He was a well known ear markin’ skunk & a drunk, but he was also a pro-military, commie fighting democrat with a knack for the wheel n deal.
"As a long-time member of the House Appropriations Committee, Mr Wilson quietly helped to steer billions of dollars to the CIA, which distributed the funds to buy Afghan fighters high-tech weapons such as Stinger missiles, which were used to shoot down Soviet helicopter gunships.
"I just saw the opportunity to grab the sons o'bitches by the throat," the fiercely anti-communist Mr Wilson told the Dallas Morning News in a 2007 interview."
I could almost vote for a guy like that.
In the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” hollyweird veered dangerously close to a pro-American, CIA cheer against Soviet aggression – but it’s been a downhill race to h3ll ever since.
Wilson also warned against abandoning the Afghans after the Soviet withdrawl, which America did. And we all know how that turned out.
I guess "Good Time" Charlie Wilson(D) was the last of a breed. R.I.P.
