claim: "afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war."
author: ted yoho
evidence_1: jan 9, 2018 ... it was during the cold war that the us first intervened in afghanistan, backing  muslim ... its toll, afghan farmers began to turn to opium “in desperation”, since it  produced .... in little more than a month, the lethal us bombing campaign, .... “ they will have to roll over me and kill me before they can kill my poppy”.
evidence_2: "afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had  before we started this war." — politifact global news service on tuesday, april ...
evidence_3: afghanistan has been the world's leading illicit opium producer since 1992 ( excluding the year 2001). afghanistan's opium poppy harvest produces more  than 90% of illicit heroin ... in the seven years (1994–2000) prior to a taliban  opium ban, the afghan ..... afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2016 ( hectares).
evidence_4: "afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had  before we started this war." — politifact global news service on tuesday, april ...
evidence_5: nov 21, 2017 ... afghan heroin is not fueling the deadly u.s. opiate epidemic to any ... hectares ( ha); the estimated total production of opium shot up by 87 ... in 2016, it killed  some 64,000 americans, more than double the number in 2005. ... temporary  decreases in poppy cultivation and heroin production have not been ...