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Old 02-10-2010, 05:50 PM   #1
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Default Charlie Wilson - Former Congressman and Jihad-Backer, 76

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6860520.html

Charlie Wilson's war is over. Wilson, the Texas congressman whose love of booze, cocaine, women, and secret CIA-run wars supporting Osama bin Laden's friends in Afghanistan was memorialized in a film starring Tom Hanks, has died of a heart attack.
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Old 02-10-2010, 06:22 PM   #2
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damn...so who's next?

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Old 02-10-2010, 06:37 PM   #3
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referencing tard's other thread i'm amazed gibbs hasnt dropped dead by now. then again we've been on a pretty good roll lately with teddy and murtha so hey, fingers crossed
posted just this morning. behold my power!
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posted just this morning. behold my power!
Yeah, sure glad Murtha's dead, WTF did he ever do anyway...

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Mom actually had Charlie as one of her patients a year or so ago in Lufkin Memorial.
I asked if she got to actually talk to him and she said no. Apparently his wife had insisted that she be the only one giving him medicine and handling his direct care.
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Old 02-11-2010, 01:17 AM   #6
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RIP - seemed like a cool cat.
My understanding is that by supporting resistance to the USSR, it helped to bleed them dry in the 80's & contributed significantly to their downfall ('course, I imagine that's extremely simplified & not the whole picture).
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RIP - seemed like a cool cat.
My understanding is that by supporting resistance to the USSR, it helped to bleed them dry in the 80's & contributed significantly to their downfall ('course, I imagine that's extremely simplified & not the whole picture).
you forgot contributed signifigantly to radical islam. Be fair
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I don't think you can really blame him for the down-the-line indirect consequences. At the time, the Soviets were THE enemy. Even if the support of tribal leaders helped make them into the 'powers that be', I don't think it's fair to somehow hold him responsible for jihadist actions that followed (but I concede that there's more to the whole picture than I'm aware of).

But what if the USSR had been able to just roll in & establish a dominant military presence over the oil-producing region (undoubtedly their strategy, I think)? The global picture could be far worse now than it is currently.
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I don't think you can really blame him for the down-the-line indirect consequences. At the time, the Soviets were THE enemy. Even if the support of tribal leaders helped make them into the 'powers that be', I don't think it's fair to somehow hold him responsible for jihadist actions that followed (but I concede that there's more to the whole picture than I'm aware of).

But what if the USSR had been able to just roll in & establish a dominant military presence over the oil-producing region (undoubtedly their strategy, I think)? The global picture could be far worse now than it is currently.
it was effectively their territory at the start of that war. Besides, being on the pointy end of things id rather fight a uniformed enemy that at least conforms to geneva than a group of amatures we arent allowed to shoot who like to lop off heads.
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