The foreign minister says the danger in what he calls that "misinformation" is that it brings all sorts of organizations to say that he has been imprisoned on ideological reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"The financial cost is a totally separate matter, and I think that as we're starting to feel the economic pinches here at home as the president has to go and ask for more money for Afghanistan, we'll probably see some similar sorts of pushbacks to what we had in Vietnam."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09