1. The defeat and breakup
of the Soviet empire,Copy !req
2. culminating in the crumbling
of the Berlin Wall,Copy !req
3. is one of the great events of world history.Copy !req
4. There were many heroes in this battle,Copy !req
5. but to Charlie Wilson must go
this special recognition.Copy !req
6. Just 13 years ago,
the Soviet Army appeared to be invincible.Copy !req
7. But Charlie, undeterred,Copy !req
8. engineered a Iethal body blow
that weakened the Communist empire.Copy !req
9. Without Charlie, history would be hugely
and sadly different.Copy !req
10. And so, for the first time,Copy !req
11. a civilian is being given
our highest recognition,Copy !req
12. that of Honored Colleague.Copy !req
13. Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,Copy !req
14. Congressman Charles Wilson.Copy !req
15. It'd be like Dallas.
- That's right.Copy !req
16. You know what I'm saying?
- Like Dallas but set in Washington.Copy !req
17. Yeah.
- And you should say it just like that.Copy !req
18. When I pitch it.
- You should say it just...Copy !req
19. 'Oh, this is fucking great.'
You should say it just like that.Copy !req
20. Dallas set in Washington D.C.Copy !req
21. You know, with the intrigue
and the power plays...Copy !req
22. and the overt natural sex.
- The glamour, the power.Copy !req
23. - Do you know what I'm saying?
- It's fucking Dallas.Copy !req
24. - Or, or Falcon Crest.Copy !req
25. Yes.
- That's set in Washington.Copy !req
26. Say it to Charlie like that.Copy !req
27. The resistance fighters disguised us
as one of them.Copy !req
28. Charlie.Copy !req
29. It's like Dallas but in Washington.Copy !req
30. With Crystal in the starring role.
- Yeah.Copy !req
31. You tell me when to watch.
I'll make sure I'm home.Copy !req
32. You don't think I can make it happen?Copy !req
33. I don't know anything
about how any of that works.Copy !req
34. I do.
- You said that you would listen to him.Copy !req
35. That's why we're here.Copy !req
36. Do they routinely give starring roles
on network programs...Copy !req
37. to people who haven't acted
professionally before?Copy !req
38. She was just on the fucking cover
of Playboy, Charlie.Copy !req
39. Well, I guess that's just the same thing.Copy !req
40. Would you take this seriously, please?Copy !req
41. I am taking it seriously, hon,
but can you all tell me something?Copy !req
42. What is...
What is Dan Rather wearing right now?Copy !req
43. What?
- Dan Rather.Copy !req
44. What is he wearing?
- You're watching TV?Copy !req
45. Why hasn't he shaved?
- Well, who gives a damn?Copy !req
46. Excuse me. Hey.
Excuse me, could you turn that up?Copy !req
47. Could you just turn up
the volume on the TV?Copy !req
48. Oh, I'm completely high.Copy !req
49. Yeah. Okay.Copy !req
50. Still, could you just grab the remote there
and find the volume button?Copy !req
51. Charlie, are we gonna do business?Copy !req
52. Dan Rather is wearing a turban, Paul.
Don't you want to know why?Copy !req
53. He's doing a thing from lndia.Copy !req
54. No, that's Afghanistan.Copy !req
55. Got it.
- Appreciate it.Copy !req
56. - We got it...
We captured it from the Afghan,Copy !req
57. the Afghan army.
- Thank you.Copy !req
58. Does he have ammunition for this?
He has three.Copy !req
59. But does he have ammunition?
A lot of ammunition?Copy !req
60. Well, he's talking about the mujahideen.Copy !req
61. - No, we don't,
we didn't capture any.Copy !req
62. - Priests?Copy !req
63. No, mujahideen means, like, holy warriors.Copy !req
64. Priests.
- How the hell am I supposed to know?Copy !req
65. Paul.Copy !req
66. And he was... He is saying that,
you know, America seems to be asleep.Copy !req
67. It doesn't seem to realize
that if Afghanistan goes...Copy !req
68. and the Russians go over to the Gulf,Copy !req
69. that in a very short time, it's going to be
the turn of the United States as well.Copy !req
70. - I'm sure he knows that in Vietnam...Copy !req
71. Excuse me.Copy !req
72. We were just wondering
what you do for a living.Copy !req
73. I'm not a police officer,
if that's what you're asking.Copy !req
74. No. We just... We don't meet a lot of guys
here who both, you know,Copy !req
75. know about the world and like to party.
- No.Copy !req
76. I'm a member
of the U.S. House of Representatives.Copy !req
77. I'm sorry?
- I'm a Congressman.Copy !req
78. Are you kidding?
- No. No, I'm absolutely serious.Copy !req
79. I'm Charlie Wilson. I represent
the Texas Second Congressional.Copy !req
80. Texas. And this is Crystal Lee.Copy !req
81. This is Paul Brown.
What are your names?Copy !req
82. Stacey.
- Stacey.Copy !req
83. Kelly.
- Kelly. Well, it's nice to meet you both.Copy !req
84. if you are a Congressman should you be
in here with strippers and blow?Copy !req
85. Hey, I'm not a stripper.Copy !req
86. I am a stripper.
- I'm a stripper.Copy !req
87. Yes, see, they were
talking about themselves.Copy !req
88. You know, you do have a point there.
I really should get going. A little pruney.Copy !req
89. Look, Charlie, I need $29,000
to make it happen.Copy !req
90. And you know I can make it happen,
and you know you want in on this.Copy !req
91. Hey, who wants to take a ride with me
to the airport?Copy !req
92. Oh, me.
- Paul?Copy !req
93. Okay.Copy !req
94. a holy war
against the Soviets.Copy !req
95. A war they say that, if they get weapons,Copy !req
96. from us or anyone else in the free world,
they will win.Copy !req
97. - Yeah, I'm with Congressman
Charles Wilson and Crystal Lee.Copy !req
98. - I wish he wouldn't do that.
- From Texas.Copy !req
99. Has there ever been a show
about Washington?Copy !req
100. I don't think there has.
- Me, neither.Copy !req
101. Thank you.
We got the suite another night. Comped.Copy !req
102. - Should I go back?
- No.Copy !req
103. You can't stay another night?
- No. No.Copy !req
104. Stay another night.
- I can't. I have a vote.Copy !req
105. What, an important one?Copy !req
106. Yes.
- What is it?Copy !req
107. Well, it's a non-binding resolution
expressing the sense of the Congress...Copy !req
108. that the Department of Defense
should continue to exercise its authority...Copy !req
109. to support the Boy Scouts of America.Copy !req
110. Are you fucking kidding me?Copy !req
111. Come on, Charlie, call, raise or fold.Copy !req
112. I want to get an answer on this thing...Copy !req
113. that Crystal and I want to do.
