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That's my four word review.While Charlie Wilson is a flamboyant character, he was a minor player in securing assistance to the Afghan rebels in their war with the Soviets.President Ronald Reagan, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey, Undersecretary of Defense Fred Ikle, along with a bipartisan coalition led by Texas Democrat Charlie Wilson in the House and New Hampshire Republican Gordon Humphrey in the Senate, provided Stinger missiles to the mujahadeen. (Some feared this action might lead to the missiles' capture and copying by the Soviets.) So you have at least six players, including Reagan, involved — five of them conservative Republicans. I guess they made a movie about Charlie Wilson (widely known as "the liberal from Lufkin") because he was the only Democrat who "got it".I suppose in a Hollywood where "JFK" and "Titanic" are considered good history, we should not expect anything more.

Very curious that Nichols and Hanks would team up for this, obviously they believe it. Strange because it should carry the title "Charlie Wilson's War the Lie.How could the time frame leave out the real history that while ridding Afganistan of the Russians the CIA was providing support for the Taliban, and today's World of Terrorism. In 1990, Bin Laden went home to Saudi Arabia as a hero of jihad, who along with his Arab legion, "had brought down the mighty superpower" of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. To avoid any connection to Osama Bin Laden is to say again, Hollywood cares little for Historical Truth. Charlie Wilson, a patriot, hardly, more like a congressman gone amok.