Shock and Awe (2017) Eng

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(CLEARS THROAT)

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Continuing today's
hearing on future VA funding...

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the Senate Committee on
Veterans' Affairs...

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is called back to order.

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CHAIRMAN: We'll hear from our
next witness.

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Will you please stand
and raise your right hand?

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My apologies.

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Please raise your right hand.

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Do you swear that the testimony
you're about to give...

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this committee will be the
truth, the whole truth...

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and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?

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I do.

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Please state your name.

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Private First Class Adam Green,
United States Army, retired.

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Mr. Green, I understand you've
prepared a statement?

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I have, sir.

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You may enter it into the record
at this time.

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Mr. Chairman, members of the
Committee...

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I want to thank you
for the opportunity...

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to speak with you today.

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I served in the military f...

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I'm sorry, if I could just...

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Sure, go ahead.

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Thank you, sir.

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I've always liked numbers.

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Whenever I have a hard time
wrapping my head around...

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something, I find that numbers
make things clearer for me.

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They help me understand
decisions that are made...

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and the impacts of those
decisions.

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So, if it's all right...

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I'd like the start with the
number 1.4 million.

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That's the number of men
and women...

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who are currently serving
in our military.

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555...

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that's how many days passed
before we invaded one country...

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after having been attacked
by another.

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19... is how old I was when
I enlisted.

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Three is the number of hours
that passed from the time...

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I arrived in Iraq to the time
our transport...

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was destroyed by an I.E.D.

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And then there's six.

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That's the number of inches the
piece of shrapnel was...

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that severed my spinal cord.

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The only problems with numbers
is they can be impersonal.

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A decision you made had a
life-changing impact on me...

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and a lot of soldiers like me.

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Now, I'm not a military expert.

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I don't know a whole lot
about geopolitical affairs.

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I'm just an ordinary American.

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And I understand that you've
asked me here...

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because you all have
some questions for me,

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but if it's all right, I'd like
to ask all of you a question.

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How the hell did this happen?

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BUSH: <i>My fellow citizens,
at this hour...</i>

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<i>American and coalition forces
are in the early stages...</i>

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<i>of military operations
to disarm Iraq, to free...</i>

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<i>its people and to defend
the world from grave danger.</i>

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BLITZER: <i>The start of the
campaign called Shock and Awe.</i>

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BROKAW: <i>Shock and Awe.</i>

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- RATHER: <i>Shock and Awe.</i>
- MAN: <i>Shock and Awe, indeed.</i>

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REPORTER #1: <i>Air raid sirens
are going off in Baghdad...</i>

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REPORTER #2: <i>The massive
military operation...</i>

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<i>to topple Saddam Hussein
is now in effect.</i>

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REPORTER #3:
<i>Firing 600 Cruise missiles...</i>

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<i>and every type of war plane
in the American arsenal.</i>

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BROKAW: <i>A fearsome display
of American military might.</i>

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REPORTER #4:
<i>The scale of this attack...</i>

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<i>is considerably higher than
anything we've seen before.</i>

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REPORTER #5: <i>We're taking out
whole buildings...</i>

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<i>with these Cruise missiles.</i>

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RATHER:
<i>U.S. war planes unleashed...</i>

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<i>to promise massive bombardment
of Baghdad.</i>

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BLITZER: <i>3,000 Tomahawk
Cruise missiles...</i>

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<i>satellite-guided precision
bombs, laser-guided bombs.</i>

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REPORTER #6: <i>I think the
citizens of Baghdad know...</i>

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<i>exactly what the Pentagon
means by Shock and Awe.</i>

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REPORTER #7: <i>Just over the
Kuwait-Iraq border...</i>

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<i>we watched as columns of troops
moved into the country.</i>

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RATHER: <i>They're well on their
way to Baghdad.</i>

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<i>They have met resistance.</i>

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WOMAN: <i>We can't leave the
television...</i>

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<i>every tank, every helicopter...
is that my son?</i>

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REPORTER #8: <i>Now Baghdad is
within striking distance...</i>

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<i>just a few short miles away...</i>

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<i>as U.S. troops make their final
push forward.</i>

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<i>We want to slaughter
them all...</i>

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<i>those invaders, their tombs
will be here in Iraq.</i>

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REPORTER #9: <i>If Saddam Hussein
is alive, he is quote...</i>

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<i>"Not in control of his military
and of his government."</i>

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BUSH: <i>These are opening stages
of what will be a broad...</i>

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<i>and concerted campaign.</i>

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<i>Could be longer and more
difficult than some predict.</i>

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<i>And helping Iraqis achieve
a united, stable...</i>

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<i>and free country will require
our sustained commitment.</i>

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<i>And you can know that our
forces will be coming home...</i>

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<i>as soon as their work is done.</i>

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Keep moving! Keep moving!
Let's go!

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- Where are they taking us?
- Shut up. Head down.

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Keep your mouth shut or I'll
blow your fucking head off.

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- All right, all right.
- Are you a soldier?

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- Journalist.
- Who do you work for?

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- Knight Ridder.
- Never heard of it.

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You should read more.

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What is your name?

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Jonathan Landay.

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Goodbye, Jonathan Landay.

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(TRIGGER CLICKS)

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Exercise complete.

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What you have just engaged in is
called The Gray Man Exercise.

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And what you have just
witnessed...

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is a colossal failure
of that exercise.

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- If a journalist is captured...
- <i>(PHONE RINGING)</i>

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terrorists may keep you alive...

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in hopes of getting information
or exchanging you for a ransom.

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But if you give them a reason
to kill you, they will.

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The purpose of this exercise
is to teach you...

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how to avoid drawing the
attention of your captors.

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Hence the name, Gray Man.

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Can you untie me?

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This could save your life one
day, you understand?

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I do, I've been in 11 war zones,
I've been shot at...

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I've been held captive, I take
this very seriously.

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But if you don't untie me right
now, I may lose my job.

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And I'm fairly certain that
none of this training...

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is going to be very useful...

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when I'm mopping the floor
at Staples.

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REPORTER:
<i>Both of the twin towers...</i>

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<i>the World Trade Center in New
York's lower Manhattan...</i>

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<i>have been struck by planes this
morning within 20 minutes.</i>

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<i>First, it was the North Tower
that was struck...</i>

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<i>with a gaping hole left in two
sides of that building.</i>

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Good God.

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<i>20 minutes later, the second
building...</i>

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<i>the second tower in that World
Trade Center complex...</i>

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I think we should keep Elizabeth
in school.

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Yeah, no, I think that's
a good idea.

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Why freak her out, huh?

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And I'll call Ali and Jennifer
as soon as the phones open up.

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- I love you.
- I love you.

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Okay.

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REPORTER:
<i>We should tell you that...</i>

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<i>we have gotten calls from
people...</i>

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<i>who live and work around the
Pentagon who have told us...</i>

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<i>that they have seen
something...</i>

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<i>that they have described
as an explosion.</i>

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<i>This is information we have not
been able to confirm.</i>

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Get up.

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Sorry, Dad.

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Monday Night Football went long.

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Let's clean this place up.

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COMMENTATOR: <i>Trade Center
here in New York...</i>

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<i>have been hit by airplanes.</i>

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<i>In Washington, there is a large
fire at the Pentagon.</i>

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<i>The Pentagon has been
evacuated.</i>

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<i>And there is, you can see,
perhaps, the second tower...</i>

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<i>the front tower, the top
portion of which is collapsing.</i>

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<i>Good Lord.</i>

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Lot of people going to need
a drink tonight.

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Soldiers drink free.

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REPORTER:
<i>There are no words.</i>

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<i>All federal office buildings
now...</i>

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<i>all federal office buildings
in Washington, D.C.</i>

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<i>are being evacuated as we speak
to you now.</i>

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<i>We are in the middle of an
extraordinary catastrophe.</i>

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<i>The most important things to
tell you if you just joined...</i>

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<i>in is that what has all the
makings of an extraordinarily..</i>

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<i>well-planned terrorist attack
on both Washington and New York</i>

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<i>has taken place this morning.</i>

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<i>The Trade Centers here
in New York...</i>

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<i>the two World Trade Center
towers have collapsed...</i>

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<i>after being hit by planes.</i>

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Yeah, this is John Walcott
from Knight Ridder.

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Is he there?

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Yeah, okay, well, tell him
I'll try him back later.

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Thank you.

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I just spoke with my wife.

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She and the kids are
afraid to leave the house.

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What are they doing over there?

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They're watching the White
House.

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To see if it gets hit?

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Yes.

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Oh, Jesus. All right, go home
to your family.

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And tell your colleagues that
maybe they want to stay away...

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from the windows, okay?

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- Thanks, John.
- Yeah.

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Okay. All right. Okay.

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<i>Their working thesis is that
this is overseas terrorism...</i>

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<i>not domestic.</i>

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<i>Attention will quickly turn to
the bin Laden group...</i>

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<i>because it has long
tentacles.</i>

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<i>There are very few others that
could have pulled this off.</i>

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Are we sending somebody
to New York?

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Ken Moore at Suvu was already up
there covering Wall Street.

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What's going on over at State?

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Powell's in Peru.

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They're working on getting
him home as soon as possible.

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All right, what we need to do
is track the President.

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Track his top people
and find out...

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who's responsible for all this.

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We need as many sources
at as many agencies...

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to go on the record and tell us
all what we know has to be true.

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Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda!
It's Al Qaeda.

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It's definitely Al Qaeda.

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What the hell are you wearing?

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Well, the wifey wanted
to evacuate...

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but she locked the cat
and the keys in the cars.

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So, I biked in.

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We need to know how
they pulled this off.

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Anybody needs to go home
to their family...

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feel free to do so.

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Just came from the family.

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Let's get to work.

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It's Walcott.

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<i>Today, our fellow citizens,
our way of life...</i>

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<i>our very freedom, came under
attack in a series...</i>

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<i>of deliberate and deadly
terrorist acts.</i>

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Adam, hand me the
Jameson, please.

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Yes, sir. Here you go.

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Thank you, son.

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It's on the house, gentlemen.

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Thanks.

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Dad's saying we're staying open
as late as they want.

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MRS. GREEN:
They must be scared.

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- ADAM: They're Rangers.
- They're boys.

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<i>Our military is powerful and
it's prepared.</i>

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<i>The search is underway
for those...</i>

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<i>who are behind these evil acts.</i>

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<i>I've directed the full
resources of our intelligence..</i>

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<i>and law enforcement communities
to find those responsible...</i>

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<i>and to bring them to justice.</i>

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JENNINGS: <i>It's been 33 hours
since the terrible...</i>

233
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<i>and unprecedented attack
on the United States.</i>

234
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<i>There is, as we've said, an
enormous search and rescue...</i>

235
00:13:26,445 --> 00:13:31,149
<i>operation, and enormous and
intense criminal investigation.</i>

236
00:13:31,151 --> 00:13:32,616
<i>And we're just beginning
to understand...</i>

237
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<i>the extents of the catastrophe.</i>

238
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OFFICIAL: I feel like I haven't
slept in a month.

239
00:13:37,190 --> 00:13:39,122
It's going to be a bunch
of zombies running this town.

240
00:13:39,124 --> 00:13:40,591
What do you know about
the preliminary plans...

241
00:13:40,593 --> 00:13:42,260
to go after bin Laden?

242
00:13:42,262 --> 00:13:44,194
I don't have anything to give
you on that yet.

243
00:13:44,196 --> 00:13:46,264
Ok, well, how long before we're
on the ground in Afghanistan...

244
00:13:46,266 --> 00:13:48,131
and how long do they project
we'll be there?

245
00:13:48,133 --> 00:13:51,635
Look, I'm trying to get answers
to the same questions you are.

246
00:13:51,637 --> 00:13:54,739
What I can say is, most of the
talk this morning...

247
00:13:54,741 --> 00:13:57,308
hasn't been about Afghanistan.

248
00:13:57,310 --> 00:13:59,113
Well, what's it been about?

249
00:14:00,747 --> 00:14:02,447
Iraq?

250
00:14:02,449 --> 00:14:04,481
I got it from a source at State
who got it from the Pentagon.

251
00:14:04,483 --> 00:14:07,150
In connection with the attacks?

252
00:14:07,152 --> 00:14:09,287
Crackpot theories from people
who don't know...

253
00:14:09,289 --> 00:14:10,587
what the hell they're talking
about.

254
00:14:10,589 --> 00:14:12,189
It was Rumsfeld.

255
00:14:12,191 --> 00:14:13,757
Really?

256
00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:16,193
Yeah, apparently, there's a lot
of people over at Defense...

257
00:14:16,195 --> 00:14:18,496
that think this had to be
State-sponsored.

258
00:14:18,498 --> 00:14:22,100
I mean, not just Rumsfeld,
there's also that smug...

259
00:14:22,102 --> 00:14:25,202
son of a bitch at the Defense
Policy Board...

260
00:14:25,204 --> 00:14:26,603
the Prince of Darkness?

261
00:14:26,605 --> 00:14:28,539
- Richard Perle.
- Right. Perle.

262
00:14:28,541 --> 00:14:30,774
And that neo-con over at the
Project...

263
00:14:30,776 --> 00:14:33,311
for the New American
whatever the fuck...

264
00:14:33,313 --> 00:14:34,645
New American Century,
Bill Kristol.

265
00:14:34,647 --> 00:14:36,481
That giant butthole,
Bill Kristol.

266
00:14:36,483 --> 00:14:40,351
And he's got to be creaming his
little jammies over this.

267
00:14:40,353 --> 00:14:42,186
Yeah, these think-tank boys...

268
00:14:42,188 --> 00:14:44,322
have been trying to push out
Saddam Hussein since '97.

269
00:14:44,324 --> 00:14:48,292
They have this crazy theory that
if they can just stick...

270
00:14:48,294 --> 00:14:50,361
a Western-style of democracy in
the Middle East...

271
00:14:50,363 --> 00:14:52,730
it's going to magically
proliferate...

272
00:14:52,732 --> 00:14:54,399
and wind up protecting Israel.

273
00:14:54,401 --> 00:14:56,768
You got to give them credit
for creative thinking.

274
00:14:56,770 --> 00:14:59,236
It's Ivory Tower crap.

275
00:14:59,238 --> 00:15:02,140
I mean, in what world do they
think that Osama bin Laden...

276
00:15:02,142 --> 00:15:04,775
and Saddam Hussein hatched
this thing up together?

277
00:15:04,777 --> 00:15:06,811
Let's find out if these
dickweeds...

278
00:15:06,813 --> 00:15:09,813
are serious about Iraq, okay?

279
00:15:09,815 --> 00:15:11,616
Look, I'm not saying there's
a link to Iraq...

280
00:15:11,618 --> 00:15:13,183
and neither is my boss.

281
00:15:13,185 --> 00:15:14,452
This is just something
we're hearing.

282
00:15:14,454 --> 00:15:15,752
From whom?

283
00:15:15,754 --> 00:15:18,121
Who told me or where is it
coming from?

284
00:15:18,123 --> 00:15:19,557
Take your pick.

285
00:15:19,559 --> 00:15:21,092
Someone at the Pentagon.

286
00:15:21,094 --> 00:15:23,093
In the Vice President's office?

287
00:15:23,095 --> 00:15:24,428
It's just theories.

288
00:15:24,430 --> 00:15:26,430
Are there any Senators talking
to anyone...

289
00:15:26,432 --> 00:15:28,632
saying anything different?

290
00:15:28,634 --> 00:15:30,268
I know Powell's objected...

291
00:15:30,270 --> 00:15:33,737
to going into anywhere other
than Afghanistan.

292
00:15:33,739 --> 00:15:37,243
<i>(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)</i>

293
00:16:05,338 --> 00:16:06,404
Go away.

294
00:16:06,406 --> 00:16:07,737
One question and I'm gone.

295
00:16:07,739 --> 00:16:09,473
I'm not talking to you
on the record.

296
00:16:09,475 --> 00:16:13,046
Anonymous source, intelligence
community.

297
00:16:14,214 --> 00:16:15,712
You can't use my name.

298
00:16:15,714 --> 00:16:18,149
Never have, never will.

299
00:16:18,151 --> 00:16:19,116
Or my agency.

300
00:16:19,118 --> 00:16:21,055
Pinky swear.

301
00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:25,890
One question.

302
00:16:25,892 --> 00:16:28,796
Are you looking into an Iraqi
connection?

303
00:16:30,796 --> 00:16:33,530
Who's the you in that question?

304
00:16:33,532 --> 00:16:35,298
Are we in the United States?

305
00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:36,833
There are some people.

306
00:16:36,835 --> 00:16:38,468
Are we in my agency?

307
00:16:38,470 --> 00:16:40,371
Not that I'm aware of.

308
00:16:40,373 --> 00:16:42,874
Am I, personally?

309
00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:45,342
No way.

310
00:16:45,344 --> 00:16:47,377
Okay, the second part
to the question.

311
00:16:47,379 --> 00:16:48,513
No.

312
00:16:48,515 --> 00:16:50,184
Thank you.

313
00:16:52,484 --> 00:16:54,751
So, no one you work with at the
Library of Congress has ever...

314
00:16:54,753 --> 00:16:56,821
found a link between Saddam
Hussein and Al Qaeda?

315
00:16:56,823 --> 00:16:59,524
No one I work with
would expect to find a link.

316
00:16:59,526 --> 00:17:01,324
So, as far as you know...

317
00:17:01,326 --> 00:17:02,793
there's nothing substantial to
tie Iraq to bin Laden?

318
00:17:02,795 --> 00:17:04,461
There's nothing even
circumstantial.

319
00:17:04,463 --> 00:17:06,496
To lump together a secular
leader like Saddam...

