[Prospero]

You asked for my response. Charlie Wilson was a friend of mine, I'm embarrassed to say, because he was a power player in Tip O'Neill and Jim Wright's gutless Houses of Representatives.

The film, though entertaining, is not history, unless one allows shameless Democrat revisionist history as true history.

The film and the story upon which it is based is almost completely made up, an attempt to re-write the American response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, after the ousting of Jimmy Carter, as successful because of the efforts of the fun-loving efforts of a handful of Democrat House insiders.

Charlie Wilson was a fun guy, but his cooperation with Republicans after Reagan and Graham swept his district was almost completely pragmatic. He was became a hawk, in reality, only to save his political bacon.

Since he's dead, now, Liberals are safe to celebrate him as one of their own.

[mylife]

Thank you for your honest input.