Democrats are scrappily trying to find a way to now claim they all supported the Cold War and assisted in breaking the Soviet Union.

Charlie Wilson is real hero of the story now. Reagan? Not so much.

actually count as legitimate experience ... so, as it stands now, hanks can lead an amphibious operation against an enemy stronghold, command an apollo space capsule AND throw a kick-ass bachelor party ...

Charlie Wilson was a hardliner regarding the Soviets and that's to his great credit, but he was was no conservative. On domestic issues he was a typical big business bashing, welfare state loving liberal Democrat.

Listening to the doltish Tom Hanks and IQ rating 3 Julia Roberts discuss history is a nightmare for the publicity department of this movie.

I will admit my bias. I do not like Tom Hanks. I detest him for that piece of crap he made with Spielberg in Saving Pvt. Ryan which pictured Americans as cowards and murderers. I loathe him for Bobby Z's Forest Gump where he thought he was going to show all Conservatives were mental retards.......I dislike Opie, Meathead, Letterman and whoever else is in this ilk. I refuse to watch any of their work.

Hanks might like to re examine his facts on Afghanistan Vietnamistan when he realizes those poor people only got their nation ripped apart BECAUSE OF JIMMY CARTER WAS IN BED WITH RUSSIA.

He might like to remember the American farmers who got screwed to bankruptcy because of Carter's grain embargo while his buddies in Rockefeller and Rothschild oil made a fortune selling crude to Europe.

Afghanistan's Muhajadeen was created by Jimmy Carter, but all Carter did was get them slaughtered. It was not until Ronaldus Magnus Reagan who dumped Stinger missiles into their laps that they turned the tide with CIA support in kicking the hell out of the Russians.
Bush 41 maintained the relationship which included bin Laden in keeping these fighters in Afghanistan.

Then it was Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and that entire crew who elected Bill Clinton. Who got this bright idea from his cartel bosses to screw the Russians over even more than what the Bush crew did in draining that nation of wealth.........Clinton decided his buddies needed and oil pipeline out of south Asia right into a place called KOSOVO.

Of course "ethnic cleansing" was the key point, the only problem being the Serbs have documented all of these dead Muslims they supposedly murdered were showing up last year in voting in elections.

Bill though needed a victory and so did Wacko Wes Clarke so they dug out of Afghanistan the Muhajadeen. The Muslims soon found that Europe was green, nice, had good looking women and food......so they thought riot was a great deal after winning Clinton's bombing war and moved into Chechny and refused to go back into the Afghanistan bottle.

Short story, Putin caught Zawahiri in Chechnya, imprisoned him and turned him into a Russian communist agent who now head al Qaeda in the war against America.

So Tommy Hanks, you witless liberal fatherless child, do not dare come into the world of intellect where people know the historical facts as you are void AND THE PROBLEM IN CREATING ALL THE MISERY IN THE WORLD.

Dismissed.

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This media mental lapse.

With "Charlie Wilson's War" coming to the big screen soon -- just when can we envision anyone in the MSM asking Jimmy Carter, "So, you, Brzezinski, and Wilson were all covertly suppling arms to the anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan - and you, as President, actually personally warned Soviet Premier Brezhnev that the US would consider a nuclear strike on the USSR if they went one step past Afghanistan, i.e., Pakistan, in their Imperialist march for a warm water port?"

In the synopsis of the movie, Charlie Wilson's War, it boldly states:

Their (Charlie Wilson, CIA & friends) efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.

In Hollywood's view - Ronald Reagan did little to bring down the USSR, but now this Democrat from Texas did?How many ways can they play it Tim?

Lest we forget, President Jimmy Carter indicated that the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan was "the most serious threat to peace since the Second World War."

What did he do about it?  Carter placed a trade embargo against the Soviet Union on shipments of groceries such as grain.  That is how a US dimocratic president deals with "the most serious threat to peace since the Second World War." 

International response was just as ineffectual.  As described in Wikipedia, "The international diplomatic response was severe, ranging from stern warnings to a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.  

Fast forward to present day and note, the defeatocrats take on the WOT, Iraq, present day Afghanistan, and Iran.  Like Jimmy Carter and the international community 30 years ago, the dimocrats are fully prepare to give stern warnings to our enemies, in consultation with the UN, of course.

"Charlie Wilson's War" is a terrific book.  I would strongly recommend it, and am looking forward to the movie.  Hopefully, Aaron Sorkin didn't change too much of it.