320
00:17:06,498 --> 00:17:09,499
with an Islamic extremist
like bin Laden is simply...

321
00:17:09,501 --> 00:17:11,637
to have no understanding
of the Muslim world.

322
00:17:15,941 --> 00:17:17,874
It's a bit timid.

323
00:17:17,876 --> 00:17:19,944
No one's actually come out and
said anything publicly yet.

324
00:17:19,946 --> 00:17:21,946
Maybe it's just backroom
speculation.

325
00:17:21,948 --> 00:17:23,480
Pretty dangerous speculation.

326
00:17:23,482 --> 00:17:25,483
Can't we hit it harder than
this?

327
00:17:25,485 --> 00:17:27,418
The attacks were just 10 days
ago.

328
00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:28,553
Everyone's trying to play
catch-up.

329
00:17:28,555 --> 00:17:30,487
Got to press our reliables.

330
00:17:30,489 --> 00:17:32,489
I'll reach out to The Italian
Lady.

331
00:17:32,491 --> 00:17:34,492
You think you can get Loose
Nukes to go on the record?

332
00:17:34,494 --> 00:17:36,761
I'm lucky to get her on deep
background.

333
00:17:36,763 --> 00:17:40,497
Well, double down on the Charm
Offensive.

334
00:17:40,499 --> 00:17:43,266
<i>Buongiorno,</i> this is Warren
Strobel.

335
00:17:43,268 --> 00:17:46,536
I was looking to get your advice
on a critical scheduling matter.

336
00:17:46,538 --> 00:17:49,607
If you could contact me at your
earliest possible convenience...

337
00:17:49,609 --> 00:17:52,576
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.

338
00:17:52,578 --> 00:17:53,710
LOOSE NUKES: <i>Hello.</i>

339
00:17:53,712 --> 00:17:55,513
Yeah, hi, it's Jonathan.

340
00:17:55,515 --> 00:17:56,980
LOOSE NUKES: <i>I don't have
anything for you.</i>

341
00:17:56,982 --> 00:18:00,418
No, I know, I know, but I'm
doing a story...

342
00:18:00,420 --> 00:18:02,786
on the administration's seeming
interest in Iraq.

343
00:18:02,788 --> 00:18:04,788
LOOSE NUKES: <i>Jonathan, we're
not going to talk about this.</i>

344
00:18:04,790 --> 00:18:07,691
No, I know, I know I'm not
talking about this...

345
00:18:07,693 --> 00:18:10,995
because it's off the record, but
can you give me some indication?

346
00:18:10,997 --> 00:18:12,365
LOOSE NUKES: <i>Bye, Jonathan.</i>

347
00:18:14,366 --> 00:18:15,699
What'd she say?

348
00:18:15,701 --> 00:18:18,236
She sends her love.

349
00:18:18,238 --> 00:18:19,637
ANNOUNCER:
<i>Across the nation...</i>

350
00:18:19,639 --> 00:18:21,572
<i>flags have been flying off
the shelves.</i>

351
00:18:21,574 --> 00:18:25,476
<i>A wave of patriotism has been
spreading across America.</i>

352
00:18:25,478 --> 00:18:29,280
<i>At times like this,
it's what we do in America.</i>

353
00:18:29,282 --> 00:18:32,682
<i>We the People pull together.</i>

354
00:18:32,684 --> 00:18:34,685
They had a discussion in school
today...

355
00:18:34,687 --> 00:18:37,420
about why America is so great,
right?

356
00:18:37,422 --> 00:18:38,889
Yeah, and what'd you say?

357
00:18:38,891 --> 00:18:40,490
It's a free country.

358
00:18:40,492 --> 00:18:41,926
That's a great answer.

359
00:18:41,928 --> 00:18:43,526
That's Mama's boy.

360
00:18:43,528 --> 00:18:45,295
May I be done now?

361
00:18:45,297 --> 00:18:47,297
Not until I get a big hug.

362
00:18:47,299 --> 00:18:50,400
Okay, after your mom gets a hug.

363
00:18:50,402 --> 00:18:51,971
Oh, whoa!

364
00:18:54,673 --> 00:18:56,306
Proud of you, munchie.

365
00:18:56,308 --> 00:18:58,211
Love you.

366
00:19:00,446 --> 00:19:04,047
They're really pushing this
nationalism thing at school.

367
00:19:04,049 --> 00:19:05,815
What do you expect?

368
00:19:05,817 --> 00:19:07,618
Of course, there's
going to be patriotism now.

369
00:19:07,620 --> 00:19:11,421
Oh, you want to call it
patriotism?

370
00:19:11,423 --> 00:19:12,922
Fine.

371
00:19:12,924 --> 00:19:14,691
It smells a lot like
nationalism to me.

372
00:19:14,693 --> 00:19:19,663
That's how it started in
Yugoslavia before the war.

373
00:19:19,665 --> 00:19:21,634
Tore my country apart.

374
00:19:44,957 --> 00:19:47,891
You want some help?

375
00:19:47,893 --> 00:19:50,529
No, I'm okay, thank you.

376
00:19:52,664 --> 00:19:54,631
Okay, have a good night.

377
00:19:54,633 --> 00:19:55,635
Good night.

378
00:20:03,543 --> 00:20:05,909
How real is the Iraqi
conversation?

379
00:20:05,911 --> 00:20:07,911
There's an argument
taking place.

380
00:20:07,913 --> 00:20:10,848
Yeah? Who's winning it?

381
00:20:10,850 --> 00:20:12,615
I couldn't say.

382
00:20:12,617 --> 00:20:16,853
Look, my boss is gonna send me
to Afghanistan, and all I want..

383
00:20:16,855 --> 00:20:20,390
to know is should he be buying
a roundtrip ticket...

384
00:20:20,392 --> 00:20:24,597
or is Afghanistan just a
layover on the way to Baghdad?

385
00:20:28,700 --> 00:20:31,468
I can't tell you anything.

386
00:20:31,470 --> 00:20:33,504
MYLROIE: <i>I believe major acts
of terrorism...</i>

387
00:20:33,506 --> 00:20:36,607
<i>against the U.S. are
state-sponsored.</i>

388
00:20:36,609 --> 00:20:39,810
<i>So, we asked ourselves,
"Who could have been behind...</i>

389
00:20:39,812 --> 00:20:42,746
<i>the most massive terrorist
assault in human history...</i>

390
00:20:42,748 --> 00:20:44,648
<i>"which state?"</i>

391
00:20:44,650 --> 00:20:49,853
<i>I think Iraq is the state that
most immediately comes to mind.</i>

392
00:20:49,855 --> 00:20:52,656
- <i>This is an idea which in...</i>
- <i>(PHONE RINGING)</i>

393
00:20:52,658 --> 00:20:54,725
<i>is gaining increased
credibility.</i>

394
00:20:54,727 --> 00:20:56,627
Knight Ridder, it's Strobel.

395
00:20:56,629 --> 00:20:58,094
THE ITALIAN LADY: <i>Jim Woolsey
is going to Europe...</i>

396
00:20:58,096 --> 00:20:59,830
<i>to try to find a link
between Saddam...</i>

397
00:20:59,832 --> 00:21:02,602
<i>and the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing.</i>

398
00:21:03,769 --> 00:21:05,636
Is he freelancing?

399
00:21:05,638 --> 00:21:07,772
THE ITALIAN LADY: <i>He was sent
on an official government jet.</i>

400
00:21:07,774 --> 00:21:10,006
Jesus, who sent him?

401
00:21:10,008 --> 00:21:12,709
THE ITALIAN LADY:
<i>The deputy defense secretary.</i>

402
00:21:12,711 --> 00:21:14,911
Can you meet for coffee?

403
00:21:14,913 --> 00:21:16,450
THE ITALIAN LADY:
<i>I'll be in touch.</i>

404
00:21:17,883 --> 00:21:19,883
Hi, this is Warren
Strobel with Knight Ridder.

405
00:21:19,885 --> 00:21:21,619
I'm working on a story...

406
00:21:21,621 --> 00:21:23,187
about former CIA director James
Woolsey traveling to Europe.

407
00:21:23,189 --> 00:21:25,188
Do you know anything about that?

408
00:21:25,190 --> 00:21:28,191
DIPLOMAT: <i>I didn't have
anything to do with that.</i>

409
00:21:28,193 --> 00:21:30,194
But you're aware that such
a trip has taken place?

410
00:21:30,196 --> 00:21:33,730
DIPLOMAT: <i>I can't be your only
source on this.</i>

411
00:21:33,732 --> 00:21:35,901
All right, stay in touch.

412
00:21:37,702 --> 00:21:40,470
Hey, John.

413
00:21:40,472 --> 00:21:42,605
Woolsey was sent to Europe
to look for evidence...

414
00:21:42,607 --> 00:21:45,543
linking Saddam to the World
Trade Center bombing in '93.

415
00:21:45,545 --> 00:21:48,711
Wouldn't be a fool's errand if
they didn't send a fool.

416
00:21:48,713 --> 00:21:50,547
This came from The Italian Lady?

417
00:21:50,549 --> 00:21:51,748
And a diplomat who can
confirm...

418
00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:53,082
the trip was arranged by
Wolfowitz.

419
00:21:53,084 --> 00:21:54,752
What the hell is going on
over at Defense?

420
00:21:54,754 --> 00:21:56,786
Question is, are they trying to
figure out...

421
00:21:56,788 --> 00:21:58,555
if there's any truth to their
theory...

422
00:21:58,557 --> 00:22:01,191
or are they already convinced
their theory is true?

423
00:22:01,193 --> 00:22:02,927
You're sure about
this Woolsey trip?

424
00:22:02,929 --> 00:22:04,928
- Positive.
- You have a third source?

425
00:22:04,930 --> 00:22:06,030
- Yeah.
- Who?

426
00:22:06,032 --> 00:22:07,834
Jim Woolsey.

427
00:22:20,112 --> 00:22:23,917
Hey, it's Walcott,
you up for a field trip?

428
00:22:26,786 --> 00:22:28,752
I figured you'd be calling...

429
00:22:28,754 --> 00:22:30,557
I just didn't think
it would be this soon.

430
00:22:33,659 --> 00:22:35,758
How real is the chatter
about Iraq?

431
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,628
Very.

432
00:22:37,630 --> 00:22:41,532
And it's diverting our attention
from the people who attacked us.

433
00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:44,171
How soon before Iraq becomes
the focus?

434
00:22:45,904 --> 00:22:48,639
We need to blow something up.

435
00:22:48,641 --> 00:22:50,674
Not enough targets in
Afghanistan.

436
00:22:50,676 --> 00:22:51,809
What about bin Laden?

437
00:22:51,811 --> 00:22:53,276
You take out bin Laden...

438
00:22:53,278 --> 00:22:55,714
interest in the war goes right
down the shitter.

439
00:22:57,650 --> 00:23:00,851
REPORTER: <i>A joint offensive in
its sixth day in Tora Bora...</i>

440
00:23:00,853 --> 00:23:02,820
<i>bin Laden's suspected
hideout...</i>

441
00:23:02,822 --> 00:23:05,589
<i>but still no signs of the
world's most wanted man.</i>

442
00:23:05,591 --> 00:23:09,159
<i>U.S. B-52s pounding Al Qaeda
positions from the air...</i>

443
00:23:09,161 --> 00:23:10,894
<i>while anti-Taliban tanks...</i>

444
00:23:10,896 --> 00:23:12,696
<i>and troops meet strong
resistance...</i>

445
00:23:12,698 --> 00:23:15,131
<i>cave to cave,
from Al Qaeda fighters.</i>

446
00:23:15,133 --> 00:23:17,001
<i>With yet more conflicting
reports...</i>

447
00:23:17,003 --> 00:23:19,005
<i>on bin Laden's whereabouts.</i>

448
00:23:20,940 --> 00:23:22,672
What you got there...

449
00:23:22,674 --> 00:23:24,675
is that your State of the
Union piece for tomorrow?

450
00:23:24,677 --> 00:23:26,709
- Yup.
- You got a lunch today?

451
00:23:26,711 --> 00:23:28,879
Not with you.

452
00:23:28,881 --> 00:23:30,980
I got a one-on-one with Looney
Tunes over at State.

453
00:23:30,982 --> 00:23:32,582
There's a dry hole.

454
00:23:32,584 --> 00:23:34,284
Yeah, well, I figured if I just
let him ramble on...

455
00:23:34,286 --> 00:23:36,320
he'll accidentally stumble
into something newsworthy.

456
00:23:36,322 --> 00:23:37,755
Yeah, well, give my best.

457
00:23:37,757 --> 00:23:39,790
I will. Hot off the presses,
Beryl.

458
00:23:39,792 --> 00:23:41,225
Did you use punctuation
this time?

459
00:23:41,227 --> 00:23:43,159
I even threw in a few semicolons
just for you.

460
00:23:43,161 --> 00:23:46,764
I bet you're the pride of the
University of Missouri.

461
00:23:46,766 --> 00:23:50,801
<i>Terrorists who once occupied
Afghanistan...</i>

462
00:23:50,803 --> 00:23:53,672
<i>now occupy cells
at Guantanamo Bay.</i>

463
00:23:56,909 --> 00:23:59,976
<i>And terrorist leaders who urged
followers to sacrifice...</i>

464
00:23:59,978 --> 00:24:03,280
<i>their lives are running'
for their own.</i>

465
00:24:03,282 --> 00:24:07,851
Now, the administration's top
priority apart from our own...

466
00:24:07,853 --> 00:24:11,788
security is to ensure
freedom for other countries...

467
00:24:11,790 --> 00:24:16,060
looking to embrace democracy
as a way of life.

468
00:24:16,062 --> 00:24:18,861
Now, we... excuse me... we
understand that we can't...

469
00:24:18,863 --> 00:24:20,863
be the policemen to the world...

470
00:24:20,865 --> 00:24:23,266
but we feel we
have a responsibility to...

471
00:24:23,268 --> 00:24:24,668
Yeah, John Walcott.

472
00:24:24,670 --> 00:24:26,102
DIXIE: <i>John!</i>

473
00:24:26,104 --> 00:24:27,236
Dixie?

474
00:24:27,238 --> 00:24:28,706
DIXIE: <i>John, can you hear me?</i>

475
00:24:28,708 --> 00:24:30,239
Yeah, yeah, I can hear you.

476
00:24:30,241 --> 00:24:32,610
I got a call from one of
our boys downrange today...

477
00:24:32,612 --> 00:24:34,178
asking me what the fuck's
going on.

478
00:24:34,180 --> 00:24:35,979
Are you still in Afghanistan?

479
00:24:35,981 --> 00:24:37,614
Yeah, I'm in Afghanistan...

480
00:24:37,616 --> 00:24:39,115
but nobody knows what the
mission is anymore.

481
00:24:39,117 --> 00:24:41,051
How do you bomb a country back
into the Stone Age...

482
00:24:41,053 --> 00:24:43,219
that's already in the middle
of the goddamn Stone Age?

483
00:24:43,221 --> 00:24:46,357
<i>Our second goal is to prevent
regimes that sponsor terror...</i>

484
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,727
<i>from threatening America,
or our friends and allies...</i>

485
00:24:50,729 --> 00:24:52,630
<i>with weapons of mass
destruction.</i>

486
00:24:52,632 --> 00:24:56,667
We believe that Afghanistan
is ripe for freedom.

487
00:24:56,669 --> 00:25:00,070
Now, this is a country that has
been struggling to free...

488
00:25:00,072 --> 00:25:03,273
<i>itself from the repressive grip
of the Taliban for years.</i>

489
00:25:03,275 --> 00:25:06,643
We've got bin Laden on the run
and they're diverting my assets.

490
00:25:06,645 --> 00:25:08,411
We may never get him in our
crosshairs again.

491
00:25:08,413 --> 00:25:11,982
Whoa, whoa, wait, they're
diverting your assets to where?

492
00:25:11,984 --> 00:25:14,284
<i>Some of these regimes have been
pretty quiet since...</i>

493
00:25:14,286 --> 00:25:18,121
<i>September the 11th, but we know
their true nature.</i>

494
00:25:18,123 --> 00:25:21,958
You know, it's a country in
desperate need of the kind...

495
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,961
of stability that comes with the
rule of law.

496
00:25:24,963 --> 00:25:28,966
<i>North Korea, Iran, Iraq...
states like these...</i>

497
00:25:28,968 --> 00:25:33,871
<i>and their terrorist allies
constitute an axis of evil...</i>

498
00:25:33,873 --> 00:25:35,938
<i>arming to threaten the
peace of the world.</i>

499
00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:37,675
You'll have to excuse me...

500
00:25:37,677 --> 00:25:40,244
Warren, but I have to prepare
a briefing for Secretary Powell.

501
00:25:40,246 --> 00:25:41,245
Sure.

502
00:25:41,247 --> 00:25:42,412
Anything else you need from me?

503
00:25:42,414 --> 00:25:44,180
No, no, thank you.

504
00:25:44,182 --> 00:25:45,983
I think you've given me
more than enough to chew on.

505
00:25:45,985 --> 00:25:47,316
Excellent.

506
00:25:47,318 --> 00:25:48,951
And you feel confident that
Afghanistan...

507
00:25:48,953 --> 00:25:50,286
will accept a Western-style
democracy?

508
00:25:50,288 --> 00:25:51,788
Oh, absolutely.

509
00:25:51,790 --> 00:25:54,291
Just as confident as
we are about Iraq.

510
00:25:54,293 --> 00:25:58,062
Sounds like the debate on Iraq
is getting serious.

511
00:25:58,064 --> 00:26:00,863
Oh, no, no, no, that debate
is over.

