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Reagan's War, Not Charlie Wilson's
Investor's Business Daily ^
| December 24, 2007
| IBD
Posted on 12/25/2007 12:58:28 AM PST by CutePuppy
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Charlie Wilson singlehandedly "won" the Afghani mujahideen resistance war against Soviets, Reagan and Bush didn't follow up his victory by failing to provide the money and secure Afghanistan ("nation building") - the lesson of the movie - for those who don't remember or know history, this will now be history according to Aaron Sorkin of "West Wing" fame (just like "JFK" and "Nixon" is now history according to Oliver Stone).
Expect "director's cut" with the scenes cut from the theatrical release - due to pressure by Joanne Herring and Texas legal eagles - showing on cable next summer, during election season when most people will likely see it for the first time - that's how "history" is made.
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posted on
12/25/2007 12:58:29 AM PST
by
CutePuppy
To: CutePuppy
I KNEW there was something fishy about all these libs claiming this was somehow a "pro-war" movie over at AICN, and saying it showed how the US defeated the Soviets.
With Hanks and Roberts, what else could one have expected?
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:01:18 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: Darkwolf377
With Hanks and Roberts, what else could one have expected?And the drug-addled Sorkin. Pure Hollywood "docu-fantasy".
To: CutePuppy
With the retreat of the Red Army from Afghanistan followed by the fall of the Soviet Union, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in the last few years has been claiming the U.S. provoked the Afghan War. He said this was done with some grand strategy in mind to bring on the collapse of the Soviets. In other words, it was he and Carter who made the wall come down, not Reagan.
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:13:34 AM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: CutePuppy
Julia Roberts reprises her role as the beautiful yet clueless pol girl in Petty Vermin. Tom Hanks shines yet again as the affectating retard.
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:16:01 AM PST
by
kinghorse
To: Lancey Howard
Yeah, when I saw his name I just started laughing at all these AICN posters claiming no, no, it’s something conservatives would love! Only if it was called “I’m Quitting the Business: A True Story of Aaron Sorkin, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and other Hollywood Leftists”. :D
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:17:16 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: CutePuppy
To: Brad from Tennessee
In other words, it was he and Carter who made the wall come down, not Reagan.The only thing that makes that hilarious is that you know they both REALLY believe this, the deluded fools. Carter nightly probably bristles when some reference to Reagan bringing down the wall comes over the TV.
Within a year we will see revisionism of this, ala the "Reagan was a racist" attempt earlier this year; someone will writer a column reflecting what you posted, and someone else will reference it, etc.
My early Christmas present was seeing that documentary about Carter flop without a sound.
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:20:13 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Not that you asked, but here's a review buy Roger Ebert of the Carter doc--get ready to hurl--url cut to prevent stretching:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20071101/REVIEWS/711010307/1023
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:24:01 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: CutePuppy
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:27:30 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: CutePuppy
My New Year wish is for a film about the Clinton Balkin War, instigated on lies and for political distraction. A war where with our NATO/EU allies we managed to bomb Christian Serbia, our allies in WW 1&2 in order to promote a Terror state on the doorstep to Europe as well as destroy our relationship with Russia.
That would be a good movie!
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posted on
12/25/2007 2:35:57 AM PST
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: Darkwolf377
The Wikipedia article on Afghanistan presently states that the Soviet invasion of the country was undertaken in reaction to American efforts to bring down the native Communist government.
To: Sherman Logan
The Wikipedia article on Afghanistan presently states that the Soviet invasion of the country was undertaken in reaction to American efforts to bring down the native Communist government.This is active alteration of history, and the sad thing is we have allowed the libs to educate a whole generation of kids to believe this DOES NOT MATTER.
Liberals are good; Conservatives, evil. So anything a Liberal does MUST be good, even if it is altering reality so those evil Conservatives don't look good.
This is what it being taught in our schools. P.S. I am typing this from the school where I work.
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posted on
12/25/2007 3:00:13 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: CutePuppy
To: kinghorse
Julia Roberts reprises her role as the beautiful... I have to stop you right there.
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. Julia Roberts
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posted on
12/25/2007 3:10:17 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: SkyPilot
She just went up a few points in my book — note what’s in her cart: at least she has enough taste to drink Sierra Nevada!
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posted on
12/25/2007 3:17:06 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: CutePuppy
The movie is bombing at the box office so that’s good news.
I have no doubt the movie will get more attention on TNT or some other Turner cable network channel and get more exposure to the uneducated who will buy this drivel as the truth.
To: Cincinatus
What’s Sierra Nevada? Is it like root beer? Thanks. and Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/25/2007 4:05:34 AM PST
by
Ken522
To: Darkwolf377
"Charlie Wilson's War" is said to be based on fact, and I have no reason to doubt that. It stars Tom Hanks as Rep. Charles Wilson, a swinging, hard-drinking, coke-using liberal Democrat from Texas who more or less single-handedly defeated the Russians in Afghanistan. Yes. The Soviets withdrew in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War was over, and Ronald Reagan got all the credit. How could Wilson's operation have taken place without anyone knowing? If Ollie North's activities could, why not these?So, in other words, if Ollie North's exploits were real so were Wilson's. No proof, no documentation just tie it to North and you're good.
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posted on
12/25/2007 4:12:53 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
To: raybbr
They never disappoint in their never-ending re-creation of reality, do they?
If SOMEONE's activities happened without anyone knowing, then POOF! these ones did, too!
That's some logic!
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posted on
12/25/2007 4:19:53 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist hoping everyone has a Merry CHRISTmas!)
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