
March 2, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 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."
False
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
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