512
00:26:00,865 --> 00:26:04,200
Saddam's got to go,
the only question is how.

513
00:26:04,202 --> 00:26:05,369
Good talking to you, Warren.

514
00:26:05,371 --> 00:26:07,273
Yeah, you, too, sir.

515
00:26:09,441 --> 00:26:11,207
The president
is going to invade Iraq.

516
00:26:11,209 --> 00:26:12,942
WALCOTT:
<i>You got this from Looney Tunes?</i>

517
00:26:12,944 --> 00:26:15,044
Yeah, and confirmed by a
diplomat who says he met...

518
00:26:15,046 --> 00:26:18,148
with Bush, and a foreign leader
recently who came away with...

519
00:26:18,150 --> 00:26:21,485
"The feeling that a decision has
been made to strike Iraq."

520
00:26:21,487 --> 00:26:23,786
Do you think we can get enough
to run the story?

521
00:26:23,788 --> 00:26:25,924
Unfortunately, I do.

522
00:26:38,804 --> 00:26:40,403
So much for the ceasefire.

523
00:26:40,405 --> 00:26:42,206
Yeah, well, really nice of us...

524
00:26:42,208 --> 00:26:44,844
to temporarily stop shooting
at them, though.

525
00:26:56,255 --> 00:26:59,022
♪ I've been bound up
and wound up ♪

526
00:26:59,024 --> 00:27:01,190
♪ Could barely get a sound up ♪

527
00:27:01,192 --> 00:27:02,993
♪ Been cheated mistreated ♪

528
00:27:02,995 --> 00:27:05,763
♪ Don't even want to
think of it ♪

529
00:27:05,765 --> 00:27:07,765
What are you up to, Smucker?

530
00:27:07,767 --> 00:27:11,001
You know, I tried to chat
with your translator today.

531
00:27:11,003 --> 00:27:12,535
Yeah, how'd that go?

532
00:27:12,537 --> 00:27:15,272
Well, for a guy who gets paid
to talk for a living...

533
00:27:15,274 --> 00:27:17,975
he was unusually quiet.

534
00:27:17,977 --> 00:27:20,310
He only talks to me.

535
00:27:20,312 --> 00:27:24,413
Really? And what'd he tell you?

536
00:27:24,415 --> 00:27:27,383
Dollar, I'll let you read
all about it.

537
00:27:27,385 --> 00:27:31,455
Let me see it.

538
00:27:31,457 --> 00:27:35,559
bin Laden's gone, isn't he?

539
00:27:35,561 --> 00:27:39,095
They missed him, didn't they?

540
00:27:39,097 --> 00:27:43,368
He was here and they fucking
missed him!

541
00:27:45,403 --> 00:27:47,236
REPORTER: <i>A senior U.S.
military official...</i>

542
00:27:47,238 --> 00:27:49,473
<i>tells NBC News "Despite the
crushing defeat...</i>

543
00:27:49,475 --> 00:27:51,408
<i>"of Al Qaeda forces
at Tora Bora...</i>

544
00:27:51,410 --> 00:27:54,410
<i>"it's believed now that Osama
bin Laden has slipped...</i>

545
00:27:54,412 --> 00:27:56,947
<i>"across the border into
Pakistan, seeking refuge...</i>

546
00:27:56,949 --> 00:27:58,515
<i>"in a lawless no man's land...</i>

547
00:27:58,517 --> 00:28:01,351
<i>"ruled by renegade tribal
warlords."</i>

548
00:28:01,353 --> 00:28:03,253
Oh, it's official...

549
00:28:03,255 --> 00:28:06,089
this is the saddest event
I've ever attended.

550
00:28:06,091 --> 00:28:08,057
I'm going back to my apartment,
drink a bottle of wine...

551
00:28:08,059 --> 00:28:09,325
and put my head in the oven.

552
00:28:09,327 --> 00:28:11,128
Okay, but before you do that...

553
00:28:11,130 --> 00:28:14,096
I really want you to meet the
guy I was telling you about.

554
00:28:14,098 --> 00:28:16,065
Oh! He just walked in!

555
00:28:16,067 --> 00:28:18,067
Forget the wine, I'll kill
myself now.

556
00:28:18,069 --> 00:28:22,371
No, not him... him.
I'll introduce you.

557
00:28:22,373 --> 00:28:23,506
Pam, please don't.

558
00:28:23,508 --> 00:28:26,409
- Warren! Hey!
- Oh, hi.

559
00:28:26,411 --> 00:28:28,211
Glad you could make it,
come on over.

560
00:28:28,213 --> 00:28:31,582
Warren, this is a
good friend of mine, Lisa Mayr.

561
00:28:31,584 --> 00:28:33,449
Lisa, this is Warren Strobel,
he's a journalist...

562
00:28:33,451 --> 00:28:35,121
and I'm gonna get another drink.

563
00:28:37,355 --> 00:28:39,022
Hi, uh, Lisa?

564
00:28:39,024 --> 00:28:40,457
- Yeah.
- Yeah, nice to meet you.

565
00:28:40,459 --> 00:28:42,128
- Hi.
- Uh...

566
00:28:43,461 --> 00:28:46,463
Did you ever make it
into your apartment?

567
00:28:46,465 --> 00:28:50,967
Uh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
no, no, no, I'm sorry.

568
00:28:50,969 --> 00:28:54,406
- Yeah, I made it in okay.
- Good. Good.

569
00:28:56,141 --> 00:28:58,274
So, you're a journalist?

570
00:28:58,276 --> 00:29:01,143
Yeah, yeah, for Knight Ridder.

571
00:29:01,145 --> 00:29:03,947
Oh, is that a magazine
or a newspaper?

572
00:29:03,949 --> 00:29:09,052
It's actually a consortium
of 31 newspapers, actually.

573
00:29:09,054 --> 00:29:10,586
Well, my stories go out to all
of our newspapers...

574
00:29:10,588 --> 00:29:14,091
and each one has the option
to publish or not.

575
00:29:14,093 --> 00:29:17,127
Oh, okay. I've always wondered
how that worked.

576
00:29:17,129 --> 00:29:18,430
Yeah.

577
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,669
Hey, I got married when
I was 22.

578
00:29:25,671 --> 00:29:29,339
And we're only recently
separated, so...

579
00:29:29,341 --> 00:29:31,941
This is a little awkward for me.

580
00:29:31,943 --> 00:29:33,310
It's okay.

581
00:29:33,312 --> 00:29:35,245
I'm a little out of practice.

582
00:29:35,247 --> 00:29:39,082
Why don't you start
by asking me a question?

583
00:29:39,084 --> 00:29:41,854
Sure, yeah.

584
00:29:43,655 --> 00:29:45,924
Are you a Republican
or a Democrat?

585
00:29:47,426 --> 00:29:49,258
Try again.

586
00:29:49,260 --> 00:29:52,295
Yeah, of course, she wants you
to call her.

587
00:29:52,297 --> 00:29:54,031
She gave you her card.

588
00:29:54,033 --> 00:29:56,166
No, maybe she's just trying
to gin up business.

589
00:29:56,168 --> 00:29:58,669
At a singles mixer
on Valentine's Day?

590
00:29:58,671 --> 00:30:00,938
What? So, call her? I should
call her?

591
00:30:00,940 --> 00:30:02,973
What? No, no, no,
actually, let her dangle.

592
00:30:02,975 --> 00:30:04,941
There's nothing a woman in her
30s likes more...

593
00:30:04,943 --> 00:30:07,177
than a guy who takes his time.

594
00:30:07,179 --> 00:30:09,012
I'm fine, Arthur, I'm fine.

595
00:30:09,014 --> 00:30:11,480
It's just that I'm getting a
little tired...

596
00:30:11,482 --> 00:30:13,417
of picking up your paper
every morning...

597
00:30:13,419 --> 00:30:15,384
and seeing that you're not
running our stories.

598
00:30:15,386 --> 00:30:17,219
I mean, last time I looked...

599
00:30:17,221 --> 00:30:21,057
The Philadelphia Inquirer was
a Knight Ridder paper, right?

600
00:30:21,059 --> 00:30:24,961
The point is, there's no point
in being a Knight Ridder paper..

601
00:30:24,963 --> 00:30:26,697
if you're not going to run
Knight Ridder stories.

602
00:30:26,699 --> 00:30:28,732
John, we've been through
this already.

603
00:30:28,734 --> 00:30:30,434
Your stories don't fit...

604
00:30:30,436 --> 00:30:33,269
in with what we're doing
over here right now.

605
00:30:33,271 --> 00:30:35,371
Don't fit? Don't fit with what?
The truth?

606
00:30:35,373 --> 00:30:37,274
<i>What's the matter, Arthur...</i>

607
00:30:37,276 --> 00:30:39,008
the truth doesn't sell
papers anymore?

608
00:30:39,010 --> 00:30:40,476
BROKAW: <i>And today, for the
first time...</i>

609
00:30:40,478 --> 00:30:42,278
<i>the administration provided...</i>

610
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,381
<i>details for what it has always
insisted was a connection...</i>

611
00:30:45,383 --> 00:30:48,150
<i>between Saddam Hussein
and Al Qaeda.</i>

612
00:30:48,152 --> 00:30:49,719
<i>How strong is that case?</i>

613
00:30:49,721 --> 00:30:52,022
REPORTER: <i>Iraqi president
Saddam Hussein says...</i>

614
00:30:52,024 --> 00:30:54,992
<i>he does not have any illegal
weapons of mass destruction...</i>

615
00:30:54,994 --> 00:30:58,195
<i>and accused the United States
of using weapons...</i>

616
00:30:58,197 --> 00:31:00,730
<i>as a pretext to start a war.</i>

617
00:31:00,732 --> 00:31:05,034
Mr. Galloway, how closely did
the movie conform to your book?

618
00:31:05,036 --> 00:31:08,438
The movie was about 80% accurate
and 20% bullshit...

619
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,411
which I guess by Hollywood
standards is an accomplishment.

620
00:31:14,013 --> 00:31:16,679
What inspired you to write
the book?

621
00:31:16,681 --> 00:31:19,082
Being shot at by the North
Vietnamese army.

622
00:31:19,084 --> 00:31:21,284
What was the biggest difference
between experiencing...

623
00:31:21,286 --> 00:31:25,589
the Battle of Ia Drang in person
versus watching it in a theater?

624
00:31:25,591 --> 00:31:27,493
The popcorn in Ia Drang was
saltier.

625
00:31:29,061 --> 00:31:30,427
Last question.

626
00:31:30,429 --> 00:31:32,528
Can you draw any comparisons
between Vietnam...

627
00:31:32,530 --> 00:31:35,131
and what's happening today
in Afghanistan?

628
00:31:35,133 --> 00:31:38,267
It's very different, but I think
it is appropriate...

629
00:31:38,269 --> 00:31:42,272
that before we start dropping
bombs, we think long and hard...

630
00:31:42,274 --> 00:31:45,042
about the greatest lesson
we got from Vietnam.

631
00:31:45,044 --> 00:31:46,676
Which is?

632
00:31:46,678 --> 00:31:51,247
When the government fucks up,
the soldiers pay the price.

633
00:31:51,249 --> 00:31:54,316
To what do I owe this
unexpected visit?

634
00:31:54,318 --> 00:31:56,652
Well, I was hoping I'd get
an autograph...

635
00:31:56,654 --> 00:31:59,255
from the world's most famous
war correspondent.

636
00:31:59,257 --> 00:32:03,259
I hate this part. Reporters are
not supposed to be the story.

637
00:32:03,261 --> 00:32:06,463
Reporters are not supposed to be
awarded the Bronze Star, either.

638
00:32:06,465 --> 00:32:08,832
How do you like the job
at State?

639
00:32:08,834 --> 00:32:10,467
I love working for General
Powell...

640
00:32:10,469 --> 00:32:12,134
and I hate working
for Uncle Sam.

641
00:32:12,136 --> 00:32:13,637
You miss reporting?

642
00:32:13,639 --> 00:32:15,471
After 42 years, I thought...

643
00:32:15,473 --> 00:32:17,274
I should take some time
away from it.

644
00:32:17,276 --> 00:32:20,744
So, I went to work at the State
Department on September 10th...

645
00:32:20,746 --> 00:32:23,112
and the next day the biggest
story of my life broke.

646
00:32:23,114 --> 00:32:25,782
I'd say there's a little bit
of a tug.

647
00:32:25,784 --> 00:32:29,518
We're working on something
important, that's why I'm here.

648
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,588
To make me envious?

649
00:32:31,590 --> 00:32:34,424
To make you an offer.

650
00:32:34,426 --> 00:32:37,726
HANNITY: <i>If he gets weapons
of mass destruction, Jerry.</i>

651
00:32:37,728 --> 00:32:39,795
<i>What does that mean
for the world?</i>

652
00:32:39,797 --> 00:32:41,531
<i>What does that mean
for the Middle East?</i>

653
00:32:41,533 --> 00:32:43,499
- Can you turn it down?
- I'm trying to watch the news.

654
00:32:43,501 --> 00:32:45,768
Stop calling it that.

655
00:32:45,770 --> 00:32:47,272
Hey, son.

656
00:32:52,311 --> 00:32:54,844
Adam, what's the matter?

657
00:32:54,846 --> 00:32:57,416
I met with a recruiter.

658
00:33:02,121 --> 00:33:04,390
HANNITY: <i>A lot of people
are gonna die, Jerry.</i>

659
00:33:08,392 --> 00:33:10,127
You know once you sign up...

660
00:33:10,129 --> 00:33:11,727
there's no changing your mind,
right?

661
00:33:11,729 --> 00:33:13,229
I know.

662
00:33:13,231 --> 00:33:14,864
What do you know?
You're just a kid.

663
00:33:14,866 --> 00:33:17,367
Whose country was attacked.

664
00:33:17,369 --> 00:33:19,636
Adam, I know you want to do what
you think is right...

665
00:33:19,638 --> 00:33:22,205
but war is not a video game.

666
00:33:22,207 --> 00:33:24,341
You have no idea what
you're getting into.

667
00:33:24,343 --> 00:33:26,711
I know exactly what
I'm getting into.

668
00:33:30,915 --> 00:33:33,149
Here.

669
00:33:33,151 --> 00:33:37,720
Show me where Afghanistan
is on this map.

670
00:33:37,722 --> 00:33:40,422
Show me.

671
00:33:40,424 --> 00:33:42,258
They're gonna send you halfway
around the world to fight...

672
00:33:42,260 --> 00:33:44,794
people you didn't even know
existed a year ago.

673
00:33:44,796 --> 00:33:47,496
If you know what you're
getting into...

674
00:33:47,498 --> 00:33:51,534
show me where Afghanistan
is on this map.

675
00:33:51,536 --> 00:33:54,603
Did anyone ever shove a map
in Dad's face...

676
00:33:54,605 --> 00:33:57,309
and ask him to find Vietnam?

677
00:34:03,614 --> 00:34:07,350
CHENEY: <i>We now know that
Saddam has resumed...</i>

678
00:34:07,352 --> 00:34:09,886
<i>his efforts to acquire
nuclear weapons.</i>

679
00:34:09,888 --> 00:34:12,688
<i>Among other sources, we've
gotten this from firsthand...</i>

680
00:34:12,690 --> 00:34:14,457
<i>testimony from defectors.</i>

681
00:34:14,459 --> 00:34:17,259
<i>Many of us are convinced
that Saddam Hussein...</i>

682
00:34:17,261 --> 00:34:19,962
<i>will acquire nuclear weapons
fairly soon.</i>

683
00:34:19,964 --> 00:34:23,799
<i>Simply stated, there is no
doubt that Saddam Hussein...</i>

684
00:34:23,801 --> 00:34:25,701
<i>now has weapons of mass
destruction.</i>

685
00:34:25,703 --> 00:34:28,605
They're dialing up
the rhetoric on Iraq.

686
00:34:28,607 --> 00:34:30,710
Let's see if we can nail
them down, okay?

687
00:34:32,777 --> 00:34:35,545
Twenty bucks, whoever gets
the best quote.

688
00:34:35,547 --> 00:34:38,480
No, no, no, you're such a child.

689
00:34:38,482 --> 00:34:39,616
You're such a pussy.

690
00:34:39,618 --> 00:34:41,217
I'm not taking your money.

691
00:34:41,219 --> 00:34:42,719
You get all bent out of shape
when you lose.

692
00:34:42,721 --> 00:34:44,487
I don't care. I'm just the same
when I win or lose.

693
00:34:44,489 --> 00:34:46,255
I'm not... it's not a bet,
all right, fine.

694
00:34:46,257 --> 00:34:47,857
Warren Strobel for Senator
Biden, please.

695
00:34:47,859 --> 00:34:49,692
Son of a bitch.

696
00:34:49,694 --> 00:34:52,362
Biden told Bush, "There's a
reason your father didn't go...

697
00:34:52,364 --> 00:34:53,529
"to Baghdad. He knew he would
have to stay...

698
00:34:53,531 --> 00:34:54,998
"for at least five years."

699
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,667
I got Michael O'Hanlon
at Brookings saying...

700
00:34:57,669 --> 00:35:00,306
"You definitely cannot
count on it being a cakewalk."

701
00:35:01,672 --> 00:35:03,672
We gotta hit it harder
than that.

702
00:35:03,674 --> 00:35:05,908
All right, well, hang on. I got
an official at the U.N...

703
00:35:05,910 --> 00:35:07,611
that says, "There's widespread
concern...

704
00:35:07,613 --> 00:35:09,779
"that this will destabilize
the whole Middle East."

705
00:35:09,781 --> 00:35:12,348
Let me see what you have.

706
00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:13,616
Well, wait, I got... I got...

