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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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To: iopscusa

How about a movie based on Kathleen Willeys new book?


41 posted on 12/25/2007 7:16:19 AM PST by bilhosty
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To: Kaslin

ping.


42 posted on 12/25/2007 7:16:22 AM PST by jdm
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To: CutePuppy

It was written by Aaron Sorkin,,, so it’s his wet dream of a righteous Democrat. Those evil Republicans did nothing and I guess he manages to ignore the fact that President Reagan almost single-handedly destroyed the Evil Empire.


43 posted on 12/25/2007 7:23:07 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: napscoordinator

Bump for the fiction I thought this movie would be no matter what you think of Hanks.


44 posted on 12/25/2007 7:24:13 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: SkyPilot

Have never understood Roberts’ popularity... the last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it !


45 posted on 12/25/2007 7:26:23 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: CutePuppy

Everything about war that is good, is due to left-liberal US political support. FDR. Charlie Wilson, but, darn, those evil conservatives failed to follow up by “nation building” after. Why, even Hillary Edwards “voted for the war” in Iraq, but, darn, they didn’t vote for Bush to bungle HOW the war was fought. Yeah!

Everything about war that is bad, is due to eeeevil Republican conservatives.

This message brought to you by Aaron “makes James Carville look neutral” Sorkin and most of the rest of Hollywood.


46 posted on 12/25/2007 7:31:22 AM PST by pogo101
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Yep even the cover of the VHS/DVD or Movie Billboards back in 1987 all had Julia Robert’s bodydouble. One of the first Photoshops? haha


47 posted on 12/25/2007 7:31:36 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: CutePuppy

The aid cutoff was depicted in the movie as Done by old Democrat Committee Chairmen, not by Reagen.


48 posted on 12/25/2007 7:32:07 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: bilhosty

Or “ Murdered By Mumia” by Susan Faulkner.


49 posted on 12/25/2007 7:32:18 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Please dont drag your filth into my swamp...........)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
What I meant was this picture is Julia Robert's head stuck on the body of her body double.


50 posted on 12/25/2007 7:33:39 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: CutePuppy
Flattorney got it EXACTLY right in the following post form another thread. Remember that this is the EXACT same Reagan administration who managed to sell the soviets "engineered to fail" parts for a MAJOR gas pipeline project which later just mysteriously blew up!

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The second purpose of this thread is how several well informed GOP operatives keep this movie from being another anti-war Democrats-Soros Shadow Party hit piece by cutting the D-SSP off at the knees. And, they used a "yellow dog" Democrat attorney, and major power player, Dick Deguerin of Houston, Texas to do it... who is also Tom "still The Hammer" DeLay's attorney. (You can do the math)

Charlie was very honest that the liberal democrats director and producer made him out to be a much better person that he really was, and gave him more credit than he deserved, in the movie. But the flip side is, for a CIA covert operation as high stakes as this one was, Charlie was a perfect candidate. If the deal went bad the FBI investigates and arrests “yellow dog” Democrat Charlie for all his crimes, and he is easy for "the powers" to destroy in the MSM to cover up the “GOP White House didn’t know anything about it” gone bad operation. The CIA specifically looks for guys like Charlie for their dirty work and he was well vetted before they got involved and used him. Is anyone dumb enough to not understand that President Ronald Reagan, and his White House inner cabinet circle, were well briefed and informed on Charlie-Gus & Co.'s activities on a detailed and on-going basis.... and that Reagan & Co. was pulling their strings?

Lookit, Charlie Wilson is dying. So let the man have some brief limelight for participating in a significant historical event, that many Americans and other people around the World don’t know the details.... in which much of the key information is still classified. So what if it includes some of the liberal slant and pumped up BS about the man.

THE bottom line is, like the Nazis, we kicked those Godless Commie bastards ass! Communists....., along with Fascists, Atheists, Socialists, and other ultra liberal and radical POS’s that support the DemoRATs-George Soros Shadow Party, and the Clinton Regime, efforts to destroy our great Country called the United States of America . - FlA

152 posted on 12/24/2007 6:48:51 AM CST by flattorney (See my comprehensive FR Profile "Straight Talk" Page)

51 posted on 12/25/2007 7:44:15 AM PST by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: CutePuppy
I find it funny how the same libs who claim that we abandoned the Afghan mujahadeen after the Soviets left are the ones clamoring for us to abandon Iraq.
52 posted on 12/25/2007 8:10:05 AM PST by fhayek
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To: fhayek

And they are usually the same ones who before we invaded Iraq said that the first George Bush should of finished the job and removed Saddam during the Gulf War.


53 posted on 12/25/2007 8:32:47 AM PST by Swiss
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To: beebuster2000

I first saw Julia while working in Oceans 11. I was amazed. She is thin as a rail and has a mouth that streches from ear to ear. As a professional photographer, I can appreciate how the camera can make her look stunning. The paparazzi get the real stuff because they are shooting on the fly without special lighting, makeup specialist and muliple retakes.


54 posted on 12/25/2007 8:37:46 AM PST by hdstmf
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To: bilhosty

How about a movie based on Kathleen Willeys new book?
Great idea....or based on Ron Brown’s life?


55 posted on 12/25/2007 8:43:49 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: CutePuppy
The only way we could get any $$$ from Congress for anti-commie wars at that time was to do it covertly. "Charlie Wilson's War" was just one of the thorns in the USSR's side. Reagan's policies overall won the cold war and I'm grateful that a rogue democrat congressman from Texas played a part. If it wasn't for blue dogs those Reagan landslides might not have been so great. JMHO.

Blue Dog
56 posted on 12/25/2007 8:51:04 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: iopscusa

No that would be a story about Ron Brown’s death.


57 posted on 12/25/2007 9:16:33 AM PST by bilhosty
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To: beebuster2000
No worries! We can disagree with cheerfulness.

I must confess, however, that Julia Roberts is not what I consider beautiful. These actresses run circles around her.

Their beauty to me is evidence of the existence of God. No random atoms smashing together produced this.



58 posted on 12/25/2007 11:11:16 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Ken522

No. It’s beer actually. A pale ale to be precise. A popular beer here in the west.

Merry Christmas!


59 posted on 12/25/2007 11:53:53 AM PST by driveserve
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To: iopscusa

That would be just one of the good “Bill Clinton’s war” movies that could be made.

“All the President’s Men” book by Woodward and Bernstein came out in 1974, just on the heels of Nixon’s resignation, movie came out in April of 1976, just before the thick of presidential election campaign. They did not wait too long to make that docudrama aka “propagandamentary”.


60 posted on 12/25/2007 11:58:14 AM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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