This is the exact same feeling I got when I first saw the trailer for the upcoming film.
An attempt to minimize the efforts and achievements of the Reagan Administration and give credit to the Democrats for ending the Cold War.
March 12, 2007: How Joanne Herring won Charlie Wilson's War
# Very good article in the UK Telegraph
Joanne Herring in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen
# A few months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, she smuggled herself into that mountainous land to film the atrocities that the Russian forces were inflicting as they strafed villages from helicopter gunships.
April 13, 2007: The Belle, the Politician and the CIA
- Joanne Herring played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War
# Long article on her life and accomplishments in her hometown Houston Chronicle newspaper. Very interesting women. I have been reading for hours.
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