707
00:35:13,618 --> 00:35:15,585
Just give it to me,
give, give, give.

708
00:35:15,587 --> 00:35:16,752
Okay.

709
00:35:16,754 --> 00:35:18,788
All right.

710
00:35:18,790 --> 00:35:22,460
Let's see here... all right.

711
00:36:08,873 --> 00:36:10,940
You guys are smart.

712
00:36:10,942 --> 00:36:13,509
You know what's unfolding here.

713
00:36:13,511 --> 00:36:17,515
Our readers need to know what
we've learned.

714
00:36:21,085 --> 00:36:24,721
"In the best case scenario, U.S.
troops could be stuck in Iraq...

715
00:36:24,723 --> 00:36:27,891
"for years trying to teach the
inner workings of democracy...

716
00:36:27,893 --> 00:36:31,761
"to a nation that has never
known it. In the worst case...

717
00:36:31,763 --> 00:36:35,732
"scenario, an invasion could
cause Iraq's fractious ethnic...

718
00:36:35,734 --> 00:36:38,567
"groups to break off into their
own mini-states...

719
00:36:38,569 --> 00:36:41,603
"trapping American combat forces
in the middle...

720
00:36:41,605 --> 00:36:44,276
"of a bloody civil war
for decades."

721
00:36:46,777 --> 00:36:48,745
Boss man's got balls.

722
00:36:48,747 --> 00:36:50,815
Yeah.

723
00:37:16,107 --> 00:37:25,047
Shit.

724
00:37:25,049 --> 00:37:26,382
Were those for me?

725
00:37:26,384 --> 00:37:29,886
No. Yes.

726
00:37:29,888 --> 00:37:34,556
But I thought it might be
a little, I don't know...

727
00:37:34,558 --> 00:37:36,658
a little too soon to be giving
each other gifts.

728
00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:38,594
It would've been all right.

729
00:37:38,596 --> 00:37:39,862
Okay.

730
00:37:39,864 --> 00:37:42,498
Well, I think they landed
on my car...

731
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,533
so if you want to grab them
on the way to dinner...

732
00:37:44,535 --> 00:37:46,603
maybe we can do that?

733
00:37:46,605 --> 00:37:48,474
- Great.
- Great.

734
00:37:51,609 --> 00:37:54,777
Okay, so what was the most
embarrassing thing...

735
00:37:54,779 --> 00:37:56,348
you did to prepare for tonight?

736
00:37:59,116 --> 00:38:01,083
All right.

737
00:38:01,085 --> 00:38:03,585
I will admit, that to prepare
for tonight...

738
00:38:03,587 --> 00:38:05,721
I did kind of a cram session
on Iraq...

739
00:38:05,723 --> 00:38:08,725
and the history of the Muslim
world.

740
00:38:08,727 --> 00:38:09,859
Really?

741
00:38:09,861 --> 00:38:11,627
Yes.

742
00:38:11,629 --> 00:38:14,129
Now I know that 1400 years ago,
after the death of Muhammad...

743
00:38:14,131 --> 00:38:16,498
Muslims fought over who was to
be his rightful heir...

744
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:18,167
and that caused a split
into two factions...

745
00:38:18,169 --> 00:38:19,569
the Sunnis and the Shiites.

746
00:38:19,571 --> 00:38:21,136
And they've been at war
ever since.

747
00:38:21,138 --> 00:38:23,172
Then, at the end of World War I,
the British and the French...

748
00:38:23,174 --> 00:38:26,141
arbitrarily divided the Arab
world into countries...

749
00:38:26,143 --> 00:38:28,143
putting the Sunni majority
in charge.

750
00:38:28,145 --> 00:38:32,882
But the country that became Iraq
is made up of only 20% Sunni.

751
00:38:32,884 --> 00:38:37,554
So, Saddam Hussein, a Sunni,
with an iron fist rules...

752
00:38:37,556 --> 00:38:38,987
the majority Shiite
population...

753
00:38:38,989 --> 00:38:42,558
and the 20% Kurdish population
in northern Iraq.

754
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,527
But if Saddam Hussein were
removed, it could possibly...

755
00:38:45,529 --> 00:38:48,096
reignite that 1400-year-old
sectarian war.

756
00:38:48,098 --> 00:38:50,199
Now, after reading <i>your</i>
stories...

757
00:38:50,201 --> 00:38:53,870
I know that Iran is the top
sponsor of terror, not Iraq.

758
00:38:53,872 --> 00:38:57,507
That a man named Ahmed Chalabi
seems to be a con artist...

759
00:38:57,509 --> 00:38:59,509
who wants to replace
Saddam Hussein.

760
00:38:59,511 --> 00:39:01,210
That the neo-cons in the Bush
Administration...

761
00:39:01,212 --> 00:39:02,846
are pushing for an invasion.

762
00:39:02,848 --> 00:39:06,482
And you are quickly becoming
my favorite writer.

763
00:39:06,484 --> 00:39:08,053
Wow.

764
00:39:12,122 --> 00:39:16,725
Um... I guess it's my turn.

765
00:39:16,727 --> 00:39:17,826
Give it to me.

766
00:39:17,828 --> 00:39:20,897
Okay, I will admit that...

767
00:39:20,899 --> 00:39:24,533
This is a little embarrassing.

768
00:39:24,535 --> 00:39:29,571
I asked my ex-wife to watch
my two sons tonight.

769
00:39:29,573 --> 00:39:31,140
Why is that embarrassing?

770
00:39:31,142 --> 00:39:33,076
Because a babysitter would
expect me home...

771
00:39:33,078 --> 00:39:37,013
at the end of the evening and...

772
00:39:37,015 --> 00:39:40,083
Should we get the check?

773
00:39:40,085 --> 00:39:43,553
Tell your boss we're gonna run
it whether he comments or not!

774
00:39:43,555 --> 00:39:46,656
Actually yes, it is a matter
of life and death!

775
00:39:46,658 --> 00:39:50,292
We're talking about going
to fucking war!

776
00:39:50,294 --> 00:39:52,730
Hello?

777
00:39:54,098 --> 00:39:56,866
I'm guessing that was
a no comment?

778
00:39:56,868 --> 00:39:59,067
What are you grinning
about?

779
00:39:59,069 --> 00:40:00,770
What? I'm not grinning.

780
00:40:00,772 --> 00:40:03,540
- You're grinning.
- I'm not grinning.

781
00:40:03,542 --> 00:40:04,908
- I'm not...
- What have you got over there?

782
00:40:04,910 --> 00:40:06,643
Relax! Don't worry about it.

783
00:40:06,645 --> 00:40:08,143
Oh my God, she could
do my taxes.

784
00:40:08,145 --> 00:40:10,045
- All right, relax.
- <i>(PHONE RINGING)</i>

785
00:40:10,047 --> 00:40:12,685
- Strobel, Knight Ridder.
- Of course.

786
00:40:15,687 --> 00:40:17,819
Okay.

787
00:40:17,821 --> 00:40:20,123
All right, I'll be right there.

788
00:40:20,125 --> 00:40:22,094
Let's go, this could be
something.

789
00:40:26,997 --> 00:40:29,065
So, how does this work?

790
00:40:29,067 --> 00:40:32,171
Do you ask me questions or do
I just start talking?

791
00:40:33,270 --> 00:40:35,804
Why don't you just begin...

792
00:40:35,806 --> 00:40:37,205
and we'll ask the questions
when we have them.

793
00:40:37,207 --> 00:40:39,741
If it's off the record,
I have to say so, right?

794
00:40:39,743 --> 00:40:42,178
Do you want it to be
off the record?

795
00:40:42,180 --> 00:40:45,848
I want people to know what
I know, but not who I am.

796
00:40:45,850 --> 00:40:47,616
It'll be background.

797
00:40:47,618 --> 00:40:50,055
You'll be referred to
as a U.S. official.

798
00:40:56,962 --> 00:40:59,732
So, whatever you feel
comfortable telling us.

799
00:41:03,134 --> 00:41:06,335
I believe your prediction about
what could and will happen...

800
00:41:06,337 --> 00:41:08,904
if we go to war is spot on.

801
00:41:08,906 --> 00:41:11,641
And we're a lot closer
than you think.

802
00:41:11,643 --> 00:41:13,208
How close?

803
00:41:13,210 --> 00:41:16,279
A secret war planning group
with a parallel intelligence...

804
00:41:16,281 --> 00:41:18,880
operation has been set up
to bypass...

805
00:41:18,882 --> 00:41:21,150
the rest of the
intelligence community.

806
00:41:21,152 --> 00:41:22,685
How do you know this?

807
00:41:22,687 --> 00:41:25,120
They meet in the building
where I work.

808
00:41:25,122 --> 00:41:27,123
And which building is that?

809
00:41:27,125 --> 00:41:31,861
The one with the five sides.

810
00:41:31,863 --> 00:41:32,962
But you're not a part
of that unit?

811
00:41:32,964 --> 00:41:34,196
No.

812
00:41:34,198 --> 00:41:35,832
So, how do you know about this?

813
00:41:35,834 --> 00:41:38,100
My desk is across the hall.

814
00:41:38,102 --> 00:41:40,402
What office do you work for?

815
00:41:40,404 --> 00:41:45,007
Near East South Asia division,
but you can't disclose that.

816
00:41:45,009 --> 00:41:47,009
You're an analyst?

817
00:41:47,011 --> 00:41:51,047
Yes... but you can't disclose
that, either.

818
00:41:51,049 --> 00:41:53,315
I'm speaking to you because
I'm an American citizen...

819
00:41:53,317 --> 00:41:55,917
and I don't like what these
people are doing.

820
00:41:55,919 --> 00:41:59,288
Half a dozen men, most of whom
have never served...

821
00:41:59,290 --> 00:42:01,424
in the military are making
decisions...

822
00:42:01,426 --> 00:42:04,893
based on shoddy intelligence,
and those decisions...

823
00:42:04,895 --> 00:42:07,362
will impact our men
and women in uniform.

824
00:42:07,364 --> 00:42:14,670
And as someone who has worn that
uniform, I can't remain silent.

825
00:42:14,672 --> 00:42:19,975
You said shoddy intelligence.
What do you mean by that?

826
00:42:19,977 --> 00:42:23,078
They've designed a process
that doesn't conform...

827
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,248
to any basic tenet
of intelligence gathering.

828
00:42:26,250 --> 00:42:27,750
In what way?

829
00:42:27,752 --> 00:42:29,951
A decision is made,
then the intelligence...

830
00:42:29,953 --> 00:42:33,388
is sought to support
that decision.

831
00:42:33,390 --> 00:42:34,991
How do you know this?

832
00:42:34,993 --> 00:42:37,993
They have no interest
in Arabic speakers.

833
00:42:37,995 --> 00:42:40,797
Israelis come in without
passes...

834
00:42:40,799 --> 00:42:43,966
without even being entered
into a security log.

835
00:42:43,968 --> 00:42:47,103
And for years the government has
been funding a group...

836
00:42:47,105 --> 00:42:51,473
of exiled dissidents called the
Iraqi National Congress.

837
00:42:51,475 --> 00:42:53,710
Led by Ahmad Chalabi, we know.

838
00:42:53,712 --> 00:42:56,745
Who they want to install
as the new leader of Iraq.

839
00:42:56,747 --> 00:42:58,815
Yeah, we've been trying to get
a meeting with him.

840
00:42:58,817 --> 00:43:01,085
Do you know who set up
this operation?

841
00:43:04,955 --> 00:43:07,890
Donald Rumsfeld.

842
00:43:07,892 --> 00:43:09,958
<i>Is there any evidence to
indicate that Iraq...</i>

843
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,429
<i>has attempted to or is willing
to supply terrorists...</i>

844
00:43:14,431 --> 00:43:16,732
<i>with weapons of mass
destruction?</i>

845
00:43:16,734 --> 00:43:21,203
<i>The reports that say that
something hasn't happened...</i>

846
00:43:21,205 --> 00:43:24,841
<i>are always interesting to me
because as we know...</i>

847
00:43:24,843 --> 00:43:29,078
<i>there are known knowns, there
are things we know we know.</i>

848
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,413
<i>We also know there are known
unknowns.</i>

849
00:43:31,415 --> 00:43:34,951
<i>That is to say, we know there
are some things we do not know.</i>

850
00:43:34,953 --> 00:43:37,487
<i>But there are also unknown
unknowns.</i>

851
00:43:37,489 --> 00:43:39,321
<i>The one's we don't know
we don't know.</i>

852
00:43:39,323 --> 00:43:41,891
We're working on a theory that
the administration...

853
00:43:41,893 --> 00:43:43,391
has already decided to go
to war...

854
00:43:43,393 --> 00:43:45,328
and is now focused on how
to justify it.

855
00:43:45,330 --> 00:43:47,196
It's not a theory.

856
00:43:47,198 --> 00:43:49,766
We've also been told by a number
of individuals that...

857
00:43:49,768 --> 00:43:52,835
Rumsfeld's the one spearheading
this intelligence gathering.

858
00:43:52,837 --> 00:43:55,237
I wouldn't exactly
call it intelligence gathering.

859
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,272
It's more like
intelligence cherry picking.

860
00:43:57,274 --> 00:43:58,940
And if they don't find
any cherries...

861
00:43:58,942 --> 00:44:00,509
they just grab a piece
of shit...

862
00:44:00,511 --> 00:44:03,879
and they paint it red, and they
stick it in a Shirley Temple.

863
00:44:03,881 --> 00:44:07,250
You seem irritated.

864
00:44:07,252 --> 00:44:09,919
I'm out there looking for
weapons that might not exist...

865
00:44:09,921 --> 00:44:12,487
to justify a war that might
not be wise.

866
00:44:12,489 --> 00:44:17,025
And have you found any evidence
of WMD?

867
00:44:17,027 --> 00:44:18,895
No, sir.

868
00:44:18,897 --> 00:44:21,029
But Saddam is looking to acquire
nukes, right?

869
00:44:21,031 --> 00:44:23,966
Yeah, and I'm trying to fuck
Jennifer Lopez, but I have...

870
00:44:23,968 --> 00:44:26,234
a sinking feeling that neither
of those things is gonna happen.

871
00:44:26,236 --> 00:44:31,040
So, we won't use your identity,
but can we get a quote?

872
00:44:31,042 --> 00:44:32,808
Sure.

873
00:44:32,810 --> 00:44:34,976
Have you found anything to
support the administration's...

874
00:44:34,978 --> 00:44:38,446
theory that Saddam is close to
or has acquired nuclear weapons?

875
00:44:38,448 --> 00:44:40,016
We've searched every cave...

876
00:44:40,018 --> 00:44:42,451
and looked up every camel's ass
in Iraq.

877
00:44:42,453 --> 00:44:47,292
So, here's your quote,
"no fucking way."

878
00:44:49,194 --> 00:44:51,027
Might have to clean
that up a bit.

879
00:44:51,029 --> 00:44:54,129
Quite colorful, though.

880
00:44:54,131 --> 00:44:55,263
LANDAY:
Uh, honey, I think someone...

881
00:44:55,265 --> 00:44:56,966
is stealing our New York Times.

882
00:44:56,968 --> 00:44:58,301
VLATKA: I canceled it.

883
00:44:58,303 --> 00:45:00,169
Why would you do that?

884
00:45:00,171 --> 00:45:01,437
It's propaganda.

885
00:45:01,439 --> 00:45:03,239
I need that for my work.

886
00:45:03,241 --> 00:45:05,607
It's packaging press releases
from the White House...

887
00:45:05,609 --> 00:45:07,609
the State Department, and the
Pentagon.

888
00:45:07,611 --> 00:45:09,514
Sorry, that's not a real
newspaper.

889
00:45:16,421 --> 00:45:18,987
How was your day?

890
00:45:18,989 --> 00:45:21,257
Warren and I met with some
gentleman...

891
00:45:21,259 --> 00:45:23,592
from the intelligence community
who confirmed that...

892
00:45:23,594 --> 00:45:25,627
there's no real evidence
to support...

893
00:45:25,629 --> 00:45:28,966
the administration's
claim on WMD.

894
00:45:31,435 --> 00:45:34,203
What have I been telling you?

895
00:45:34,205 --> 00:45:38,477
Well, unfortunately, I can't use
your gut as a reliable source.

896
00:45:43,448 --> 00:45:46,449
You know, this is what they do.
They lie.

897
00:45:46,451 --> 00:45:49,421
Yeah, and we try to hold
them accountable.

898
00:45:52,656 --> 00:45:55,324
I hope I'm wrong. I really,
really do.

899
00:45:55,326 --> 00:45:58,460
But the Bush Administration,
they don't care about the truth.

900
00:45:58,462 --> 00:46:01,196
They don't even respond to your
articles.

901
00:46:01,198 --> 00:46:04,299
If they want a war, they're
gonna get one.

902
00:46:04,301 --> 00:46:07,002
And there's nothing that you
or the first amendment...

903
00:46:07,004 --> 00:46:08,439
is gonna do to stop them.

904
00:46:22,319 --> 00:46:24,222
Extra, extra, read all about it.

905
00:46:30,428 --> 00:46:34,297
"Over the past 14 months, Iraq
has tried to buy thousands...

906
00:46:34,299 --> 00:46:37,500
"of specially design aluminum
tubes, which American...

907
00:46:37,502 --> 00:46:39,534
"officials believe were intended
as components...

908
00:46:39,536 --> 00:46:43,471
"of centrifuges to enrich
uranium."

909
00:46:43,473 --> 00:46:45,241
Well, one thing's for sure.

910
00:46:45,243 --> 00:46:46,676
What's that?

911
00:46:46,678 --> 00:46:49,181
We can't both be right.