- First off, I'd appreciate it...Copy !req
114. if you didn't throw my name around
quite so much,Copy !req
115. 'cause, from time to time, I use it myself,
and I need it in good condition.Copy !req
116. Second, I'm from Lufkin, Texas.Copy !req
117. I'm the son of an accountant
for a timber company.Copy !req
118. I take home about 700 bucks a week,
and I pay alimony,Copy !req
119. so the idea that I got $29,000
in the bank is pretty hysterical.Copy !req
120. That said, I love your idea.Copy !req
121. Crys, I'll call you this week.
- Okay.Copy !req
122. All right.Copy !req
123. Stacey, Kelly, nice to meet you both.
Are you Nevada residents?Copy !req
124. - Yeah.
- Well, don't forget to vote.Copy !req
125. Bye. We love you.
- We love you.Copy !req
126. Oh, it helps not to know me.
Oh. That is for you.Copy !req
127. Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
128. Bye.
- Bye, Charlie.Copy !req
129. - I love Las Vegas.Copy !req
130. - All right, what else?
- That Dairy Queen guy, Larry Liddle,Copy !req
131. is sitting in your office.
- Hey.Copy !req
132. Yeah, I told him he could come in.Copy !req
133. He wants to talk to you about a crèche.Copy !req
134. What, a nativity scene with baby Jesus?Copy !req
135. Yeah, it's on public property,
and the city's making him move it.Copy !req
136. Shit. I thought he was just coming in...Copy !req
137. to get his picture took, you know?
- Congressman.Copy !req
138. Yeah?
- You're exactly who I need to speak to.Copy !req
139. You have a moment?
- Sure.Copy !req
140. Tip asked me to talk to you.
- Okay.Copy !req
141. He wanted me to talk to you
about John Murtha.Copy !req
142. Go ahead.
- The prosecutor's gonna go after him.Copy !req
143. Well, they ain't gonna find anything.Copy !req
144. John Murtha's as clean
as my mother's kitchen floor.Copy !req
145. Yeah, but Tip would like to put you
on the Ethics Committee just the same.Copy !req
146. You're kidding.
- No.Copy !req
147. Well, Jesus, Donnelly,
everyone in town knows...Copy !req
148. I'm on the other side of that issue.Copy !req
149. Ethics?
- Yeah.Copy !req
150. Well, the Speaker would like to put you
on the committee anyway.Copy !req
151. Okay. Well, if anyone asks what the hell
I'm doing on the Ethics Committee,Copy !req
152. we'll just tell them I like chasing women
and drinking whiskey...Copy !req
153. and the Speaker felt
we were underrepresented.Copy !req
154. One man, one vote.
- Exactly.Copy !req
155. Tip's gonna want to return the favor.Copy !req
156. Tuesday, right?
- That is Tuesday, yes.Copy !req
157. So if anything comes up that you'd like me
to speak with him about, please...Copy !req
158. Yes.Copy !req
159. Yes.Copy !req
160. I'd like to be on the Board of Directors
of the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
161. Charlie.
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
162. Turns out Congress appoints the
Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
163. It's a great place to take a date,
and I can never afford the tickets.Copy !req
164. Consider it done.
- Excellent.Copy !req
165. Go vote.Copy !req
166. Another few minutes.
Let's see what's on the wires.Copy !req
167. Why can't you wait for newspapers
like everybody else?Copy !req
168. 'Cause I think it's productive
to know today's news today.Copy !req
169. And it makes me one day smarter than you,
which I enjoy as well.Copy !req
170. I know you do.Copy !req
171. You don't think that's a little crazy?Copy !req
172. Pan Am and Eastern are
lowering their fares.Copy !req
173. 'Cause of Braniff.
- What's a little crazy?Copy !req
174. Joining the Board of the Kennedy Center...Copy !req
175. so you can get free tickets
to the Royal Ballet of...Copy !req
176. Hold on.
- What?Copy !req
177. AP story out of Kabul.Copy !req
178. Uzbekistan?Copy !req
179. Afghanistan.Copy !req
180. Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, lran, Iraq,
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,Copy !req
181. Jordan, lsrael, Egypt.Copy !req
182. Jim Van Wagenen's our point man
on black approps...Copy !req
183. for the Defense Subcommittee?Copy !req
184. Yeah.Copy !req
185. Have him come to my office
as soon as possible.Copy !req
186. How am I voting on this?
- Yes.Copy !req
187. You sure?
- Yes.Copy !req
188. The Boy Scouts?Copy !req
189. Jim Van Wagenen.
Get him and show him that wire story.Copy !req
190. Yes, sir.
- You are the man I wanted to talk to.Copy !req
191. The Congressman will
be here in a moment.Copy !req
192. He's just coming up from a vote.Copy !req
193. I'm sure it's an important one.
- No. Not really.Copy !req
194. - So, Marla, can you fit this
into his schedule next week?Copy !req
195. - Charlie Wilson's office.
Good morning.Copy !req
196. The third...Copy !req
197. It is? How are you?Copy !req
198. - Suzanne,
can you help me with this?Copy !req
199. - Okay. I'll be right back.
- I'll have him do it.Copy !req
200. Okay, bye-bye.Copy !req
201. - Miss?
- Yes, sir?Copy !req
202. It seems to me, looking around,
that it's almost all women working here,Copy !req
203. and that they're all very pretty.Copy !req
204. Is that common?
- Well,Copy !req
205. Congressman Wilson,
he has an expression.Copy !req
206. He says, 'You can teach them to type,
but you can't teach them to grow tits.'Copy !req
207. Well, that's charming.Copy !req
208. Larry.
- Congressman.Copy !req
209. No, no, no. For $5,000 every two years
you get to call me Charlie.Copy !req
210. And for 10,000, you can call me Betty Sue
and I'll clean out your rain gutters.Copy !req
211. This is my daughter, Jane.Copy !req
212. Well, now I remember Jane. Two-L at SMU.
- Charlie Wilson's office. Good morning.Copy !req
213. Welcome to the United States Congress.Copy !req
214. Hey, I'm gonna talk to your daddy
for a couple of seconds.Copy !req
215. Larry, can we get you a drink?Copy !req
216. It's 10:00 in the morning.
- Well, fair enough, I guess.Copy !req
217. Grab a seat.Copy !req
218. Now, this situation with the crèche,
I want to know all about it.Copy !req
219. Well, sir,Copy !req
220. every single year
since the world was young,Copy !req
221. the firehouse in the
Nacogdoches Township...Copy !req
222. has displayed a crèche.Copy !req
223. Now, the ACLU has filed suit
against the township...Copy !req
224. for displaying a religious symbol
on public property.Copy !req
225. It's Christmas time. It's a crèche.Copy !req
226. I could understand
if we were in gosh-darn Scarsdale,Copy !req
227. but this is east Texas,
and I want to know who we're offending.Copy !req
228. Except two lawyers from the ACLU.Copy !req
229. That is a terribly interesting
and complicated question.Copy !req
230. Let me make this suggestion, though.Copy !req
231. There's a church about a block and a half...Copy !req
232. from that firehouse,
First Baptist Church of Nacogdoches.Copy !req
233. They've got a beautiful rolling lawn...Copy !req
234. out there in front.Copy !req
235. No, no. This is a Christian country, Charlie,Copy !req
236. founded on Christian values.
