Imperialist Propaganda
Chalmers Johnson, writing for TomDispatch.com, says, "I have some personal knowledge of Congressmen like Charlie Wilson (D-2nd District, Texas, 1973-1996) because, for close to twenty years, my representative in the 50th Congressional District of California was Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham, now serving an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence for soliciting and receiving bribes from defense contractors."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708G.shtml
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Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War
By Chalmers Johnson
It makes the U.S. government look like it is populated by a bunch of whoring, drunken sleazebags, so in that sense it's accurate enough. But there are a number of things both the book and the film are suppressing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19014.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cunningham
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708G.shtml
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Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War
By Chalmers Johnson
It makes the U.S. government look like it is populated by a bunch of whoring, drunken sleazebags, so in that sense it's accurate enough. But there are a number of things both the book and the film are suppressing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19014.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cunningham
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
rudkla - 7. Jan, 22:31