912
00:46:52,683 --> 00:46:54,016
Who're you calling?

913
00:46:54,018 --> 00:46:55,951
Loose Nukes.

914
00:46:55,953 --> 00:46:57,520
If she wouldn't talk to you
about going into Iraq...

915
00:46:57,522 --> 00:47:00,121
what makes you think she's gonna
go on the record on WMD?

916
00:47:00,123 --> 00:47:03,127
Charm Offensive. Watch and
learn, son.

917
00:47:07,198 --> 00:47:08,667
Landay.

918
00:47:11,368 --> 00:47:14,469
- It's Joe Galloway.
- Wow.

919
00:47:14,471 --> 00:47:16,605
Man even walks like he has
a Bronze Star.

920
00:47:16,607 --> 00:47:17,973
LOOSE NUKES (OVER PHONE):
<i>Hello.</i>

921
00:47:17,975 --> 00:47:20,275
Oh, hi, yeah, it's Landay.

922
00:47:20,277 --> 00:47:21,576
<i>Hello, Jonathan.</i>

923
00:47:21,578 --> 00:47:27,382
Hi. Crazy weather we're having,
huh?

924
00:47:27,384 --> 00:47:29,417
<i>You're calling me to chat
about the weather?</i>

925
00:47:29,419 --> 00:47:34,056
No, no, yeah. Actually, I wanted
to ask you about WMD.

926
00:47:34,058 --> 00:47:35,623
It'll be deep, deep background.

927
00:47:35,625 --> 00:47:37,292
<i>Goodbye, Jonathan.</i>

928
00:47:37,294 --> 00:47:40,228
No wait, don't hang up.

929
00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:44,199
That Charm Offensive...
that's formidable.

930
00:47:44,201 --> 00:47:48,471
Listen, we need you here.

931
00:47:48,473 --> 00:47:51,172
You've developed sources over
the years that have access...

932
00:47:51,174 --> 00:47:54,210
that Landay and Strobel
just can't get.

933
00:47:54,212 --> 00:47:55,611
I'll make it easy on you.

934
00:47:55,613 --> 00:47:57,413
I'll give you a column...

935
00:47:57,415 --> 00:48:01,449
and your name doesn't have to
appear on anything else.

936
00:48:01,451 --> 00:48:04,286
Whatever else you want to write
on the side, you can...

937
00:48:04,288 --> 00:48:06,554
and of course, there won't be
any glory, but...

938
00:48:06,556 --> 00:48:08,727
Glory's for young men.

939
00:48:11,361 --> 00:48:13,462
Let me percolate on it.

940
00:48:13,464 --> 00:48:15,531
<i>Let me turn to the issue
of Iraq.</i>

941
00:48:15,533 --> 00:48:18,567
<i>You have said that it poses...</i>

942
00:48:18,569 --> 00:48:20,803
<i>a mortal threat to the
United States.</i>

943
00:48:20,805 --> 00:48:24,406
<i>How? Define "mortal threat."</i>

944
00:48:24,408 --> 00:48:29,210
<i>Well, this'll take some time,
but it's important for us...</i>

945
00:48:29,212 --> 00:48:31,112
<i>as I mentioned earlier...</i>

946
00:48:31,114 --> 00:48:34,049
<i>to remember that the world
has changed, that prior to...</i>

947
00:48:34,051 --> 00:48:35,784
I'd forgotten the world
had changed.

948
00:48:35,786 --> 00:48:37,719
So did I. I'm so happy he
mentioned that.

949
00:48:37,721 --> 00:48:41,357
<i>What, specifically, has he
obtained that you believe...</i>

950
00:48:41,359 --> 00:48:43,792
<i>would enhance his nuclear
development program?</i>

951
00:48:43,794 --> 00:48:45,828
<i>Well, in the nuclear weapons
arena...</i>

952
00:48:45,830 --> 00:48:48,630
<i>you've got specifically
aluminum tubes.</i>

953
00:48:48,632 --> 00:48:50,399
<i>There's a story in The New York
Times this morning...</i>

954
00:48:50,401 --> 00:48:53,502
<i>this is and I want to attribute
to The Times.</i>

955
00:48:53,504 --> 00:48:55,437
<i>I don't want to talk about,
obviously...</i>

956
00:48:55,439 --> 00:48:58,607
<i>specific intelligence sources,
but it's now public that...</i>

957
00:48:58,609 --> 00:49:03,645
<i>in fact he has been seeking to
acquire, and we have been...</i>

958
00:49:03,647 --> 00:49:06,449
<i>able to intercept and prevent
him from acquiring...</i>

959
00:49:06,451 --> 00:49:08,150
<i>through this particular
channel...</i>

960
00:49:08,152 --> 00:49:10,286
<i>the kinds of tubes that are
necessary...</i>

961
00:49:10,288 --> 00:49:12,087
<i>to build a centrifuge.</i>

962
00:49:12,089 --> 00:49:15,123
<i>And the centrifuge is required
to take low-grade uranium...</i>

963
00:49:15,125 --> 00:49:18,560
<i>and enhance it into highly
enriched uranium...</i>

964
00:49:18,562 --> 00:49:21,330
<i>which is what you have to have
in order to build a bomb.</i>

965
00:49:21,332 --> 00:49:23,866
Lucky for him, someone leaked
that to The Times.

966
00:49:23,868 --> 00:49:27,169
Avoids the pesky nuisance
of being arrested...

967
00:49:27,171 --> 00:49:28,804
for revealing classified
information.

968
00:49:28,806 --> 00:49:30,839
One can only wonder how Judy
Miller and Michael Gordon...

969
00:49:30,841 --> 00:49:31,873
got that information.

970
00:49:31,875 --> 00:49:35,578
<i>Does it bother you, bug you...</i>

971
00:49:35,580 --> 00:49:38,714
<i>that you have not captured
Osama bin Laden in over a year?</i>

972
00:49:38,716 --> 00:49:45,453
<i>I'd like to see him on
television in handcuffs...</i>

973
00:49:45,455 --> 00:49:47,489
<i>if I can put it
into those terms.</i>

974
00:49:47,491 --> 00:49:49,458
<i>I think all of us would.</i>

975
00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:53,228
<i>But I don't lay awake at night
concerned about that.</i>

976
00:49:53,230 --> 00:49:55,563
<i>There's one school of thought
that says he's already dead.</i>

977
00:49:55,565 --> 00:49:57,165
<i>We haven't heard anything
of him in many months.</i>

978
00:49:57,167 --> 00:49:58,533
RUSSERT: <i>What do you think?</i>

979
00:49:58,535 --> 00:49:59,634
<i>I don't know, I really
don't know.</i>

980
00:49:59,636 --> 00:50:01,569
<i>I can argue it round or flat.</i>

981
00:50:01,571 --> 00:50:04,172
I didn't know we were still
debating the shape of the earth.

982
00:50:04,174 --> 00:50:06,143
I've got sources on both sides.

983
00:50:08,212 --> 00:50:10,645
<i>But the U.S. military would be
enormously effective...</i>

984
00:50:10,647 --> 00:50:12,515
<i>in this circumstance.</i>

985
00:50:12,517 --> 00:50:15,451
<i>And I don't think it would be
that tough a fight.</i>

986
00:50:15,453 --> 00:50:17,386
<i>That is, I don't think there's
any question...</i>

987
00:50:17,388 --> 00:50:19,221
<i>that we would prevail and we
would achieve our objective.</i>

988
00:50:19,223 --> 00:50:21,656
Landay.

989
00:50:21,658 --> 00:50:24,292
Yeah?

990
00:50:24,294 --> 00:50:26,630
We are right, aren't we?

991
00:50:28,866 --> 00:50:30,835
Everybody, listen up.

992
00:50:34,839 --> 00:50:36,808
We're not NBC.

993
00:50:38,276 --> 00:50:40,341
We're not ABC. We're not CBS.

994
00:50:40,343 --> 00:50:43,347
We're not FOX. We're not CNN.

995
00:50:44,482 --> 00:50:46,582
We're not The New York Times.

996
00:50:46,584 --> 00:50:48,553
We're not The Washington Post.

997
00:50:50,453 --> 00:50:52,423
We are Knight Ridder.

998
00:50:56,527 --> 00:51:02,598
We have readers who live in
towns with military bases.

999
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:06,335
Fort Benning, Fort Bragg,
Fort Jackson...

1000
00:51:06,337 --> 00:51:12,674
and over 40 other military bases
throughout this country.

1001
00:51:12,676 --> 00:51:17,446
If every other news organization
wants to be stenographers...

1002
00:51:17,448 --> 00:51:20,518
for the Bush administration,
let them.

1003
00:51:22,786 --> 00:51:26,658
We don't write for people who
send other people's kids to war.

1004
00:51:28,725 --> 00:51:33,198
We write for people
whose kids get sent to war.

1005
00:51:35,866 --> 00:51:38,333
So, when the government
says something...

1006
00:51:38,335 --> 00:51:40,839
you only have one question
to ask.

1007
00:51:44,341 --> 00:51:46,277
Is it true?

1008
00:51:52,450 --> 00:51:54,386
I'm through percolating.

1009
00:51:57,488 --> 00:51:59,420
Let's get to work.

1010
00:51:59,422 --> 00:52:01,690
Administration officials spanned
out on the Sunday talk shows...

1011
00:52:01,692 --> 00:52:03,926
to make the case for an invasion
of Iraq.

1012
00:52:03,928 --> 00:52:06,895
Who else is involved in
The Office of Special Planning?

1013
00:52:06,897 --> 00:52:10,598
Wolfowitz, Feith, couple others.

1014
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,967
Instead of listening to people
who have spent their careers...

1015
00:52:12,969 --> 00:52:16,804
evaluating threats, they're
streaming questionable intel...

1016
00:52:16,806 --> 00:52:18,707
from unreliable sources and
taking it...

1017
00:52:18,709 --> 00:52:20,509
directly to the White House.

1018
00:52:20,511 --> 00:52:22,745
<i>George Tenet, Director
of Central Intelligence...</i>

1019
00:52:22,747 --> 00:52:25,346
<i>told Senators, he could not
rule out cooperation...</i>

1020
00:52:25,348 --> 00:52:26,617
<i>between Osama bin Laden
and Al Qaeda.</i>

1021
00:52:29,386 --> 00:52:31,587
I've seen the specs on those
aluminum tubes.

1022
00:52:31,589 --> 00:52:33,621
They're too small to be used
for enriching uranium.

1023
00:52:33,623 --> 00:52:35,024
What does that mean?

1024
00:52:35,026 --> 00:52:36,792
They can't be used
for a nuclear bomb.

1025
00:52:36,794 --> 00:52:38,594
REPORTER: <i>The President
of the United States...</i>

1026
00:52:38,596 --> 00:52:39,928
<i>said we're not going to permit
nations to develop...</i>

1027
00:52:39,930 --> 00:52:41,897
<i>weapons of mass destruction...</i>

1028
00:52:41,899 --> 00:52:43,699
<i>as they're gonna supply those
weapons to a network...</i>

1029
00:52:43,701 --> 00:52:45,366
<i>of terrorism that could attack
the United States.</i>

1030
00:52:45,368 --> 00:52:47,870
Cheney is trying to shut
out Powell.

1031
00:52:47,872 --> 00:52:49,471
Where'd you get this stuff?

1032
00:52:49,473 --> 00:52:51,339
Old friend.

1033
00:52:51,341 --> 00:52:53,375
REPORTER: <i>We're starting to
see a consensus from within...</i>

1034
00:52:53,377 --> 00:52:55,377
<i>the administration for the
removal of Saddam Hussein.</i>

1035
00:52:55,379 --> 00:52:57,379
COMMENTATOR: <i>The
administration has pointed...</i>

1036
00:52:57,381 --> 00:52:59,681
<i>to a secret meeting in Prague
between Iraqi intelligence...</i>

1037
00:52:59,683 --> 00:53:01,449
<i>and 9/11 hijacker,
Mohamed Atta.</i>

1038
00:53:01,451 --> 00:53:03,419
<i>Bush administration is pressing
the United Nations...</i>

1039
00:53:03,421 --> 00:53:05,554
<i>Security Council for
a resolution...</i>

1040
00:53:05,556 --> 00:53:07,455
<i>to put pressure on Iraq.</i>

1041
00:53:07,457 --> 00:53:09,424
<i>President Bush will address
the United Nations today...</i>

1042
00:53:09,426 --> 00:53:11,759
<i>in hopes of putting together
a multi-national coalition...</i>

1043
00:53:11,761 --> 00:53:13,594
<i>to disarm Saddam Hussein.</i>

1044
00:53:13,596 --> 00:53:15,698
<i>The White House is lobbying
Congress to authorize...</i>

1045
00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:17,799
<i>the use of force in Iraq.</i>

1046
00:53:17,801 --> 00:53:19,868
The minute these guys get
their hands on anything...

1047
00:53:19,870 --> 00:53:21,536
remotely resembling evidence...

1048
00:53:21,538 --> 00:53:23,471
they leak it to
The New York Times.

1049
00:53:23,473 --> 00:53:24,873
Now, I understand the position
you're in...

1050
00:53:24,875 --> 00:53:27,509
but please don't hang up on me.

1051
00:53:27,511 --> 00:53:28,976
LOOSE NUKES: <i>Okay.</i>

1052
00:53:28,978 --> 00:53:32,547
Okay, the vice president
of the United States...

1053
00:53:32,549 --> 00:53:35,984
went to the V.F.W. and said that
Saddam Hussein...

1054
00:53:35,986 --> 00:53:38,953
is on the threshold of
developing a nuclear weapon.

1055
00:53:38,955 --> 00:53:41,556
Then he goes on national
television...

1056
00:53:41,558 --> 00:53:42,790
and says the same thing.

1057
00:53:42,792 --> 00:53:46,060
<i>Your question?</i>

1058
00:53:46,062 --> 00:53:49,498
Ask the question.

1059
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:52,533
What I want to know is,
is Dick Cheney ignoring...

1060
00:53:52,535 --> 00:53:55,103
good intelligence that
contradicts his assumptions...

1061
00:53:55,105 --> 00:53:59,074
or is he just getting bad
intelligence?

1062
00:53:59,076 --> 00:54:02,681
<i>The vice president is lying.</i>

1063
00:54:04,881 --> 00:54:06,781
Thank you, thank you so much.

1064
00:54:06,783 --> 00:54:09,051
What? What, what, what?
What'd she say?

1065
00:54:09,053 --> 00:54:10,786
He's lying.

1066
00:54:10,788 --> 00:54:12,788
- He's lying.
- Cheney is lying.

1067
00:54:12,790 --> 00:54:14,989
- Cheney's lying!
- Cheney's lying!

1068
00:54:14,991 --> 00:54:17,525
- He's lying! John!
- He's lying!

1069
00:54:17,527 --> 00:54:19,627
John!

1070
00:54:19,629 --> 00:54:20,862
Where the hell is he?

1071
00:54:20,864 --> 00:54:22,531
Here we go. Here we go.

1072
00:54:22,533 --> 00:54:24,466
- He's lying.
- He's lying.

1073
00:54:24,468 --> 00:54:26,435
Cheney's lying.

1074
00:54:26,437 --> 00:54:27,870
Where did this come from?

1075
00:54:27,872 --> 00:54:29,538
Loose Nukes.

1076
00:54:29,540 --> 00:54:31,440
Okay.

1077
00:54:31,442 --> 00:54:33,808
Now, we know what's being talk
about, we got to get inside...

1078
00:54:33,810 --> 00:54:36,812
those meetings and find out if
there's a dissenting opinion.

1079
00:54:36,814 --> 00:54:38,614
I may have a guy.

1080
00:54:38,616 --> 00:54:40,047
Anybody we know?

1081
00:54:40,049 --> 00:54:41,652
The Usual Suspect.

1082
00:54:52,897 --> 00:54:54,862
You didn't want to do
this in a parking garage?

1083
00:54:54,864 --> 00:54:57,498
If there was one that served
Pad Thai, I would.

1084
00:54:57,500 --> 00:54:59,902
How's civilian life?

1085
00:54:59,904 --> 00:55:02,504
My retirement lasted about
four hours.

1086
00:55:02,506 --> 00:55:04,205
You're with Knight Ridder?

1087
00:55:04,207 --> 00:55:06,574
I don't even have a desk yet.
How the hell do you know that?

1088
00:55:06,576 --> 00:55:08,076
I have my ways.

1089
00:55:08,078 --> 00:55:09,944
You been following what we're
doing over there?

1090
00:55:09,946 --> 00:55:11,179
Yes, I have.

1091
00:55:11,181 --> 00:55:12,681
And?

1092
00:55:12,683 --> 00:55:14,449
You two may be singlehandedly
saving...

1093
00:55:14,451 --> 00:55:17,553
the Fourth Estate from
extinction.

1094
00:55:17,555 --> 00:55:20,221
Mainstream media hasn't picked
up a thing we been running.

1095
00:55:20,223 --> 00:55:21,857
Should be all the confirmation
you need...

1096
00:55:21,859 --> 00:55:23,094
that you're onto something.

1097
00:55:26,062 --> 00:55:28,696
What can I do for you?

1098
00:55:28,698 --> 00:55:30,732
We need some help with the
higher ups.

1099
00:55:30,734 --> 00:55:31,732
How high?

1100
00:55:31,734 --> 00:55:33,469
High as you can get us.

1101
00:55:33,471 --> 00:55:35,170
You've been around a long time,
Joe.

1102
00:55:35,172 --> 00:55:37,672
I doubt there's anything there
that'll surprise you.

1103
00:55:37,674 --> 00:55:39,475
I was married one time
to a woman who thought...

