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Latest Fact-Checks In Afghanistan

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Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on June 22, 2011 in an interview on "Morning Joe.":
The U.S. is spending "one out of every six Defense Department dollars on Afghanistan."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on May 9, 2011 in an article in Politico:
"A gallon (of gasoline) delivered to the front lines for our troops in Afghanistan cost more than $400."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • May 23, 2011
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on May 6, 2011 in a radio interview:
"Most military experts say there is anywhere between 25 and 30 members of al Qaeda in Afghanistan."
Mostly False
By Richard Salit • May 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2011 in remarks at a campaign fundraiser:
Says Paul Ryan "voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for."  
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on March 16, 2011 in a House committee hearing:
"A report in Navy Times said that 7.3 percent of Army, Navy and Marines have thought about attempting suicide."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • April 8, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2011 in comments to reporters.:
"Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 17, 2011
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on October 24, 2010 in a debate:
"The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2010
Greg Abbott
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."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 5, 2010
Ted Ankrum
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."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2010
Michael J. Gardiner
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."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 7, 2010
Barney Frank
Barney Frank
stated on July 7, 2010 in MSNBC's Morning Joe:
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.
Half-True
By Erin Mershon, Robert Farley • August 13, 2010
Elizabeth Dennigan
Elizabeth Dennigan
stated on June 28, 2010 in a statement on her campaign website:
"We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain."
Mostly True
By Cynthia Needham • August 13, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 1, 2010 in on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2010
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 10, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure."
True
By Robert Higgs • July 23, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee
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."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 21, 2010
Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias
stated on July 8, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service."
True
By Robert Farley • July 8, 2010
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on June 22, 2010 in a commentary on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2010
Allen West
Allen West
stated on May 16, 2010 in a blog on his campaign website:
In Afghanistan "the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.' "
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 21, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 in a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
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