- Sure.Copy !req
237. We welcome other faiths to worship
as they wish,Copy !req
238. but when you can't put a nativity scene...Copy !req
239. in front of a firehouse at Christmas time
in Nacogdoches Township,Copy !req
240. something's gone terribly wrong.Copy !req
241. Well, that's not really true, Larry.Copy !req
242. You could move that crèche
over to that church...Copy !req
243. and everything's just fine.
- That's not the point.Copy !req
244. Okay. Why don't we just start back
at the beginning?Copy !req
245. What can I do for you?Copy !req
246. You can intervene in the case
against the crèche committee.Copy !req
247. lntervene? How?Copy !req
248. You appointed the judge.
- I don't appoint judges.Copy !req
249. I just made a recommendation
to the President.Copy !req
250. I think you and I both know
what that means.Copy !req
251. I cannot just call up a judge
and tell him what to do.Copy !req
252. Why?
- Well, 'cause it's against a shitload...Copy !req
253. of really good laws, Gary.Copy !req
254. Larry.
- Larry.Copy !req
255. I got to go talk to this guy out here
for a second. Will you excuse me?Copy !req
256. By the way, I love Jesus Christ
and his mother Mary as much as anybody.Copy !req
257. About 38 churches you could move
that crèche to, everybody lives.Copy !req
258. Give me a call.
- Okay.Copy !req
259. I love Chivas.Copy !req
260. Jane, how are you?Copy !req
261. You need a cup of coffee?Copy !req
262. Something to drink?
Anything like that? Okay.Copy !req
263. Jim.
- Congressman.Copy !req
264. You see Iederer's AP story out of Kabul?Copy !req
265. Yeah.
We're reading this story every day now.Copy !req
266. You see Dan Rather last night?
- Yeah. I did.Copy !req
267. Tell me something.Copy !req
268. What is the Defense
Subcommittee's budget...Copy !req
269. for covert ops against the Communists
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
270. All in?
- All in.Copy !req
271. It's 5 million.Copy !req
272. Well, they can't shoot down helicopters
for $5 million, Jim.Copy !req
273. Though they're trying to.
Which is more than I can say for us.Copy !req
274. Get everybody together for me, would you?
And double it.Copy !req
275. - Charlie Wilson's office.Copy !req
276. Okay, I'm sorry, sir?Copy !req
277. The covert ops budget. Double it.Copy !req
278. Okay.Copy !req
279. This ain't gonna be much longer, okay?Copy !req
280. Here's what I'm gonna do, Larry.Copy !req
281. - Charlie Wilson's office.Copy !req
282. Maybe in about 20 minutes.
He's just going into a meeting.Copy !req
283. Sure.Copy !req
284. My XO wrote in a report,Copy !req
285. I was the best officer
he ever served at sea with,Copy !req
286. and the worst officer
he ever served in port with.Copy !req
287. You can look it up.Copy !req
288. I must've graduated from Annapolis...Copy !req
289. with the second most demerits
of any midshipman...Copy !req
290. in the history of the Naval Academy.Copy !req
291. - Well, who had the most?
I want to sleep with him.Copy !req
292. It's hotter here in
D.C. than in Nacogdoches,Copy !req
293. so I hope you don't mind,
I took off a few of my clothes.Copy !req
294. Well, I'm just gonna have
to live with that, Jane.Copy !req
295. Just call me angel of the morning, angelCopy !req
296. Just touch my cheek before you leave meCopy !req
297. Come on over here. I'm gonna show you
the best view in the District.Copy !req
298. You want some of this?
- No, no, I got this.Copy !req
299. I like both.
- Well, it must be great being me.Copy !req
300. I've heard it is.Copy !req
301. lwo Jima Memorial.Copy !req
302. There's the Lincoln.Copy !req
303. Washington.
Now follow it around to the right.Copy !req
304. The Jefferson Memorial.
The Arlington Bridge.Copy !req
305. And there's the Pentagon.Copy !req
306. Oh, that's the Pentagon.
- That's the Pentagon.Copy !req
307. How about I show you
the second best view...Copy !req
308. in the District?Copy !req
309. Why, Jane, would you like...Copy !req
310. Well, that was predictable.Copy !req
311. Just give me one second.Copy !req
312. Hello?Copy !req
313. - That was an extraordinary thing...Copy !req
314. you did today.Copy !req
315. Who is this?
- It's Joanne.Copy !req
316. Joanne.Copy !req
317. Why, gosh, how nice to hear from you.
Could I call you back in a little bit?Copy !req
318. Is Ronald Reagan
in your bedroom right now?Copy !req
319. No.
- Then I'm considerably more important...Copy !req
320. than whoever is.
- Is anything wrong?Copy !req
321. This is gonna take just a second or two.Copy !req
322. Okay, I'm all yours.Copy !req
323. What did I do that was so extraordinary?Copy !req
324. 'Double it.'Copy !req
325. 'Cause I was told
you didn't have a girlfriend.Copy !req
326. What?
- You told Jim Van Wagenen to double it.Copy !req
327. Well, shit, Joanne,
I don't know what you're talking about,Copy !req
328. and if I did, it'd be classified,Copy !req
329. and I'd wonder
where you got your information...Copy !req
330. on the Subcommittee.Copy !req
331. Oh, what do you care, hon?Copy !req
332. It's a little matter of national security
and I can't help but think...Copy !req
333. Excuse me, I'm sorry.Copy !req
334. Hold on.
- I am sorry,Copy !req
335. but I was told you didn't have a girlfriend.Copy !req
336. I don't. This isn't my girlfriend.
It's the sixth wealthiest woman in Texas.Copy !req
337. Which is still pretty good.Copy !req
338. Okay, so, hi.Copy !req
339. A friend of mine has made
a terrific movie about the need...Copy !req
340. for American aid to Afghanistan.Copy !req
341. He's made a movie?
- Yes.Copy !req
342. I'm gonna run this movie Friday night
at my house at a fundraiser.Copy !req
343. You know, you've never been
to my house, Charlie.Copy !req
344. You want me to come to Houston
and see a movie?Copy !req
345. There'll be women and wealthy donors.
See you Friday.Copy !req
346. Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
347. Hey.Copy !req
348. Thank you, Joanne.Copy !req
349. Okay. I know it was difficult for you
to come in here, hat in hand.Copy !req
350. That's not the kind of upbringing, I guess,
is the word I'm looking for.Copy !req
351. It's not the kind of man you are.
I understand that.Copy !req
352. I'm not looking to humiliate you
or exact a price in any way,Copy !req
353. so why don't you just apologize?Copy !req
354. We'll call it water under the dam,
and we'll go about our business.Copy !req
355. Excuse me, what the fuck?Copy !req
356. What?
- What the fuck are you talking about?Copy !req
357. Clair George said you were coming in here
to apologize.Copy !req
358. No, I'm supposed to come in here
so you could apologize to me.Copy !req
359. According to whom?
- Clair George.Copy !req
360. You told me to go fuck myself.
I'm supposed to apologize to you?Copy !req
361. Also, water goes over a dam
and under a bridge, you poncy schoolboy.Copy !req
362. Clearly there's been a miscommunication
between Clair George and somebody.Copy !req
363. Excuse me.
- Yes?Copy !req
364. Does this look all right?
- It's fine.Copy !req
365. Thank you.
- I can sand it down a little.Copy !req
366. l, I don't know.