1104
00:55:39,477 --> 00:55:41,643
New Hampshire was the capital
of Massachusetts.

1105
00:55:41,645 --> 00:55:44,612
There's always something you
don't see coming.

1106
00:55:44,614 --> 00:55:47,949
What do you want to know?

1107
00:55:47,951 --> 00:55:51,053
Everything the administration
doesn't want us to know.

1108
00:55:51,055 --> 00:55:54,459
You and I are going to be eating
a lot of Pad Thai.

1109
00:55:59,497 --> 00:56:01,496
What kind of time frame
are we looking at?

1110
00:56:01,498 --> 00:56:02,897
Next month, Congress
is scheduled to vote...

1111
00:56:02,899 --> 00:56:04,165
on whether or not to give
the president...

1112
00:56:04,167 --> 00:56:05,868
the authorization to go to war.

1113
00:56:05,870 --> 00:56:06,935
Are the votes there?

1114
00:56:06,937 --> 00:56:08,603
The administration thinks so.

1115
00:56:08,605 --> 00:56:14,009
Mr. President, 38 years ago,
I, Robert C. Byrd...

1116
00:56:14,011 --> 00:56:17,612
voted on the Tonkin Gulf
Resolution.

1117
00:56:17,614 --> 00:56:21,149
The resolution that authorized
the president to use military...

1118
00:56:21,151 --> 00:56:23,150
force to repel armed attacks...

1119
00:56:23,152 --> 00:56:27,589
and to prevent further communist
aggression in Southeast Asia.

1120
00:56:27,591 --> 00:56:31,225
A joint resolution to authorize
the use of United States...

1121
00:56:31,227 --> 00:56:34,730
armed forces against Iraq should
be brought to a close.

1122
00:56:34,732 --> 00:56:36,931
The clerk will call the roll.

1123
00:56:36,933 --> 00:56:39,134
CLERK: <i>Mr. Biden, aye.</i>

1124
00:56:39,136 --> 00:56:41,169
<i>Mrs. Clinton, aye.</i>

1125
00:56:41,171 --> 00:56:43,638
It was this resolution that
provided the basis...

1126
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,542
for American involvement
in the war in Vietnam.

1127
00:56:47,544 --> 00:56:49,877
<i>Mr. Kerry, aye.</i>

1128
00:56:49,879 --> 00:56:52,047
<i>Mr. Lieberman, aye.</i>

1129
00:56:52,049 --> 00:56:54,016
<i>Mr. Lott, aye.</i>

1130
00:56:54,018 --> 00:56:55,951
It was this resolution...

1131
00:56:55,953 --> 00:57:00,989
that lead to the deaths
of 58,000 Americans.

1132
00:57:00,991 --> 00:57:03,324
<i>Mr. McCain, aye.</i>

1133
00:57:03,326 --> 00:57:05,560
<i>Mr. McConnell, aye.</i>

1134
00:57:05,562 --> 00:57:10,699
After all that carnage, we began
to learn that in voting...

1135
00:57:10,701 --> 00:57:12,768
for the Tonkin Gulf
resolution...

1136
00:57:12,770 --> 00:57:15,904
we were basing our votes
on bad information.

1137
00:57:15,906 --> 00:57:18,172
And history is repeating itself.

1138
00:57:18,174 --> 00:57:20,308
<i>Mr. Santorum, aye.</i>

1139
00:57:20,310 --> 00:57:23,679
I urge senators to go down
on the Capital Mall...

1140
00:57:23,681 --> 00:57:26,181
and look at the Vietnam
Memorial.

1141
00:57:26,183 --> 00:57:29,250
Nearly every day, you will find
someone at that wall...

1142
00:57:29,252 --> 00:57:31,587
weeping for a loved one.

1143
00:57:31,589 --> 00:57:33,654
<i>Mr. Sessions, aye.</i>

1144
00:57:33,656 --> 00:57:36,158
I will always remember the words
of Senator Wayne Morse.

1145
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,627
<i>Mr. Specter, aye.</i>

1146
00:57:38,629 --> 00:57:40,895
He stated, "The resolution will
pass and senators...

1147
00:57:40,897 --> 00:57:44,632
"who vote for it will live
to regret it."

1148
00:57:44,634 --> 00:57:46,667
We got K-10, we got Dixie,
we don't need another source.

1149
00:57:46,669 --> 00:57:48,270
You know we got this.

1150
00:57:48,272 --> 00:57:50,237
Look, when you're accusing the
secretary of defense...

1151
00:57:50,239 --> 00:57:52,107
of running a shadow
intelligence unit...

1152
00:57:52,109 --> 00:57:54,676
out of the Pentagon, it's nice
to have a little insurance.

1153
00:57:54,678 --> 00:57:55,913
That's all I'm saying.

1154
00:57:59,984 --> 00:58:02,350
All right, let's share it
with the rest of the class.

1155
00:58:02,352 --> 00:58:04,085
You want to tell them?

1156
00:58:04,087 --> 00:58:07,723
Earlier today, I was summoned
to the Pentagon.

1157
00:58:07,725 --> 00:58:09,056
By whom?

1158
00:58:09,058 --> 00:58:12,127
Rumsfeld, Ol' Limp Dick
sent a message saying...

1159
00:58:12,129 --> 00:58:13,929
"All your sources are retired
generals."

1160
00:58:13,931 --> 00:58:15,864
And I said, "All due respect,
sir...

1161
00:58:15,866 --> 00:58:18,799
"80% of my sources are
active military."

1162
00:58:18,801 --> 00:58:20,636
"Some of them are working
in this building...

1163
00:58:20,638 --> 00:58:22,837
"and some of them are actually
working on your staff."

1164
00:58:22,839 --> 00:58:25,806
"And hell, one or two of them
might even be in this room."

1165
00:58:25,808 --> 00:58:27,942
Did you actually have sources
in the room?

1166
00:58:27,944 --> 00:58:31,082
No, but it was fun watching him
sweat like whores in church.

1167
00:58:33,817 --> 00:58:35,783
How close are we to getting
something we can run with

1168
00:58:35,785 --> 00:58:37,185
on the Office of Special Plans?

1169
00:58:37,187 --> 00:58:39,020
Well, we already got...

1170
00:58:39,022 --> 00:58:41,656
No, we're just gonna check
with a couple more sources.

1171
00:58:41,658 --> 00:58:43,658
What's wrong with the sources
you have?

1172
00:58:43,660 --> 00:58:46,094
Well, we just want to be
certain.

1173
00:58:46,096 --> 00:58:49,096
You know, you sit on a story
like this, the dam bursts.

1174
00:58:49,098 --> 00:58:51,001
Let's just move on this,
okay, boys?

1175
00:58:54,904 --> 00:58:56,237
When are you gonna be finished?

1176
00:58:56,239 --> 00:59:00,243
Just a few more minutes, baby.

1177
00:59:02,846 --> 00:59:06,781
I can't sleep with the computer
light on.

1178
00:59:06,783 --> 00:59:09,219
Actually, I'm done.

1179
00:59:13,690 --> 00:59:17,025
So, what are you working on?

1180
00:59:17,027 --> 00:59:19,828
Rumsfeld has a secret Intel
group that's going...

1181
00:59:19,830 --> 00:59:24,835
around the CIA to manufacture
a case for war.

1182
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:31,440
What the fuck, Jonathan?

1183
00:59:31,442 --> 00:59:33,107
What?

1184
00:59:33,109 --> 00:59:35,078
Have you been talking about this
on the phone?

1185
00:59:37,281 --> 00:59:38,779
Yeah, of course.

1186
00:59:38,781 --> 00:59:40,651
So, what?

1187
00:59:43,187 --> 00:59:47,188
- They will hear you.
- Vlatka.

1188
00:59:47,190 --> 00:59:49,824
You're writing about infighting
between spy agencies.

1189
00:59:49,826 --> 00:59:50,926
So?

1190
00:59:50,928 --> 00:59:53,328
They're spy agencies, Jonathan.

1191
00:59:53,330 --> 00:59:55,964
They listen to your calls,
they read your emails.

1192
00:59:55,966 --> 00:59:57,966
They probably bugged this house.

1193
00:59:57,968 --> 00:59:59,967
You're being paranoid.

1194
00:59:59,969 --> 01:00:01,335
You're being naive.

1195
01:00:01,337 --> 01:00:04,739
This isn't Yugoslavia,
this is America.

1196
01:00:04,741 --> 01:00:07,007
America has changed.

1197
01:00:07,009 --> 01:00:08,375
War is big business for them.

1198
01:00:08,377 --> 01:00:11,045
You get in their way,
they're gonna kill you.

1199
01:00:11,047 --> 01:00:15,817
Honey, you are being ridiculous.
All right? Come on.

1200
01:00:15,819 --> 01:00:19,054
Don't you get it?

1201
01:00:19,056 --> 01:00:21,890
You know what these people
are capable of?

1202
01:00:21,892 --> 01:00:24,493
You have a family!

1203
01:00:24,495 --> 01:00:28,098
Vlatka. Vlatka!

1204
01:00:32,902 --> 01:00:37,239
Oh, somebody's struggling.
What's the matter?

1205
01:00:37,241 --> 01:00:40,542
Oh, Vlatka kept me up all night.

1206
01:00:40,544 --> 01:00:42,176
All right!

1207
01:00:42,178 --> 01:00:46,047
No, not that like that. It was
conspiracy theories.

1208
01:00:46,049 --> 01:00:47,415
About what?

1209
01:00:47,417 --> 01:00:50,951
Oh... she thinks the government
is monitoring us.

1210
01:00:50,953 --> 01:00:54,124
I mean, it's ridiculous.

1211
01:00:56,225 --> 01:00:57,761
Check your email.

1212
01:01:09,906 --> 01:01:11,839
John, you got to see this.

1213
01:01:11,841 --> 01:01:14,042
Oh, hold on a second.

1214
01:01:14,044 --> 01:01:17,248
Arthur, I really don't want to
have this conversation again.

1215
01:01:19,382 --> 01:01:22,819
He hung up. What is it?

1216
01:01:30,060 --> 01:01:31,362
What do we do?

1217
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,047
- You're such a wuss.
- You're a wuss.

1218
01:01:52,049 --> 01:01:54,015
You're a much bigger wuss.

1219
01:01:54,017 --> 01:01:55,516
Shut up, will you stop it,
you're being a child.

1220
01:01:55,518 --> 01:01:57,484
- You're being a...
- Shut up!

1221
01:01:57,486 --> 01:02:00,554
REPORTER: <i>Today's UN Security
Council resolution...</i>

1222
01:02:00,556 --> 01:02:04,558
<i>can be boiled down to four
words, the clock is ticking.</i>

1223
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:08,596
<i>Iraq's only alternative to full
compliance, President Bush...</i>

1224
01:02:08,598 --> 01:02:11,632
<i>made clear today, is
of military confrontation.</i>

1225
01:02:11,634 --> 01:02:14,902
BUSH: <i>The full disarmament of
weapons of mass destruction...</i>

1226
01:02:14,904 --> 01:02:16,471
<i>by Iraq will occur.</i>

1227
01:02:16,473 --> 01:02:22,246
<i>The only question for the Iraqi
regime is to decide how.</i>

1228
01:02:34,091 --> 01:02:35,422
Son of a bitch.

1229
01:02:35,424 --> 01:02:37,125
They beat us.

1230
01:02:37,127 --> 01:02:39,326
But they missed the whole point
of why the unit was set up.

1231
01:02:39,328 --> 01:02:40,629
It doesn't matter, they got
the scoop.

1232
01:02:40,631 --> 01:02:42,330
With what?

1233
01:02:42,332 --> 01:02:44,199
There's nothing about
cherry picking intelligence.

1234
01:02:44,201 --> 01:02:46,433
There's nothing about bypassing
other agencies.

1235
01:02:46,435 --> 01:02:48,036
We can still run ours.

1236
01:02:48,038 --> 01:02:49,337
John, no one's gonna pay
attention...

1237
01:02:49,339 --> 01:02:52,140
to a second story explaining
all that.

1238
01:02:52,142 --> 01:02:53,908
We had it.

1239
01:02:53,910 --> 01:02:55,911
Goddamn it, Walcott's gonna be
pissed.

1240
01:02:55,913 --> 01:02:58,115
Maybe he hadn't seen it yet.

1241
01:03:11,661 --> 01:03:14,462
How is it possible he hasn't
talked to us all day?

1242
01:03:14,464 --> 01:03:17,134
He's giving us the silent
treatment.

1243
01:03:20,136 --> 01:03:22,136
Oh, shit, here he comes.

1244
01:03:22,138 --> 01:03:24,307
Oh, Jesus.

1245
01:03:29,546 --> 01:03:31,549
You had the story.

1246
01:03:33,317 --> 01:03:35,319
Don't ever forget how
it feels to get beat.

1247
01:03:39,723 --> 01:03:42,156
The only information Congress
is getting...

1248
01:03:42,158 --> 01:03:44,359
is coming directly from the
administration.

1249
01:03:44,361 --> 01:03:47,194
<i>Iraq is a huge country about
the size of France...</i>

1250
01:03:47,196 --> 01:03:49,230
<i>if they want to hide their
weapons of mass destruction...</i>

1251
01:03:49,232 --> 01:03:50,998
<i>they're going to be able
to do so.</i>

1252
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,368
They're not going to rethink
their positions...

1253
01:03:53,370 --> 01:03:56,004
unless they are provided
with independent intel.

1254
01:03:56,006 --> 01:03:58,640
<i>No one who's supported the
authorization for war...</i>

1255
01:03:58,642 --> 01:04:02,377
<i>in Congress, in Iraq, not the
president...</i>

1256
01:04:02,379 --> 01:04:06,348
<i>I am sure would go to war just
because he wants to go to war.</i>

1257
01:04:06,350 --> 01:04:09,984
Rumsfeld's been trying to sell
this idea that an Iraqi...

1258
01:04:09,986 --> 01:04:13,754
intelligence officer offered
bin Laden safe haven in '99.

1259
01:04:13,756 --> 01:04:15,290
Yeah.

1260
01:04:15,292 --> 01:04:17,525
Well, if that offer actually
had happened...

1261
01:04:17,527 --> 01:04:20,661
bin Laden would have told Saddam
to go fuck himself.

1262
01:04:20,663 --> 01:04:22,663
What do you make of the
statement made...

1263
01:04:22,665 --> 01:04:25,266
by the Iraqi government that
Iraq has no weapons...

1264
01:04:25,268 --> 01:04:27,634
of mass destruction
and is not developing?

1265
01:04:27,636 --> 01:04:29,406
They're lying.

1266
01:04:31,241 --> 01:04:32,607
Next.

1267
01:04:32,609 --> 01:04:34,208
Your daughter is lovely.

1268
01:04:34,210 --> 01:04:35,777
Well, I wish I could take
credit.

1269
01:04:35,779 --> 01:04:37,478
She gets it from her mother.

1270
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:38,679
Dad, can I get you
anything?

1271
01:04:38,681 --> 01:04:40,515
- Oh, no, thanks, sweetie.
- Mr. Strobel?

1272
01:04:40,517 --> 01:04:42,319
- I'm fine.
- All right.

1273
01:04:45,489 --> 01:04:47,221
Just real casual.

1274
01:04:47,223 --> 01:04:48,790
Tom and I were just talking
about your latest article.

1275
01:04:48,792 --> 01:04:50,324
Oh, yeah?

1276
01:04:50,326 --> 01:04:52,092
Seems like you don't trust
politicians.

1277
01:04:52,094 --> 01:04:55,129
Well, that's a pretty solid
rule of journalism.

1278
01:04:55,131 --> 01:04:57,232
Even when they're talking
about war?

1279
01:04:57,234 --> 01:04:59,466
Especially when they're talking
about war.

1280
01:04:59,468 --> 01:05:01,569
You really believe there's
no WMD?

1281
01:05:01,571 --> 01:05:03,638
Our names are on the article.

1282
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:05,640
They don't say that
there's no WMD.

1283
01:05:05,642 --> 01:05:07,141
They just said that the
administration...

1284
01:05:07,143 --> 01:05:08,576
hasn't offered any proof of WMD.

1285
01:05:08,578 --> 01:05:10,645
And you don't think
they'll find any?

1286
01:05:10,647 --> 01:05:13,614
No, I don't.

1287
01:05:13,616 --> 01:05:14,815
You don't know that.

1288
01:05:14,817 --> 01:05:16,551
No, we don't.

1289
01:05:16,553 --> 01:05:18,752
But before we send our kids
to their possible deaths...

1290
01:05:18,754 --> 01:05:20,487
don't you think the
administration...

1291
01:05:20,489 --> 01:05:22,390
has an obligation to provide
proof of their rationale?

1292
01:05:22,392 --> 01:05:25,560
What if that proof comes in the
form of a mushroom cloud?

1293
01:05:25,562 --> 01:05:28,730
Okay, you've been watching
Fox News again?

1294
01:05:28,732 --> 01:05:31,332
Rice, Cheney, and President Bush
have all said the same thing.

1295
01:05:31,334 --> 01:05:33,301
Oh, well, then it must be true.

1296
01:05:33,303 --> 01:05:35,270
You kids are too young
to remember...

1297
01:05:35,272 --> 01:05:37,672
how close we came to nuclear war
in '62.

1298
01:05:37,674 --> 01:05:39,540
Hell, Warren, you were born
the very day...

1299
01:05:39,542 --> 01:05:42,777
President Kennedy ordered the
blockade against Cuba.

1300
01:05:42,779 --> 01:05:45,612
The most powerful enemy we knew
was gonna put nuclear weapons...

1301
01:05:45,614 --> 01:05:47,714
90 miles off our coast.

