He was also known as "Coke Charlie" --often had "white powder" on his nose! I couldn't stand the jerk!
We have a good congressman now--Kevin Brady (R).
He was my congressman as well and I concur with everything you said. I spend years trying to defeat the guy, even came VERY close to running against him myself in 1994, but if even half of what this movie portrays about him is true we owe him a debt of gratitude for his efforts in ths ONE area.
Naahh, I just give credit to Reagan for letting the stingers in. Charlie's heart was in the right place, but without the stingers, the moojahadeeni's would just be squishy stuff in Soviet tank tracks. It was a BIG gamble to let the stingers go, but it won the war. Course, we may have gotten some returned to us with Flt 800 off the Atlantic coast. I just have trouble giving a cokehead womanizer drunk credit for anything worthwhile.
BTW, I'm talking about C. Wilson, not Clinton. Just wanted to clear that up. I guess that could be Teddy Kennedy also. Hell, maybe most of the Dem party is a bunch of cokeheads now that I think about it.