I have no fucking idea who this guy is.Copy !req
367. He is here to fix the glass that you broke
the last time you were here.Copy !req
368. Could you just excuse us...Copy !req
369. for a second there?
- Yes.Copy !req
370. You tell me to go fuck myself...Copy !req
371. and I'm supposed to apologize?
You break my window,Copy !req
372. I'm supposed to apologize?
- The Helsinki job was mine.Copy !req
373. The Helsinki job was not yours.
if it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.Copy !req
374. Alan Wolfe stood in this office.
- Alan Wolfe...Copy !req
375. is no longer the Director.
- Yeah, it was on the books.Copy !req
376. Alan Wolfe is no longer
the Director of European Operations.Copy !req
377. He does not make those
appointments. I do.Copy !req
378. Promises were made.
- Not by me.Copy !req
379. I've been with the company for 24 years.Copy !req
380. I was posted in Greece for 15.Copy !req
381. Papandreou wins that election
if I don't help the junta take him prisoner.Copy !req
382. I've advised and armed the Hellenic army.
I've neutralized champions of Communism.Copy !req
383. I've spent the past three years
learning Finnish.Copy !req
384. Which should come in handy
here in Virginia.Copy !req
385. And I'm never, ever, sick at sea.Copy !req
386. So I want to know why I'm not gonna be
your Helsinki station chief.Copy !req
387. You're coarse.
- Excuse me?Copy !req
388. For Helsinki, I need someone
with diplomatic skills.Copy !req
389. You don't have them.
- Is that right?Copy !req
390. That is right. And I don't know
why the hell I didn't fire you...Copy !req
391. when you broke my fucking window.
- Oh, yes, sure you do, Cravely.Copy !req
392. Look, Gust...
- Yeah, you're fucking Roger's fiancée...Copy !req
393. and you know I know.Copy !req
394. I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that
with a response.Copy !req
395. Yeah, yeah, you're
dignifying her in the ass...Copy !req
396. at the Jefferson Hotel, room 1210.Copy !req
397. But let me ask you.
The 3,000 agents Turner fired...Copy !req
398. was that because they lacked
diplomatic skills as well?Copy !req
399. You're referring
to Admiral Stansfield Turner?Copy !req
400. Yeah, the 3,000 agents.Copy !req
401. Each and every goddamn one of them
first or second generation Americans.Copy !req
402. Is that because they lack
the proper diplomatic skills?Copy !req
403. Or did Turner not think it was a good idea
to have spies...Copy !req
404. who could speak the same language
as the people they're fucking spying on?Copy !req
405. Well, I'm sorry,
but you can hardly blame the Director...Copy !req
406. for questioning the loyalty to America
of people that are just barely Americans...Copy !req
407. in the first place.
- Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment...Copy !req
408. to review the several ways
in which you're a douchebag.Copy !req
409. Get the fuck out of my office.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
410. Before I end your career, asshole.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
411. Yeah, my friend,
I'm gonna need you for a second.Copy !req
412. God damn it.Copy !req
413. My loyalty?Copy !req
414. For 24 years,
people have been trying to kill me.Copy !req
415. People who know how.Copy !req
416. Now, do you think that's because
my dad was a Greek soda pop maker...Copy !req
417. or do you think that's
because I'm an American spy?Copy !req
418. Go fuck yourself, you fucking child.Copy !req
419. How was l?Copy !req
420. Thank you.Copy !req
421. There's a woman in Aliquippa,
Pennsylvania, named Nitsa.Copy !req
422. And she thinks she's a witch.Copy !req
423. Yeah, she offered to put a curse
on Cravely for me.Copy !req
424. Yeah?Copy !req
425. And she...Copy !req
426. She asked me do I want
a professional curse...Copy !req
427. or a health curse.Copy !req
428. 'if it's a health curse, I can do it right away,
but a professional curse takes longer.'Copy !req
429. Well, I'm living proof she's right about that.Copy !req
430. Did you get the brownie?
- Oh, no, sir, I didn't.Copy !req
431. I got you.Copy !req
432. I'm reading transcripts
of phone conversations...Copy !req
433. between French and German generals...Copy !req
434. arguing over office space
at NATO headquarters...Copy !req
435. and analyzing wiretaps
out of Mercury Bay, New Zealand.Copy !req
436. You know, historically, a hotbed
of anti-American activity.Copy !req
437. Yeah, nobody will come near me.
I'm in the weeds.Copy !req
438. You know, a typical case officer...Copy !req
439. doesn't walk into his boss's office
and tell him to go fuck himself. Twice.Copy !req
440. I just told you,
I paid a witch in Pennsylvania $80...Copy !req
441. to put a curse on Henry Cravely for me.Copy !req
442. Do I sound like a typical case officer?
- No.Copy !req
443. Well, then, let's assume I'm not.Copy !req
444. Listen. If you're really not doing anything,Copy !req
445. why don't you come upstairs
and work with us?Copy !req
446. What are you doing?
- Killing Russians.Copy !req
447. Our next slave girl
is a Texas rose named Ashley Rensler.Copy !req
448. Ashley is prelaw at U.T.,
and her three sorority sisters...Copy !req
449. from Delta Delta Delta
will wash your car or truck...Copy !req
450. in special outfits they have chosen
for the occasion.Copy !req
451. So, who wants their wheels cleaned clean
as a whistle by a 19-year-old Iawyer...Copy !req
452. and her three friends from Tri-Delt?Copy !req
453. I have 10,000, who'II give me 11?
11, 11, I got 11.Copy !req
454. I got 15 right here. Thank you very much.Copy !req
455. Oh, my God, she is a Minute Woman.Copy !req
456. No, she's a Tri-Delt.Copy !req
457. No, she is a Minute Woman, Charlie.
- Oh. Joanne.Copy !req
458. Yeah, she's a direct descendant
of George Washington's sister.Copy !req
459. Says she had a great uncle
who was killed at the Alamo.Copy !req
460. Former Miss Cotton Bowl.
Had her own local television talk show.Copy !req
461. Look. Pakistan's Honorary Consul
to Houston, Texas.Copy !req
462. How's that for a title, huh?Copy !req
463. This is an ultra-right wing group
of anti-Communist fanatics.Copy !req
464. They're not ultra-right wing.
- What are they?Copy !req
465. Well, they're ultra-right wing.Copy !req
466. What are you doing
hanging around this woman?Copy !req
467. Did you hear me say
she was a former Miss Cotton Bowl?Copy !req
468. You are unbelievable.
- Oh, come on. You're gonna love her.Copy !req
469. And, you know, one of the things
she's trying to do over there...Copy !req
470. is liberate the women.Copy !req
471. And what better way
than through a slave girl auction?Copy !req
472. - Charlie.Copy !req
473. So sorry for keeping you waiting.Copy !req
474. Oh, it's no problem, Joanne.Copy !req
475. This is Bonnie Bach.
- So nice to meet you.Copy !req
476. It's a pleasure meeting you, Mrs. Herring.
This is a wonderful party.Copy !req
477. Why don't you give us a few moments?Copy !req
478. Yes, sir.Copy !req
479. Oh, Bobbie, if you could ask someone
for a Bombay martini up, very dry?Copy !req
480. Oh, I'm not a slave girl, actually.Copy !req
481. I'm the Congressman's
administrative assistant.Copy !req
482. isn't that wonderful for you.