1302
01:05:47,716 --> 01:05:49,551
The president had to demonstrate
strength.

1303
01:05:49,553 --> 01:05:53,455
And the next day, Kennedy sent
Adlai Stevenson to the U.N...

1304
01:05:53,457 --> 01:05:55,558
to offer proof that the missiles
existed.

1305
01:05:56,759 --> 01:05:58,592
It's not just Fox News.

1306
01:05:58,594 --> 01:06:01,862
It's the Washington Post.
It's The New York Times.

1307
01:06:01,864 --> 01:06:04,799
Hell, proof is coming from every
major media outlet...

1308
01:06:04,801 --> 01:06:07,705
in the country, except yours.

1309
01:06:09,272 --> 01:06:10,804
Okay.

1310
01:06:10,806 --> 01:06:16,413
Uh, I think I forgot the
hamburger buns, excuse me.

1311
01:06:18,114 --> 01:06:20,750
I'm going to grab a beer.

1312
01:06:23,352 --> 01:06:25,121
Jesus, Dad.

1313
01:06:36,299 --> 01:06:37,464
Are you okay, bro?

1314
01:06:37,466 --> 01:06:39,069
Yeah.

1315
01:06:40,870 --> 01:06:44,172
Are we good reporters?

1316
01:06:44,174 --> 01:06:45,272
What?

1317
01:06:45,274 --> 01:06:48,208
I mean, are we doing anything...

1318
01:06:48,210 --> 01:06:49,877
other than practicing good
journalism?

1319
01:06:49,879 --> 01:06:51,913
No, we're doing exactly what
we're supposed...

1320
01:06:51,915 --> 01:06:54,449
Then, why the fuck are we
the only ones...

1321
01:06:54,451 --> 01:06:56,620
running these fucking stories?!

1322
01:07:04,527 --> 01:07:06,828
He just wanted you to see
all sides to him...

1323
01:07:06,830 --> 01:07:08,466
before you take it to the
next level.

1324
01:07:13,770 --> 01:07:15,569
<i>Almost three months ago,
the United Nations...</i>

1325
01:07:15,571 --> 01:07:17,739
<i>Security Council gave
Saddam Hussein...</i>

1326
01:07:17,741 --> 01:07:20,942
<i>his final chance to disarm.</i>

1327
01:07:20,944 --> 01:07:22,777
<i>Our intelligence officials
estimate...</i>

1328
01:07:22,779 --> 01:07:24,645
<i>that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to produce...</i>

1329
01:07:24,647 --> 01:07:27,549
What's the point of having
U.N. weapons inspections...

1330
01:07:27,551 --> 01:07:30,185
if Bush and Cheney are just
going to ignore the results?

1331
01:07:30,187 --> 01:07:33,254
Well, when you're creating
your own reality...

1332
01:07:33,256 --> 01:07:35,255
it's pretty easy to ignore
the facts.

1333
01:07:35,257 --> 01:07:37,357
And so what? Due diligence is
too inconvenient...

1334
01:07:37,359 --> 01:07:39,861
for the mainstream media
at this point?

1335
01:07:39,863 --> 01:07:41,763
When news is a profit center...

1336
01:07:41,765 --> 01:07:43,531
Access becomes currency.

1337
01:07:43,533 --> 01:07:44,668
Exactly.

1338
01:07:46,402 --> 01:07:47,634
I'm proud of you, John.

1339
01:07:47,636 --> 01:07:48,703
Why?

1340
01:07:48,705 --> 01:07:52,473
For not wavering.

1341
01:07:52,475 --> 01:07:53,841
It's got to be tough.

1342
01:07:53,843 --> 01:07:55,542
It's not that tough.

1343
01:07:55,544 --> 01:07:59,746
I know who their sources are and
I know who our sources are.

1344
01:07:59,748 --> 01:08:03,384
"Iraqi Dissidents Reassured
in a Talk with Bush...

1345
01:08:03,386 --> 01:08:06,587
"About the Post-Hussein Era."

1346
01:08:06,589 --> 01:08:07,922
By Judith Miller.

1347
01:08:07,924 --> 01:08:09,656
She'd quote a carnival
fortune teller...

1348
01:08:09,658 --> 01:08:12,426
if he was willing to say
Iraq had WMD.

1349
01:08:12,428 --> 01:08:15,230
We gotta dig into the
declassified...

1350
01:08:15,232 --> 01:08:16,597
national intelligence
estimate...

1351
01:08:16,599 --> 01:08:19,234
and find out if there are any
gems in there.

1352
01:08:19,236 --> 01:08:20,302
Yeah, I'd love to see...

1353
01:08:20,304 --> 01:08:22,770
what they redacted from the
classified version.

1354
01:08:22,772 --> 01:08:24,371
WALCOTT: Oh, what's going
on with Chalabi?

1355
01:08:24,373 --> 01:08:25,707
We're on it.

1356
01:08:25,709 --> 01:08:26,908
I'm gonna keep an eye
on my old boss.

1357
01:08:26,910 --> 01:08:28,709
- I got a feeling.
- Yeah...

1358
01:08:28,711 --> 01:08:31,714
Colin may be the last person
standing between peace and war.

1359
01:08:33,750 --> 01:08:34,919
Yeah.

1360
01:08:42,559 --> 01:08:44,461
Goddamn it!

1361
01:08:49,965 --> 01:08:51,367
Fuck!

1362
01:08:56,773 --> 01:08:58,472
ARTHUR: Angela, did the mayor
set a date...

1363
01:08:58,474 --> 01:08:59,673
for the fundraiser yet?

1364
01:08:59,675 --> 01:09:02,643
Hey, Arthur, I was totally
wrong.

1365
01:09:02,645 --> 01:09:05,545
Your head isn't literally
up your ass.

1366
01:09:05,547 --> 01:09:08,348
It's always a pleasure to see
you, John...

1367
01:09:08,350 --> 01:09:10,884
but would you please wait
outside?

1368
01:09:10,886 --> 01:09:13,387
You know, it's bad enough you're
ignoring all our work...

1369
01:09:13,389 --> 01:09:15,757
but the fact that you're running
these bullshit...

1370
01:09:15,759 --> 01:09:19,326
Judy Miller pieces is
unconscionable.

1371
01:09:19,328 --> 01:09:20,727
Not in here, John.
Okay, please?

1372
01:09:20,729 --> 01:09:24,632
Let's take it in my office.
Excuse me.

1373
01:09:24,634 --> 01:09:26,801
Jesus.

1374
01:09:26,803 --> 01:09:28,569
Look, as painful as this
might seem...

1375
01:09:28,571 --> 01:09:30,370
I don't answer to you, John.

1376
01:09:30,372 --> 01:09:32,539
Yes, as evidenced by the fact
that you still have a job.

1377
01:09:32,541 --> 01:09:34,642
You know what, my responsibility
is to my readers.

1378
01:09:34,644 --> 01:09:36,311
They're citizens who are
patriots...

1379
01:09:36,313 --> 01:09:37,978
they're citizens who support
our troops.

1380
01:09:37,980 --> 01:09:40,080
And how do you do that, Arthur?

1381
01:09:40,082 --> 01:09:42,650
By going down on
The New York Times?

1382
01:09:42,652 --> 01:09:44,552
I don't have time for this.

1383
01:09:44,554 --> 01:09:45,986
No, you don't have time.

1384
01:09:45,988 --> 01:09:47,554
You don't have time.

1385
01:09:47,556 --> 01:09:48,955
You know, one day,
The New York Times...

1386
01:09:48,957 --> 01:09:50,792
is going to apologize
to its readers.

1387
01:09:50,794 --> 01:09:54,529
And when that day comes, are you
gonna write your own apology?

1388
01:09:54,531 --> 01:09:56,931
Or are you just going to run
theirs?

1389
01:09:56,933 --> 01:09:58,868
Have a nice day, John.

1390
01:10:01,403 --> 01:10:03,338
<i>It is beginning to look more
and more as though...</i>

1391
01:10:03,340 --> 01:10:05,539
<i>war with Iraq is inevitable.</i>

1392
01:10:05,541 --> 01:10:08,543
<i>The Showdown with Iraq and the
countdown to a speech...</i>

1393
01:10:08,545 --> 01:10:10,744
<i>by Secretary of State
Colin Powell...</i>

1394
01:10:10,746 --> 01:10:12,946
<i>that could move the world
closer to war.</i>

1395
01:10:12,948 --> 01:10:15,415
<i>There's not much left for the
soldiers to do but wait...</i>

1396
01:10:15,417 --> 01:10:18,886
<i>for orders to attack, Ryan
Chillcoat reports...</i>

1397
01:10:18,888 --> 01:10:21,888
That's so frustrating.

1398
01:10:21,890 --> 01:10:23,794
I don't know that I could
do what you do.

1399
01:10:25,929 --> 01:10:27,462
You know, I once got it
in my head...

1400
01:10:27,464 --> 01:10:29,530
that I should hike the
Appalachian Trail.

1401
01:10:29,532 --> 01:10:31,766
Thought that it would just be a
good challenge for myself.

1402
01:10:31,768 --> 01:10:35,372
Then I look at it on a map
and it's like 2200 miles.

1403
01:10:37,573 --> 01:10:39,374
I realized...

1404
01:10:39,376 --> 01:10:40,975
That it would take a lifetime?

1405
01:10:40,977 --> 01:10:42,712
Yeah.

1406
01:10:46,148 --> 01:10:47,817
Or we could walk it together.

1407
01:10:49,885 --> 01:10:53,987
I'm gonna hold you to that.

1408
01:10:53,989 --> 01:10:55,856
REPORTER: <i>Worldwide resistance
is mounting...</i>

1409
01:10:55,858 --> 01:10:59,593
<i>against America's military
intervention into Iraq.</i>

1410
01:10:59,595 --> 01:11:02,530
<i>From US cities to Europe and
the Middle East...</i>

1411
01:11:02,532 --> 01:11:05,600
<i>demonstrators have taken to the
streets in opposition...</i>

1412
01:11:05,602 --> 01:11:08,805
<i>to the United States'
threat to invade Iraq.</i>

1413
01:11:16,446 --> 01:11:18,478
Mr. Strobel, Mr. Landay,
how do you do?

1414
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:19,713
- Hello.
- I'm Entifadh Qanbar.

1415
01:11:19,715 --> 01:11:21,517
- Hi.
- Now, please, follow me.

1416
01:11:22,919 --> 01:11:24,518
Who's this dude?

1417
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:29,123
Guy who used to deliver pizzas.
I'm not kidding.

1418
01:11:29,125 --> 01:11:30,892
Minister Chalabi,
Mr. Jonathan Landay...

1419
01:11:30,894 --> 01:11:34,628
and Warren Strobel from Knight
Ridder News.

1420
01:11:34,630 --> 01:11:36,864
Gentlemen, welcome.

1421
01:11:36,866 --> 01:11:40,735
Hey. Thank you for finally
agreeing to meet with us.

1422
01:11:40,737 --> 01:11:43,204
I've been very busy.

1423
01:11:43,206 --> 01:11:45,606
Talking to our competitors.

1424
01:11:45,608 --> 01:11:47,909
I speak with whomever wishes
to speak with me.

1425
01:11:47,911 --> 01:11:50,210
After all, I have nothing
to hide...

1426
01:11:50,212 --> 01:11:54,182
which is more than I can say
for Saddam.

1427
01:11:54,184 --> 01:11:55,950
Okay, well, since you brought
him up...

1428
01:11:55,952 --> 01:11:57,651
I thought we might talk
about what...

1429
01:11:57,653 --> 01:11:59,719
you know about his weapons
and how he might be hiding them.

1430
01:11:59,721 --> 01:12:05,125
He has WMD and he's hiding them,
that I know.

1431
01:12:05,127 --> 01:12:07,695
Right, and you know that how?

1432
01:12:07,697 --> 01:12:10,897
I know everything that's
happening in my country.

1433
01:12:10,899 --> 01:12:14,168
Even though Iraq hasn't been
your country for over a decade?

1434
01:12:14,170 --> 01:12:19,073
I may be an exile, but I'm still
an Iraqi.

1435
01:12:19,075 --> 01:12:21,542
Well, I think the point my
colleague is trying to make...

1436
01:12:21,544 --> 01:12:24,678
is how would you, an enemy
of Saddam, in exile...

1437
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,949
have access to such valuable
information?

1438
01:12:27,951 --> 01:12:29,984
I maintain close
relationships...

1439
01:12:29,986 --> 01:12:32,152
with dissident intelligence
sources.

1440
01:12:32,154 --> 01:12:33,820
Is there a way we can
verify that?

1441
01:12:33,822 --> 01:12:35,589
No.

1442
01:12:35,591 --> 01:12:37,525
See, that's kind of a problem
for us...

1443
01:12:37,527 --> 01:12:39,060
because we can't write a story...

1444
01:12:39,062 --> 01:12:44,832
I want what America wants,
a free and democratic Iraq.

1445
01:12:44,834 --> 01:12:46,801
With you as its leader?

1446
01:12:46,803 --> 01:12:50,504
If the people of Iraq wish
for me to return, yes.

1447
01:12:50,506 --> 01:12:54,508
I want the opportunity to help
rebuild my country...

1448
01:12:54,510 --> 01:12:57,011
the way Mandela did
in South Africa.

1449
01:12:57,013 --> 01:13:01,548
But Mandela didn't ask the U.S.
to invade his country.

1450
01:13:01,550 --> 01:13:04,651
He wasn't fighting terrorists.

1451
01:13:04,653 --> 01:13:06,887
With all due respect, that's
where the red flags...

1452
01:13:06,889 --> 01:13:08,722
start to go up for us.

1453
01:13:08,724 --> 01:13:11,225
Are you implying that I've
created a false narrative...

1454
01:13:11,227 --> 01:13:12,994
for my own pursuits?

1455
01:13:12,996 --> 01:13:15,295
Is there another reason why
you'd create a false narrative?

1456
01:13:15,297 --> 01:13:18,132
I don't lie!

1457
01:13:18,134 --> 01:13:20,968
Saddam Hussein has mobile
chemical...

1458
01:13:20,970 --> 01:13:22,969
and biological weapons labs.

1459
01:13:22,971 --> 01:13:27,208
He has a nuclear program.
He has ties to terrorists.

1460
01:13:27,210 --> 01:13:30,744
And if you don't believe me,
just ask the many other...

1461
01:13:30,746 --> 01:13:32,646
defectors and hear
what they say.

1462
01:13:32,648 --> 01:13:34,682
They will all tell
you the same thing.

1463
01:13:34,684 --> 01:13:39,656
Don't they all get their
information from you?

1464
01:13:43,091 --> 01:13:46,093
If you were wondering why
it took so long for me...

1465
01:13:46,095 --> 01:13:51,865
to meet with you, it's this
smug attitude.

1466
01:13:51,867 --> 01:13:55,735
You have no intention of
reporting anything I've said.

1467
01:13:55,737 --> 01:13:58,204
Do you want us to just be your
cheerleaders?

1468
01:13:58,206 --> 01:13:59,707
All right, I think we
should go.

1469
01:13:59,709 --> 01:14:03,143
Thank you for your time.

1470
01:14:03,145 --> 01:14:07,748
Now I see why no one reads
anything you write.

1471
01:14:07,750 --> 01:14:11,319
I am an advocate for the removal
of a vicious dictator...

1472
01:14:11,321 --> 01:14:16,057
for a free Iraq, an Iraq that
will one day be a close ally...

1473
01:14:16,059 --> 01:14:20,828
to your country, to Israel, and
to all of the Western world.

1474
01:14:20,830 --> 01:14:24,164
And exactly how will this happen
after Saddam Hussein is gone?

1475
01:14:24,166 --> 01:14:25,865
All right, come on, Landay.

1476
01:14:25,867 --> 01:14:27,701
No, no, no, he says the world
will be better off...

1477
01:14:27,703 --> 01:14:29,203
but he doesn't say how.

1478
01:14:29,205 --> 01:14:31,705
How would the removal
of Saddam Hussein...

1479
01:14:31,707 --> 01:14:34,741
not plunge Iraq into a bloody
civil war?

1480
01:14:34,743 --> 01:14:36,677
Tell us something that makes
sense...

1481
01:14:36,679 --> 01:14:41,915
anything that makes sense, and
we'll write that story today.

1482
01:14:41,917 --> 01:14:43,183
You can't!

1483
01:14:43,185 --> 01:14:45,785
Because you have no
idea what happens next.

1484
01:14:45,787 --> 01:14:47,821
- And neither does anyone else.
- John. John!

1485
01:14:47,823 --> 01:14:50,758
I would rather go back and write
for my high school paper...

1486
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:52,093
than to be used by you...

1487
01:14:52,095 --> 01:14:55,161
to sell the American public
your bullshit.

1488
01:14:55,163 --> 01:14:56,132
All right.

1489
01:15:00,303 --> 01:15:04,204
By the way, it's Knight <i>Ridder.</i>

1490
01:15:04,206 --> 01:15:06,007
<i>Secretary of State Colin Powell
will make the case...</i>

1491
01:15:06,009 --> 01:15:09,310
<i>against Iraq in a nationally
televised address...</i>

1492
01:15:09,312 --> 01:15:11,779
<i>to the UN Security Council.</i>

1493
01:15:11,781 --> 01:15:13,780
Looks like they're bringing
in the closer.

1494
01:15:13,782 --> 01:15:15,249
REPORTER: <i>Mr. Secretary,
are you confident...</i>

1495
01:15:15,251 --> 01:15:16,851
<i>you will make your case, sir?</i>

1496
01:15:16,853 --> 01:15:18,319
You'll see.

