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Who was actualy behind arming the Mujahideen ? The left says Reagan but non revisionist history says "Charlie Wilson's War."
You know who Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-patriotic liberal) One of the real liberals who didn't come under the GOP tent after the radical left came under the Democrat tent during the ealy 1970's and hid behind the liberal label until they dirtied it and then hijacked the progressive label.
Charlie Wilson's War: How one man changed history
>" In the early summer of 1980, the Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson walked off the floor of the House of Representatives into the Speaker's Lobby. A Teletype at one end spewed out stories from AP, UPI and Reuters. Wilson was a news junkie, and he reached down and began reading a story datelined from Kabul.
The article described hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan as Soviet helicopter gunships levelled villages, slaughtered livestock, and killed anyone who harboured guerrillas resisting the occupation. What caught Wilson's attention, however, was the reporter's conclusion that the Afghan warriors were refusing to quit. The article described how they were murdering Russians in the dead of night with knives and pistols, hitting them over the head with shovels and stones. Against all odds, there was a growing rebellion underway against the Red Army.
It would have been a sobering insight for the Communist rulers if they could have followed what happened in the few minutes after Wilson finished reading the Associated Press dispatch. The mysterious force in the US government that was destined to hound the Red Army with a seemingly limitless flood of ever more lethal weapons was about to be activated.
No one, however, was paying attention, not even in the American government, when Wilson picked up a phone and called the Appropriations Committee staffer who dealt with "black appropriations", the CIA funds..."<
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Charlie Wilson's War: How one man changed history - Features - Films - The Independent