- Yes.Copy !req
483. Two olives, please.
Tell them it's for me, they'll know.Copy !req
484. Certainly.Copy !req
485. She doesn't like me.Copy !req
486. Everybody likes you.
- She's a liberal.Copy !req
487. Well, I'm a liberal.Copy !req
488. Not where it counts.Copy !req
489. Have you seen the house?Copy !req
490. Well, I've seen the downstairs,
what's upstairs?Copy !req
491. Fourteen bedrooms.Copy !req
492. I should have a look.Copy !req
493. What did you think of the movie?
- What, that thing we just saw?Copy !req
494. The reason for the party, yes.Copy !req
495. Well, I'm not an expert
in the field or anything,Copy !req
496. but the production quality
seemed amateurish to me.Copy !req
497. Yeah, I'm not submitting the thing
for a Golden Globe nomination, Charlie.Copy !req
498. You know what I'm talking about.Copy !req
499. Well, as a member
of the Defense Subcommittee,Copy !req
500. did you think I wasn't aware...Copy !req
501. that the Soviet Union's
invaded Afghanistan?Copy !req
502. Yes, I believe my government is aware,Copy !req
503. but I was wondering if they were thinking
of doing anything about it...Copy !req
504. other than boycotting the Olympics,
which I think you'll agree,Copy !req
505. was a fairly impotent response...Copy !req
506. to the greatest national security threat
we've faced since the Cuban Missile Crisis.Copy !req
507. Well, I don't think making more movies
about it is gonna do the trick,Copy !req
508. if that's what you're asking.Copy !req
509. It's not.Copy !req
510. Exactly how much power do you have
as a member of the Subcommittee?Copy !req
511. Which one? I'm on two.
- Foreign Ops.Copy !req
512. Eight members and myself hand out
11 billion in foreign assistance.Copy !req
513. And what about the
Defense Subcommittee?Copy !req
514. Our budget is hidden.Copy !req
515. It is also unlimited.
- Yeah.Copy !req
516. Would you like to see my room?Copy !req
517. Yeah.Copy !req
518. So, unless I'm wrong,
and that would be unusual for me,Copy !req
519. you sit at the intersection
of the State Department,Copy !req
520. the Pentagon and the ClA.Copy !req
521. You meet in a soundproof room
underneath the Capitol,Copy !req
522. and you preside over a secret
and unlimited budget...Copy !req
523. for the three agencies you would need
to conduct a covert war.Copy !req
524. isn't that right?Copy !req
525. I also have seats at the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
526. isn't that how you were able...Copy !req
527. to double the ClA budget
for black approps...Copy !req
528. in Afghanistan just by saying so?Copy !req
529. Why are you only asking me questions
you already know the answers to?Copy !req
530. Why is Congress saying one thing
and doing nothing?Copy !req
531. Well, tradition mostly.Copy !req
532. Come here.Copy !req
533. Okay.Copy !req
534. I do not understand
the energy women have after sex.Copy !req
535. You're dancing around, you're baking a pie.Copy !req
536. - Charlie?