1497
01:15:18,321 --> 01:15:20,154
What the hell game have we've
been playing?

1498
01:15:20,156 --> 01:15:22,292
All we did is piss into the
wind.

1499
01:15:24,426 --> 01:15:27,427
We did our jobs.

1500
01:15:27,429 --> 01:15:30,830
I should never have become
a reporter.

1501
01:15:30,832 --> 01:15:33,870
Damn that Woodward and
Bernstein.

1502
01:15:36,339 --> 01:15:39,073
They took down a president
whose biggest crime...

1503
01:15:39,075 --> 01:15:42,910
was trying to cover up some
dirty political tricks.

1504
01:15:42,912 --> 01:15:45,279
This president's about to do the
worst thing any president...

1505
01:15:45,281 --> 01:15:47,718
could do and he'll probably
get re-elected.

1506
01:15:49,852 --> 01:15:51,787
To the democratic experiment.

1507
01:15:55,257 --> 01:15:56,891
POWELL:
<i>Thank you, Mr. President.</i>

1508
01:15:56,893 --> 01:15:59,192
<i>My colleagues, every statement
I make today...</i>

1509
01:15:59,194 --> 01:16:03,931
<i>is backed up by sources,
solid sources.</i>

1510
01:16:03,933 --> 01:16:07,334
<i>The gravity of this moment is
matched by the gravity...</i>

1511
01:16:07,336 --> 01:16:10,337
<i>of the threat that Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction...</i>

1512
01:16:10,339 --> 01:16:11,905
<i>pose to the world.</i>

1513
01:16:11,907 --> 01:16:15,709
It was a set up, the whole damn
thing was a set up.

1514
01:16:15,711 --> 01:16:18,244
Tenet sent Powell a stack
of files this high...

1515
01:16:18,246 --> 01:16:19,413
that supported the invasion.

1516
01:16:19,415 --> 01:16:21,414
<i>Saddam Hussein is determined...</i>

1517
01:16:21,416 --> 01:16:23,851
<i>to get his hands
on a nuclear bomb.</i>

1518
01:16:23,853 --> 01:16:25,218
Cheney sent Scooter Libby...

1519
01:16:25,220 --> 01:16:27,887
to push three main arguments
in those files.

1520
01:16:27,889 --> 01:16:29,423
One: Saddam's human rights
abuses...

1521
01:16:29,425 --> 01:16:30,990
which everybody knew about.

1522
01:16:30,992 --> 01:16:32,860
Two: his links to al Qaeda,
which Powell...

1523
01:16:32,862 --> 01:16:34,762
of course, threw right
in the trash.

1524
01:16:34,764 --> 01:16:39,400
And the third focused
on Iraq's WMD.

1525
01:16:39,402 --> 01:16:41,869
<i>Leaving Saddam Hussein in
possession of weapons...</i>

1526
01:16:41,871 --> 01:16:44,204
<i>of mass destruction for a few
more months or years...</i>

1527
01:16:44,206 --> 01:16:48,241
<i>is not an option, not in a
post-September 11th world.</i>

1528
01:16:48,243 --> 01:16:52,178
Over a four-day period, Powell
made every single CIA officer...

1529
01:16:52,180 --> 01:16:55,415
defend every so-called piece
of evidence in those files.

1530
01:16:55,417 --> 01:16:57,250
He threw out 80% of them.

1531
01:16:57,252 --> 01:16:59,018
At the end of the four days...

1532
01:16:59,020 --> 01:17:01,254
Powell looked Tenet right
in the eye and said...

1533
01:17:01,256 --> 01:17:06,192
"George, can we stand
by every word of this?"

1534
01:17:06,194 --> 01:17:13,066
And Tenet said, "Everything in
there is gold, I promise you."

1535
01:17:13,068 --> 01:17:15,302
To which Powell replied, "Well,
that's good, George.

1536
01:17:15,304 --> 01:17:17,271
"I'm glad you feel that way,
'cause you're going to be...

1537
01:17:17,273 --> 01:17:20,307
"sitting right behind me when
I present this to the world."

1538
01:17:20,309 --> 01:17:24,410
<i>We must not fail in our duty
and our responsibility...</i>

1539
01:17:24,412 --> 01:17:26,379
<i>to the citizens of the
countries...</i>

1540
01:17:26,381 --> 01:17:29,450
<i>that are represented
by this body.</i>

1541
01:17:29,452 --> 01:17:32,285
Colin took one for the team.

1542
01:17:32,287 --> 01:17:34,320
Always the good soldier.

1543
01:17:34,322 --> 01:17:36,323
BUSH:
<i>Has the Iraqi regime fully...</i>

1544
01:17:36,325 --> 01:17:39,927
<i>and unconditionally disarmed?</i>

1545
01:17:39,929 --> 01:17:43,097
<i>The only acceptable outcome is
the one already defined...</i>

1546
01:17:43,099 --> 01:17:45,865
<i>by a unanimous vote of the
Security Council.</i>

1547
01:17:45,867 --> 01:17:49,003
<i>Total disarmament.</i>

1548
01:17:49,005 --> 01:17:51,204
<i>Great Britain, Spain and the
United States have introduced..</i>

1549
01:17:51,206 --> 01:17:54,508
<i>a new resolution stating that
Iraq has failed to meet...</i>

1550
01:17:54,510 --> 01:18:01,382
<i>the requirements
of Resolution 1441.</i>

1551
01:18:01,384 --> 01:18:05,319
<i>This is a fact, it cannot
be denied.</i>

1552
01:18:05,321 --> 01:18:06,553
REPORTER: <i>And what harm
would it do to give...</i>

1553
01:18:06,555 --> 01:18:08,489
<i>Saddam a final ultimatum?</i>

1554
01:18:08,491 --> 01:18:11,392
<i>A two or three day deadline
to disarm or face force?</i>

1555
01:18:11,394 --> 01:18:13,994
<i>September the 11th changed
the strategic thinking...</i>

1556
01:18:13,996 --> 01:18:16,230
<i>at least as far as I was
concerned...</i>

1557
01:18:16,232 --> 01:18:18,865
<i>for how to protect our country.</i>

1558
01:18:18,867 --> 01:18:24,038
<i>My job is to protect the
American people.</i>

1559
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,040
<i>Used to be that we could think
that you could contain...</i>

1560
01:18:27,042 --> 01:18:28,909
<i>a person like Saddam Hussein...</i>

1561
01:18:28,911 --> 01:18:31,611
<i>that oceans would protect us
from his type of terror.</i>

1562
01:18:31,613 --> 01:18:33,513
<i>(PHONE RINGS)</i>

1563
01:18:33,515 --> 01:18:35,516
<i>September the 11th should say
to the American people...</i>

1564
01:18:35,518 --> 01:18:37,418
Hello?

1565
01:18:37,420 --> 01:18:39,352
You need to pack your bags.

1566
01:18:39,354 --> 01:18:42,589
Right.

1567
01:18:42,591 --> 01:18:45,092
<i>In the hands of a terrorist
organization...</i>

1568
01:18:45,094 --> 01:18:48,428
<i>could be deployed here at home.</i>

1569
01:18:48,430 --> 01:18:52,432
<i>King, John King. This is a
scripted...</i>

1570
01:18:52,434 --> 01:18:54,267
<i>Thank you, Mr. President.</i>

1571
01:18:54,269 --> 01:18:56,603
<i>Sir, how would you answer your
critics who say that they...</i>

1572
01:18:56,605 --> 01:18:58,338
<i>They think this is somehow
personal?</i>

1573
01:18:58,340 --> 01:19:00,374
<i>As Senator Kennedy put it
tonight...</i>

1574
01:19:00,376 --> 01:19:02,877
<i>he said your fixation
with Saddam Hussein...</i>

1575
01:19:02,879 --> 01:19:05,079
<i>is making the world a more
dangerous place.</i>

1576
01:19:05,081 --> 01:19:07,114
<i>And as you prepare the American
people for the possibility...</i>

1577
01:19:07,116 --> 01:19:09,316
<i>of military conflict, could you
share with us...</i>

1578
01:19:09,318 --> 01:19:11,451
<i>any of the scenarios your
advisors have shared...</i>

1579
01:19:11,453 --> 01:19:15,222
<i>with you about worst-case
scenarios?</i>

1580
01:19:15,224 --> 01:19:21,464
You make sure the... this country
knows what's going on out there.

1581
01:19:22,598 --> 01:19:25,031
- Yeah?
- I will.

1582
01:19:25,033 --> 01:19:29,335
<i>I swore to protect and defend
the Constitution.</i>

1583
01:19:29,337 --> 01:19:31,371
<i>He has weapons of mass
destruction...</i>

1584
01:19:31,373 --> 01:19:34,475
<i>and he has used weapons
of mass destruction.</i>

1585
01:19:34,477 --> 01:19:36,176
<i>He has trained and financed...</i>

1586
01:19:36,178 --> 01:19:38,646
<i>al Qaeda-type organizations
before.</i>

1587
01:19:38,648 --> 01:19:42,449
<i>I take the threat seriously,
and I'll deal with the threat.</i>

1588
01:19:42,451 --> 01:19:45,319
<i>I hope it can be done
peacefully.</i>

1589
01:19:45,321 --> 01:19:48,422
<i>They hate what we stand for.</i>

1590
01:19:48,424 --> 01:19:50,227
<i>We love freedom, and we're
not changing.</i>

1591
01:19:52,127 --> 01:19:54,093
REPORTER: <i>Mr. President,
millions of Americans can...</i>

1592
01:19:54,095 --> 01:19:57,097
<i>recall a time when leaders from
both parties set this country..</i>

1593
01:19:57,099 --> 01:19:59,333
<i>on a mission of regime change
in Vietnam.</i>

1594
01:19:59,335 --> 01:20:01,968
<i>50,000 Americans died.</i>

1595
01:20:01,970 --> 01:20:04,938
<i>The regime is still there in
Hanoi and it hasn't harmed...</i>

1596
01:20:04,940 --> 01:20:06,606
<i>or threatened a single American
in 30 years...</i>

1597
01:20:06,608 --> 01:20:08,409
<i>since the war ended.</i>

1598
01:20:08,411 --> 01:20:11,177
<i>What can you say tonight, sir,
to the sons and daughters...</i>

1599
01:20:11,179 --> 01:20:14,647
<i>of the Americans who served in
Vietnam to assure them that...</i>

1600
01:20:14,649 --> 01:20:18,418
<i>you will not lead this country
down a similar path in Iraq?</i>

1601
01:20:18,420 --> 01:20:21,387
BUSH: <i>That's a great question.</i>

1602
01:20:21,389 --> 01:20:24,191
<i>No doubt, there's risks with
any military operation.</i>

1603
01:20:24,193 --> 01:20:26,026
<i>I know that.</i>

1604
01:20:26,028 --> 01:20:28,462
It's a good thing he can draw
on all that experience he got...

1605
01:20:28,464 --> 01:20:30,664
while not serving in the
National Guard.

1606
01:20:30,666 --> 01:20:34,034
<i>But it's very clear what we
intend to do.</i>

1607
01:20:34,036 --> 01:20:36,139
<i>And our mission won't change.</i>

1608
01:20:38,674 --> 01:20:43,343
<i>It could last, you know, six
days, six weeks...</i>

1609
01:20:43,345 --> 01:20:47,114
<i>I doubt six months.</i>

1610
01:20:47,116 --> 01:20:48,649
<i>There's a lot of money to pay
for this...</i>

1611
01:20:48,651 --> 01:20:50,616
<i>that doesn't have to be
U.S. taxpayer money.</i>

1612
01:20:50,618 --> 01:20:53,152
<i>We're dealing with a country
that can really finance...</i>

1613
01:20:53,154 --> 01:20:56,022
<i>its own reconstruction,
and relatively soon.</i>

1614
01:20:56,024 --> 01:20:58,592
<i>There will always be some
uncertainty...</i>

1615
01:20:58,594 --> 01:21:01,328
<i>about how quickly he can
acquire nuclear weapons...</i>

1616
01:21:01,330 --> 01:21:04,263
<i>but we don't want the smoking
gun to be a mushroom cloud.</i>

1617
01:21:04,265 --> 01:21:06,165
RUSSERT: <i>Do you think the
America people...</i>

1618
01:21:06,167 --> 01:21:09,636
<i>are prepared for a long,
costly, and bloody battle...</i>

1619
01:21:09,638 --> 01:21:12,106
<i>with significant American
casualties?</i>

1620
01:21:12,108 --> 01:21:14,173
<i>I don't think it's likely
to unfold that way, Tim...</i>

1621
01:21:14,175 --> 01:21:16,276
<i>because I really do believe we
will be greeted as liberators.</i>

1622
01:21:16,278 --> 01:21:19,213
BLITZER: <i>Six weeks after the
war had begun, the President...</i>

1623
01:21:19,215 --> 01:21:21,481
<i>is set to deliver a very
carefully worded speech...</i>

1624
01:21:21,483 --> 01:21:24,084
<i>on a carrier in the Pacific.</i>

1625
01:21:24,086 --> 01:21:27,620
BUSH: <i>My fellow Americans,
major combat operations...</i>

1626
01:21:27,622 --> 01:21:29,556
<i>in Iraq have ended.</i>

1627
01:21:29,558 --> 01:21:32,659
<i>In the battle of Iraq,
the United States...</i>

1628
01:21:32,661 --> 01:21:35,498
<i>and our allies have prevailed.</i>

1629
01:21:40,669 --> 01:21:42,238
(LOUD EXPLOSION)

1630
01:21:52,148 --> 01:21:55,051
<i>(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)</i>

1631
01:22:17,572 --> 01:22:19,575
I want to go down there.

1632
01:22:37,492 --> 01:22:40,496
They were the first to die.

1633
01:22:45,233 --> 01:22:47,370
Were you there?

1634
01:22:50,706 --> 01:22:52,108
Thank you.

1635
01:22:57,545 --> 01:22:59,281
Thank you, son.

1636
01:23:12,428 --> 01:23:15,465
<i>(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)</i>

1637
01:24:04,779 --> 01:24:06,579
<i>Jonathan, how did it feel,
therefore...</i>

1638
01:24:06,581 --> 01:24:10,350
<i>to be the lone holdouts in this
pursuit of truth and fact?</i>

1639
01:24:10,352 --> 01:24:12,718
<i>It was very lonely and what
made it actually one...</i>

1640
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,288
<i>of the ironies is...</i>

1641
01:24:14,290 --> 01:24:15,955
<i>that every time we would write
something...</i>

1642
01:24:15,957 --> 01:24:19,325
<i>the White House would say
nothing, because we realized...</i>

1643
01:24:19,327 --> 01:24:21,561
<i>after a while that that would
have been the best...</i>

1644
01:24:21,563 --> 01:24:24,530
<i>advertising for our stories we
could have possibly asked for.</i>

1645
01:24:24,532 --> 01:24:25,632
<i>There's a problem with
journalism...</i>

1646
01:24:25,634 --> 01:24:27,433
<i>in Washington, which is access.</i>

1647
01:24:27,435 --> 01:24:29,302
<i>And The New York Times and
others had access to the top...</i>

1648
01:24:29,304 --> 01:24:30,736
<i>officials who were spinning
this line.</i>

1649
01:24:30,738 --> 01:24:32,371
<i>We talked to those people,
as well...</i>

1650
01:24:32,373 --> 01:24:33,640
<i>but most of our reporting,
Christiane...</i>

1651
01:24:33,642 --> 01:24:35,642
<i>was with intelligence,
military...</i>

1652
01:24:35,644 --> 01:24:36,810
<i>and diplomatic mid-level...</i>

1653
01:24:36,812 --> 01:24:38,811
- <i>Lower level?</i>
- <i>Lower level.</i>

1654
01:24:38,813 --> 01:24:40,780
<i>The types journalists don't
normally talk to or go after.</i>

1655
01:24:40,782 --> 01:24:42,783
<i>Can I just give a little
credit, also, to the man...</i>

1656
01:24:42,785 --> 01:24:44,718
<i>who was our boss at the time,
John Walcott.</i>

1657
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:46,887
<i>Higher levels of
civilization...</i>

1658
01:24:46,889 --> 01:24:49,455
<i>must depend even more
heavily...</i>

1659
01:24:49,457 --> 01:24:52,926
<i>on a conscientious respect for
the importance of honesty...</i>

1660
01:24:52,928 --> 01:24:56,829
<i>and clarity in reporting the
facts and out of stubborn...</i>

1661
01:24:56,831 --> 01:25:02,468
<i>concern for accuracy in
determining what the facts are.</i>

1662
01:25:02,470 --> 01:25:07,240
<i>We need to find some way
to cover the world so that...</i>

1663
01:25:07,242 --> 01:25:09,543
<i>we know what's happening
out there...</i>

1664
01:25:09,545 --> 01:25:11,311
<i>that we know the truth
about it...</i>

1665
01:25:11,313 --> 01:25:15,882
<i>so we can avoid mistakes...</i>

1666
01:25:15,884 --> 01:25:18,884
<i>mistakes like Iraq.</i>

1667
01:25:18,886 --> 01:25:21,021
<i>The intelligence was
what it was.</i>

1668
01:25:21,023 --> 01:25:22,888
<i>You know, people like me
couldn't make it up.</i>

1669
01:25:22,890 --> 01:25:24,591
STEWART: <i>The intelligence
wasn't what it was...</i>

1670
01:25:24,593 --> 01:25:26,560
<i>and not everybody got it wrong.</i>

1671
01:25:26,562 --> 01:25:29,431
<i>Almost everybody did,
except for Knight Ridder.</i>

1672
01:25:29,433 --> 01:25:31,999
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1673
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