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Charlie Wilson's War
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Posted on 02/01/2014 9:12:44 PM PST by mylife

Have any of yall seen this? What are your thoughts?.

I Really liked Gust


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41 posted on 02/01/2014 11:21:58 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

Loved this movie. There was extensive commentary here when the movie was new in the theaters.


42 posted on 02/02/2014 12:08:43 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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" Wilson took an interest in national security and foreign matters. Growing up during World War II encouraged Wilson to avidly read military history, including numerous articles and other literature on the war. This led Wilson to have
a lifelong reverence for Winston Churchill."
43 posted on 02/02/2014 12:53:56 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: mylife

There are actually two movies about Charlie. One is the movie with Tom Hanks and the other is a two hour television documentary. Maybe History Channel?
There was a time in America when Democrats didn’t always march in lockstep with the Socialists. Charlie was quite a guy.


44 posted on 02/02/2014 5:03:52 AM PST by The Public Eye
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I miss that America.


45 posted on 02/02/2014 6:20:49 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Good movie. I’ve got that one on DVD. There’s definitely some Hollywood spin in that movie, but the characters really make the story.


46 posted on 02/02/2014 6:28:43 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I think Gust is brilliant.
How many men are there like him in this world?


47 posted on 02/02/2014 6:34:51 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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DVD? What is that?
I watched it on A G-box using XBMC V12.


48 posted on 02/02/2014 6:39:27 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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I can’t keep up with all that newfangled tech. They come up with stuff that’s supposed to be “the next big thing” and then it suddenly fades into obscurity after a while.


49 posted on 02/02/2014 7:12:38 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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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.

50 posted on 02/02/2014 7:16:22 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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XBMC is free to download on any device and The G-box device( (a standalone computer) is like $88.

I love mine.


51 posted on 02/02/2014 7:39:30 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Prospero

Thank you for your honest input.


52 posted on 02/02/2014 7:40:06 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Hindsight has/had nothing to do with it. Historical ignorance has everything to do with it.

Study England in Afganistan. Study history before that, i.e. the Romans and everyone else who tried to tame those yahoos.

53 posted on 02/02/2014 8:18:49 AM PST by Parmy
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Enjoyed it very much!! Yes, Gust was the best!


54 posted on 02/02/2014 8:48:51 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: mylife

my thoughts on Charlie Wilosn today are

he was a “soldier of fortune” wannabee, who, like the U.S, foreign policy “Hawks” who backed him, had really honorable intentions in what they thought, to themselves, was really honorable enterprise.

It was an enterprise in which he, and his supporters were totally, naively ignorant of their “allies” in the matter, who were actually using Charlie Wilson and the U.S. foreign policy apparatus in supporting their own double game - doing what seemed to be what we wanted but was 100% the opposite, using us to get done what they wanted - which was NOT in our long term interest.

We simply helped replace a secular Marxist dictatorship with a Muslim, radical fundamentalist Islamic dictatorship, and provided a great boost to international Islamic terrorism in the process, and to our eventual great loss.

Yes, I know, I am Monday morning quarterbacking, but in this case, in hindsight, there is more insight, knowledge and honesty and no naivete in doing so, which is more than can be said of our foreign policy hawks and Charlie Wilson when they allied themselves with the Islamists run by Pakistan, to create an Islamist Afghanistan, paid for by Saudi Arabia in their own international promotion of radical Islamist fundamentalism.

Charlie Wilson was a good guy, and together with our foreign policy hawks he was duped into supporting an enterprise that was not in our long term interest, because of the real agenda our “allies” in the enterprise were actually promoting, for themselves.


55 posted on 02/02/2014 9:15:24 AM PST by Wuli
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Thank you for your Frank and Ernest input.


56 posted on 02/02/2014 11:20:27 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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frankly scarlet I don’t give a dam


57 posted on 02/02/2014 11:24:21 AM PST by Wuli
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58 posted on 02/02/2014 11:25:28 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Weird. They just found the guy OD’d today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066BFGk6QvA


59 posted on 02/02/2014 2:23:08 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I know.


60 posted on 02/02/2014 2:48:47 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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