- Yes, ma'am?Copy !req
537. Why is the ClA running a fake war
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
538. They're doing everything they can.Copy !req
539. They're doing it badly.Copy !req
540. The ClA is arming the mujahideen.Copy !req
541. Where do you think
they're getting their weapons?Copy !req
542. They're arming them
with 12.7 millimeter Dishukas...Copy !req
543. which would be good,Copy !req
544. except the Soviets have specifically
amour-plated their Hind helicopter...Copy !req
545. to resist a 12.7 millimeter shell.Copy !req
546. We sold Pakistan F-16s,Copy !req
547. but didn't give them
the look-down/shoot-down radar.Copy !req
548. if this were a real war,Copy !req
549. State would issue a white paper
outlining the Communist threat...Copy !req
550. the way they did in El Salvador.Copy !req
551. if this were a real war,Copy !req
552. there'd be a National
Bipartisan Commission...Copy !req
553. on Afghanistan, headed
by Henry Kissinger...Copy !req
554. the way they did in Central America.Copy !req
555. if this were a real war,
Congress would authorize $24 million...Copy !req
556. for covert operations
the way you did in Nicaragua.Copy !req
557. if this were a real war...Copy !req
558. You may be the sexiest woman ever.Copy !req
559. I'm not kidding. You are Helen of Troy.Copy !req
560. Are you patronizing me?
- What do you want me to do, Joanne?Copy !req
561. This is what I want you to do.Copy !req
562. I want you to save Afghanistan
for the Afghans.Copy !req
563. I want you to deliver such a crushing defeat
to the Soviets that Communism crumbles,Copy !req
564. and in so doing, end the Cold War.Copy !req
565. I'll tell you, I'd do it, too,Copy !req
566. but I got this Dairy Queen problem
in Nacogdoches.Copy !req
567. Don't underestimate me, Charlie.
Believe everything you've heard.Copy !req
568. What exactly do you want me to do?Copy !req
569. Go to Pakistan and meet with Zia.
- Zia?Copy !req
570. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.Copy !req
571. He's the President of Pakistan.Copy !req
572. I've already arranged it.Copy !req
573. You've arranged a meeting
between me and the President of Pakistan?Copy !req
574. Yes.Copy !req
575. You're going to lsrael next week
to meet with Zvi Rafiah about the Lavi jets.Copy !req
576. I want you to tack Pakistan
on the end of your trip.Copy !req
577. And meet with the President?Copy !req
578. Let him convince you
that it's a Christian imperative...Copy !req
579. to let the Afghans rid their country
of Communism.Copy !req
580. Okay. It's not likely
the President of Pakistan is a Christian,Copy !req
581. but I'm gonna do this for you, Joanne,Copy !req
582. 'cause you saved my ass once
with the pro-lifers...Copy !req
583. and I owe you my seat in Congress
and because you look very good naked.Copy !req
584. But I have to tell you, I'm elected by Jews.Copy !req
585. How many Jews do you have
in your district?Copy !req
586. Seven.Copy !req
587. But congressmen aren't elected by voters,
they're elected by contributors,Copy !req
588. and mine are in,
well, New York, Florida, Hollywood,Copy !req
589. because I'm one of lsrael's guys on the Hill.Copy !req
590. And I don't know how they're gonna feel
about me taking up the cause of Muslims.Copy !req
591. Well, that's your problem.
- Yes, it is.Copy !req
592. Go fight this war and win it, Charlie.Copy !req
593. Everything possible is on the line,
including your manhood.Copy !req
594. Oh, I was afraid you were gonna say that.Copy !req
595. Well, I guess it ain't gonna be twice tonight.Copy !req
596. Well, I guess somebody can't count.Copy !req
597. Oh, darling, I was talking about me.Copy !req
598. Congressman Charlie Wilson.Copy !req
599. Mr. Congressman.
- Mr. President.Copy !req
600. Come.Copy !req
601. Joanne Herring speaks very highly of you.
- Oh, well, thank you, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
602. These are two of my brightest advisors...Copy !req
603. when it comes to the problem
of the Soviets.Copy !req
604. This is Brigadier Rashid.Copy !req
605. How do you do?
- Pleased to meet you.Copy !req
606. Colonel Mahmood.
- How do you do?Copy !req
607. Pleased to meet you.Copy !req
608. Please come.
- Thank you.Copy !req
609. You must be thirsty.
Can we get you a drink?Copy !req
610. Oh, actually I'd love a glass of ice
and any kind of whiskey.Copy !req
611. Rye, Canadian.Copy !req
612. I'm sorry, Congressman,
we don't have alcohol...Copy !req
613. in the Presidential Residence.Copy !req
614. Of course, you don't. I apologize.Copy !req
615. Fruit juice?Copy !req
616. Bet a lot of people make that mistake.Copy !req
617. No.Copy !req
618. Okay.
- Brigadier?Copy !req
619. So you understand the situation
on our border?Copy !req
620. Yes, sir, I think I do. And I think it's terrible.Copy !req
621. And I know I speak for all the people...Copy !req
622. in the Texas Second
Congressional District...Copy !req
623. when I say our thoughts
and our prayers are with you.Copy !req
624. All the people
of the Texas Second Congressional District,Copy !req
625. you say?
- Yes, indeed, sir.Copy !req
626. Three million Afghan refugees
are living like poorly treated livestock.Copy !req
627. Another two million have fled into lran.Copy !req
628. And two million more angry men...Copy !req
629. is just what the doctors ordered for lran,
don't you think?Copy !req
630. People are dying by the tens of thousands.Copy !req
631. And the ones that aren't are crossing
into Pakistan every day.Copy !req
632. - Would you
like to know how many?Copy !req
633. One fifth of Afghanistan now lives
in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.Copy !req
634. - So, what I have been wondering is...Copy !req
635. why your State Department would
send someone here...Copy !req
636. who thinks he understands the problem.Copy !req
637. 'Cause I don't think the prayers...Copy !req
638. of the Texas Second
Congressional District...Copy !req
639. are going to turn the trick.Copy !req
640. Well, now, I wasn't sent here
by the State Department, Mr. President.Copy !req
641. I was asked to come here
by our friend in Houston.Copy !req
642. So this is a courtesy call.Copy !req
643. I don't need courtesy.
I need airplanes, guns and money.Copy !req
644. Well, we just doubled the ClA budget...Copy !req
645. for covert ops...
- From 5 million to 10 million.Copy !req
646. That's right.
- Is that a joke?Copy !req
647. No.
- Is that meant to be a funny joke?Copy !req
648. No, sir.Copy !req
649. - Congressman, what they're saying is...Copy !req
650. $10 million from the U.S.
to fight the Russian Army...Copy !req
651. is such a low figure
that it can be mistaken for a joke.Copy !req
652. I caught up to the sarcasm there, sir.
Let me be clear.Copy !req
653. The United States is eager to assist you.Copy !req
654. No, you're not.
- You're not.Copy !req
655. Absolutely not.
- I went to Oxford...Copy !req
656. and I know what that word means.Copy !req
657. The U.S. is not eager to assist us.Copy !req
658. Well, now it's my understanding
that we offered to sell you F-16s.Copy !req
659. You didn't want them.
- Because you refused to sell us the radar.Copy !req
660. - So to hell with that.Copy !req
661. - And this is emblematic
of American fence sitting...Copy !req
662. when it comes to fighting the Soviets.Copy !req
663. To hell with it.
- You sell us the planes but not the radar.Copy !req
664. You offer Afghans rifles
from the First World War...Copy !req
665. while Soviet helicopters
are killing everything they can find,Copy !req
666. people, animals, food supplies.
