History Channel does Charlie Wilson

I am watching the "True Story of Charlie Wilson" on the History channel this morning.

Interesting show. The first funding for the muhjadeen in Afghanistan was authorized by Jimmy Carter in 1979. Charlie Wilson was a boozing, ladies man, congressman from Texas. His inspiration for increasing the funding for the muhjadeen came from watching a "60 Minutes" program where Dan Rather was reporting from Afghanistan while sitting in a hot tub with a bunch of women in Las Vegas. So see the real root of Osama Bin Laden and the funding of the muhjadeen lie with Carter, Rather and a Democrat representative.

Wilson went around normal funding procedures in the House and doubled the funding from $5 million to $10 million just by inserting it into the bill unchallenged.
Joanne Herring very anti communist socialite teams with Robin King to film Documentary in Afghanistan to convince congress for more funding.

Pakistan is base for Afghan resistance. Base of operations for the current day Taliban and hideout Phesawar is home to about 3 million Afghani's. This is the current base of operations for the Taliban and refuge of Al Queda.

Wilson went to Egypt to make a deal for the Soviet weapons they had so he used a gal named Carol Shannon to put on a belly dance for an Egyptian to get in to his good graces for the weapons. She is warned not to insult Islamic sensibilities in her routine but defies them and puts on a good ol belly dance complete with sword. Abu Gazalah releases the weapons to Wilson to give to the mujhadeen. She dressed in western attire, blue jeans and shirts which the muj on the one hand objected to but were also intrigued by. Their resistance to her dress was token. Hear that Nancy Pelosi. I keep saying women are our best weapon in this battle against Islamic extremism.

For those interested in not just the Hollywood version of who and what Charlie Wilson was about should watch the program. It is 2 hours in length but interesting in light of all the attention the movie has brought forward.

For those looking for the book here it is.

How the Democrats Won the Cold War

Remarkably, after the epic bombs Redacted and Lions for Lambs, now Hollywood will soon release a film explaining--get this--how the Democrats won the Cold War!

You can't make this stuff up.

TURNS OUT THE DEMOCRATS WON THE COLD WAR. WHO KNEW?

At last, Hollywood has (sort of) made a pro-CIA, pro-war, anti-Soviet movie: "Charlie Wilson's War." It's all about how Democrats defeated the Soviet Empire.

A better title for the movie would be “The Invisible Man," because the man who doesn't appear in it, and is barely mentioned in the background, is Ronald Reagan. Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer and even Rudy Giuliani - back when he was still “Rudolph" - are much more prominently name-checked than Reagan in the movie, which was directed by Sawyer's husband Mike Nichols.

The Dec. 21 release stars Tom Hanks as a 1980s Texas Congressman named Charlie Wilson, a coke-snorting, skirt-chasing, boozing liberal. Who better to write the script than Aaron Sorkin?

Wilson, backed by a Commie-hating right-wing Christian millionaire fundraiser played by Julia Roberts, helped funnel CIA assistance to the Muslim rebels in Afghanistan who originally tried to repel the Soviet invasion using weapons George Custer would have called obsolete. They needed Stinger missiles and eventually got them.

The film is going to flop, unless Christmas finds millions of Americans saying, “Hey, kids, now that everyone's unwrapped their presents, let's go see a movie about fighting in Afghanistan!"

The movie has something for everyone - to dislike. Some liberals will say it isn't tough enough on Republicans (though at the end, it all but blames the U.S. for the rise of the Taliban, a notion I don't have space to get into here), possibly because it is being released by Universal, a division of Defense Department contractors G.E. (Color me skeptical that G.E. sends an Alec-Baldwin-on-“30 Rock"-figure to spy on Tom Hanks movies and polish the dishwashers on the set.)

George Crile, who wrote the book upon which the movie is based, didn't attempt to hide its provenance. Crile was basically a mouthpiece for a tale spun by the two guys who painted themselves as the heroes of the story: “The extensive recollections of Charlie Wilson and Gust Avrakotos [the CIA man played by Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen] form the backbone of the greater part of this narrative," Crile wrote in his source notes.

Read the rest.

This might be a shoo-in for the best comedy of the year.