Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Charlie Wilson’s Worms

Or
Charlie Wilson’s Gone
(Props to Kirsti)

Or
Good-Time Charlie's Got the Blues
(More Merit for Miss Kirsti)

Or
Is Heaven as Great as Texas?
(Additional accolades for Kirsti)

Or
Charlie Wilson's Warm... But Not For Long
(Kudos for Mark)
Charlie Wilson, honorary mujahedeen and Taliban bag man, had died of a heart attack at the age of 76. The 12-term Texas congressman’s playboy ways and covert funding of the Afghan insurgency against the Soviets were actually toned down to make the biopic Charlie Wilson’s War more believable. From his seats on the House Appropriations Committee and its Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Wilson funneled more than $5 billion through humanitarian and military channels to the Afghans, plus Tennessee mules to replace those killed by the Soviets and $12,000 worth of Radio Shack walkie talkies after the CIA wouldn’t send field radios for fear of having transmissions intercepted by the Soviets. Where the humanitarian/patriotic streak came from is anyone’s guess, as he was generally known as Good Time Charlie, the hard-drinking, coke-snorting, drunk-driving, campaign fund-skimming party animal with girlfriends he called Snowflake, Tornado and Firecracker.

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