- So to hell with it.Copy !req
667. Yeah.
- You sell the lsraelis the radar,Copy !req
668. so that's why he says, 'To hell with it.'Copy !req
669. Again, I understood. Yeah.Copy !req
670. Also, the arms and funding
should flow through us.Copy !req
671. I'm sorry?
- That's been part of the problem.Copy !req
672. The arms and the funding
should flow through us.Copy !req
673. We have experience with warfare
of this kind.Copy !req
674. And your ClA
has an unimpressive track record.Copy !req
675. Oh. I wouldn't say that.Copy !req
676. They missed 130,000 Soviet soldiers
walking into Afghanistan.Copy !req
677. Okay, we blew that call.Copy !req
678. I would say so.Copy !req
679. Well, I don't want to use up anymore
of your hospitality,Copy !req
680. so I will take your message back
to my committee chairman,Copy !req
681. and we will give it our fullest attention.Copy !req
682. Let me walk you to the door.Copy !req
683. I learned about you
before you came here.Copy !req
684. I learned that you're a man
of many character flaws.Copy !req
685. I am.Copy !req
686. But I also learned
that you never promise anything...Copy !req
687. you cannot deliver.Copy !req
688. No, I don't, Mr. President.Copy !req
689. Then promise me this.Copy !req
690. Go to Peshawar and
see the refugee camps.Copy !req
691. Right now. Today.Copy !req
692. Go to Peshawar
and see with your own eyes.Copy !req
693. I have a helicopter waiting to take you.Copy !req
694. All right, I'll do it.Copy !req
695. Thank you, Mr. Congressman.
- Mr. President.Copy !req
696. All right, you, come on.Copy !req
697. How did it go?
- Well, there were three of them.Copy !req
698. It was like getting slapped around
by a Pakistani vaudeville team.Copy !req
699. You know
you've pretty much hit rock bottom...Copy !req
700. when you've been told
you have character flaws by a man...Copy !req
701. who hanged his predecessor
in a military coup.Copy !req
702. Can we go home now?
- No. No, we have to make one more stop.Copy !req
703. I've seen enough.Copy !req
704. About 350 people
in three small villages at Kandahar.Copy !req
705. But instead of doing it all at once,Copy !req
706. the Russians would make
the parents watch...Copy !req
707. as they slit the throats of the children.Copy !req
708. So, the Russians gathered all the defectors
and piled them like wood...Copy !req
709. in the center of the village.Copy !req
710. Then they ran over them with their tanks.Copy !req
711. - I saw something
shiny on the ground. I thought it was a toy.Copy !req
712. When I reached down to grab it,
it exploded in my hand.Copy !req
713. I should have known.Copy !req
714. Because last year my little brother tried
to pick up a piece of candy.Copy !req
715. It split him in half.Copy !req
716. It takes more work to take care
of a wounded child than a dead one.Copy !req
717. So when the Russians cover fields
with toy mines,Copy !req
718. adults who might help with the war effort
have to take care of the children.Copy !req
719. - You can see yourself.Copy !req
720. Like a bug.Copy !req
721. They're beautiful.Copy !req
722. How many children do you have?Copy !req
723. She had six.Copy !req
724. So, what do you want to be
when you grow up?Copy !req
725. Hi. I have Congressman Wilson here
to see the station chief, Harold Holt.Copy !req
726. Down the hall. Second door on the left.Copy !req
727. I'll wait outside.Copy !req
728. Look, normally, a congressional delegation,Copy !req
729. we'd give them a courtesy briefing
on the situation, but as you can see,Copy !req
730. it's getting pretty late, we don't have
a whole lot of time anyway, so...Copy !req
731. Well, make the time.Copy !req
732. Fuck your time, Harold.
I'm on Defense Appropriations.Copy !req
733. I'm catching a plane back to Washington
in just a few minutes.Copy !req
734. Now, I need a full classified briefing
right now.Copy !req
735. Hundred and twenty thousand
Soviet troops in all.Copy !req
736. Hundred and twenty thousand?
- 40th Army is garrisoned in the cities...Copy !req
737. and in the airports.Copy !req
738. Your seventh and eighth infantry divisions
are in Kabul.Copy !req
739. The 18th in Mazar-e Sharif,
the fourth armored...Copy !req
740. Anything inside?
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
741. They controlling anything inside?Copy !req
742. Soviet advisors have appropriated
the Afghan intel service and the ministries.Copy !req
743. Which ministries?Copy !req
744. All of them.Copy !req
745. Anyway, the fourth armored
covers Bagram Airbase.Copy !req
746. Seventh Armored is...Copy !req
747. Why ain't they shooting down
them helicopters?Copy !req
748. I'm sorry?
- The helicopters, Harold.Copy !req
749. Why ain't we giving them something
to shoot down them helicopters?Copy !req
750. The helicopters are a problem.Copy !req
751. You think?Copy !req
752. Congressman...
- They're shooting at Soviet gunships...Copy !req
753. with Enfield rifles.
That's basically what Davy Crockett used.Copy !req
754. The Soviet Hind gunship
is especially amour...Copy !req
755. plated to resist bullets.Copy !req
756. Yeah, I know, I know. So you tell me
what you need to shoot them down.Copy !req
757. What do you mean?
- Tell me what you need.Copy !req
758. Do you understand what I'm saying?Copy !req
759. You tell me what you need,
and I will go about getting it for you.Copy !req
760. Congressman, I appreciate your generosity,Copy !req
761. but a sudden influx of money...Copy !req
762. and modern weaponry
would draw attention.Copy !req
763. What?
- A sudden influx of money and modern...Copy !req
764. Wait, it would draw attention?
- Yeah.Copy !req
765. Why, I don't even know what that means.Copy !req
766. This is the Cold War.
Everybody knows about it.Copy !req
767. Should I continue with the briefing?Copy !req
768. Have you been to these refugee camps?
Have you heard these stories?Copy !req
769. Congressman, I am required
to give you a briefing.Copy !req
770. Should I continue?Copy !req
771. No. Thank you.Copy !req
772. You know, I had a neighbor, growing up,
with a name right out of Dickens.Copy !req
773. Mr. Charles Hazard.Copy !req
774. And Mr. Hazard didn't like
the neighborhood dogs...Copy !req
775. messing up his flower beds.Copy !req
776. One day, I heard a bunch of yelling
from across the street,Copy !req
777. so I ran on over to Mr. Hazard's,Copy !req
778. and there were about 15 grown-ups
standing around my dog, Teddy,Copy !req
779. who was writhing on the ground
in obvious agony.Copy !req
780. Blood was pouring out of his mouth.Copy !req
781. Mr. Hazard had ground up a glass bottle...Copy !req
782. and put it in a bowl of dog food
and fed it to him.Copy !req
783. What did you do?Copy !req
784. Well, I got some gasoline
and burned down his flower beds.Copy !req
785. But that wasn't satisfying enough.Copy !req
786. And then I remembered,
Mr. Hazard was an elected official.Copy !req
787. He was the head of the town council.Copy !req
788. His reelection every two years
was a foregone conclusion.Copy !req
789. So come Election Day,
I drove over to the black section of town.Copy !req
790. Now, these people hadn't voted
in any of these elections, so...Copy !req
791. I was only 13, but l
had a farmer's license...Copy !req
792. and I filled up my car with black voters
and drove them to the polling place...Copy !req
793. and then waited, then
drove them on home.Copy !req
794. But before they got out of the car to vote...Copy !req
795. I said, 'l don't mean to influence you,
but I think you should know...Copy !req
796. 'Mr. Charles Hazard
has intentionally killed my dog.'Copy !req
797. About 400 ballots were cast in that election.Copy !req
798. I drove 96 of them to the polls.Copy !req
799. Hazard lost by 16 votes.Copy !req
800. And that's the day I fell in love
with America.Copy !req
801. What time do we land?Copy !req
802. 7:30 a.m. in D.C.Copy !req
803. I want the ClA in my office at 10:00.Copy !req
804. Assistant Deputy Director or higher.Copy !req
805. Tell them that if I don't see
someone at 10:00,Copy !req
806. I'm gonna start docking their allowance
at a rate of $1 million a minute.Copy !req
807. Yes, sir.Copy !req
808. And get me another one of them,
would you?Copy !req
809. Yes, sir.Copy !req
810. - The AKs,
RPG-7 grenade launchers...Copy !req
811. and 82 millimeter mortars are coming
into Pakistan by air and sea,Copy !req
812. and then trucks take them
to the Afghan border.Copy !req
813. - Then we
take them across on mules,Copy !req
814. which are running a little more
than we thought.Copy !req
815. The mules?
- They're 2,400 a piece,Copy !req
816. plus we got to get them checked out.
- For what?Copy !req
817. Diseases. Foot and mouth.
Plus they have to have their ears cleaned.Copy !req
818. The mules are getting better health care
than the Afghans.Copy !req
819. - Plus, they're gonna cost
a little extra if we want them pre-trained.Copy !req
820. To do what?
- Walk over a mountain...Copy !req
821. with ammunition on their back.Copy !req
822. Aren't they born with that instinct?Copy !req
823. I mean, isn't that something
they want to do naturally?Copy !req
824. You think Afghanistan might, one day,
think about building some fucking roads?Copy !req
825. Gust.
- Yeah?Copy !req
826. I got something for you.Copy !req
827. I need you to be specific...Copy !req
828. - The whole thing has changed.
Get your diary. I'll show you.Copy !req
829. Okay.Copy !req
830. - No problem. Thank you.Copy !req
831. He should be here any moment.
- Don't worry about me. I'm fine.Copy !req
832. Good morning.
- Good morning, Congressman.Copy !req
833. Welcome back.
- Yeah. Marla.Copy !req
834. Welcome back.
- Suzanne.Copy !req
835. Welcome back.Copy !req
836. Who are you?
- This is Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
837. He's come up from Langley
to bring you the information...Copy !req
838. that you wanted.
