Charlie Wilson's Real War

There has been quite a hue and cry in the town of Lufkin, Texas in the United States over the death of former Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson, who died Feb. 10 of a heart attack at the age of 76.

Good old Charlie, the subject of a book by George Crile titled "Charlie Wilson's War" and later a movie of the same title, was famous for funneling as much as US…