- Bonnie.Copy !req
839. Yes, sir?
- I said Assistant Deputy Director or higher.Copy !req
840. I know, sir. I called...
- No, Assistant Deputies don't come...Copy !req
841. to the Hill without a subpoena.Copy !req
842. I'm the guy you want to talk to,
Congressman. I'm on the Afghan desk.Copy !req
843. You're on the Afghan desk?
- Yeah.Copy !req
844. Well, I wouldn't be too proud of that.
I just got back from there.Copy !req
845. Oh, I know. And that's a hell of a flight, too.Copy !req
846. That nine hours flying time
against the jet stream.Copy !req
847. Probably had to stop in Brussels,
plus the time difference.Copy !req
848. I'd be a little grumpy myself.
- I ain't grumpy because of the plane.Copy !req
849. We want to give you this
'cause we know you like single malt.Copy !req
850. It's called Talisker,Copy !req
851. and it's mentioned
in a Robert Louis Stevenson poem,Copy !req
852. The Scotsman's Return from Abroad.Copy !req
853. 'The king o' drinks, as I conceive it,Copy !req
854. 'Talisker, lsla or Glenlivet.'Copy !req
855. Who are you again?
- Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
856. Have Bonnie come into this meeting.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
857. What's the gift for?Copy !req
858. It's from the Afghan desk
for doubling the budget for the mujahideen.Copy !req
859. Oh. Well, thank you.Copy !req
860. It was nothing.Copy !req
861. Well, it's a nice bottle of Scotch.Copy !req
862. Must've been hard to get.
- No, doubling the budget was nothing.Copy !req
863. I mean, $10 million for covert ops
against the Russian Army is meaningless.Copy !req
864. What are you, an infant?
- Now, you hang on just one second.Copy !req
865. I don't remember your name.
- Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
866. Gust Avrakotos.
- Yeah.Copy !req
867. Okay, you mind if I call you Gus?Copy !req
868. Yeah, well, my name's Gust with a 't,'
but I don't care.Copy !req
869. Fifteen hours ago, I offered Harold Holt
the keys to the safe, okay?Copy !req
870. I stood there in the office in lslamabad,
and I said, 'How much do you need?'Copy !req
871. And I was apparently annoying him.Copy !req
872. Well, Harold Holt's a massive tool,
Congressman. He's a cake-eater.Copy !req
873. He's a clown. He's a bad station chief.Copy !req
874. And I don't mean to cast aspersions
on a guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.Copy !req
875. Really?
- Yeah.Copy !req
876. Well, how does he expect to defeat
the Soviets in Afghanistan without...Copy !req
877. He said, 'A sudden influx of money...'
- Yeah, an influx of money...Copy !req
878. and new weaponry would draw attention.Copy !req
879. He's not trying to defeat
the Soviets, Congressman.Copy !req
880. What the hell are you talking about?Copy !req
881. Excuse me.Copy !req
882. I'm the Congressman's aide, Bonnie Bach.Copy !req
883. Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
884. Gus, I need the room for a second.Copy !req
885. Sure.
- Jailbait.Copy !req
886. Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey. Whoa, all right.Copy !req
887. Just tell me what's happening.Copy !req
888. A Justice Department task force
that was formed last year...Copy !req
889. to investigate reports of sex
between members of the House...Copy !req
890. and their male interns
has recently widened...Copy !req
891. to include the use of recreational drugs...Copy !req
892. by senators and congressmen.Copy !req
893. Do you know a man named Paul Brown?Copy !req
894. - He doesn't have
to answer that. Keep going.Copy !req
895. Oh, shit.Copy !req
896. Paul Brown, under investigation
by federal prosecutors for fraud.Copy !req
897. He wanted me to invest
in some TV show for Crystal.Copy !req
898. Well, he's saying he witnessed
you doing cocaine nine times...Copy !req
899. in a fantasy suite in Las Vegas.Copy !req
900. Brian Ross at NBC is breaking the story.Copy !req
901. All right, guys. I was in Las Vegas
with Crystal and Paul Brown,Copy !req
902. because she wanted me to talk to him
about this thing.Copy !req
903. There was cocaine?Copy !req
904. I want you to go in the other room
and start on a statement.Copy !req
905. Let's get Stu on the phone.
- Okay, I'll call him.Copy !req
906. - Okay, Bait, you just need to start...
- It's all right, everybody.Copy !req
907. It's gonna be all right.
I want to get back to...Copy !req
908. Gus.Copy !req
909. You having problems?Copy !req
910. No.Copy !req
911. What do you mean,
he's not trying to defeat the Soviets?Copy !req
912. Well, he wants to bleed them.
Payback for Vietnam.Copy !req
913. Make it so they just have
to keep sending troops in,Copy !req
914. keep sending money,
and troops, and money...Copy !req
915. until they just go out
of their fucking minds...Copy !req
916. the way we did.Copy !req
917. You mean to tell me
that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan...Copy !req
918. is to have the Afghans keep walking
into machine gun fire...Copy !req
919. till the Russians run out of bullets?
- That's Harold Holt's strategy.Copy !req
920. It's not U.S. strategy.
- What is U.S. strategy?Copy !req
921. Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one.
But we're working hard on that.Copy !req
922. Who's we?
- Me and three other guys.Copy !req
923. Would you excuse me?Copy !req
924. All right, what do you have?Copy !req
925. 'Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...Copy !req
926. he is joining several
members of Congress...Copy !req
927. 'who are under investigation
by a Justice Department task force that is...'Copy !req
928. Don't say task force. It makes it sound...Copy !req
929. like Eliot Ness is running the thing.
- Okay.Copy !req
930. Who is running the thing?
Who's the prosecutor?Copy !req
931. Rudolph Giuliani,
New York, Southern District.Copy !req
932. You know him?
- No.Copy !req
933. Well, it's been going on forever.
We should say that, too.Copy !req
934. 'Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...Copy !req
935. he is joining several
members of Congress...Copy !req
936. 'who are under investigation
by the Justice Department...Copy !req
937. 'in what is now an 18-month long,
wide-ranging examination...Copy !req
938. 'that has resulted in no convictions.'Copy !req
939. 'Congressman Wilson
has not been charged...Copy !req
940. with any crime,Copy !req
941. 'nor has he been questioned
by the authorities.Copy !req
942. 'He denies any allegation of illegal
or improper behavior...Copy !req
943. 'and will fully cooperate
with the ongoing investigation.'Copy !req
944. Okay. Run it by Stu.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
945. Gus.Copy !req
946. You and three other guys?
- Yeah.Copy !req
947. Well, I'll tell you what I told Harold Holt.
I can get the money.Copy !req
948. Now, the 10 million is a joke?
Fine. What do you need?Copy !req
949. To do what?
- To shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
950. To shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
951. if we can help them shoot down
the goddamn helicopters,Copy !req
952. everything's gonna start going our way.Copy !req
953. You know, there's a story
about a Zen master and a little boy.Copy !req
954. All right, and... Yeah.Copy !req
955. It's Stu.
- You should be on this.Copy !req
956. Stu?Copy !req
957. No. No, it's gonna be fine.Copy !req
958. It was a party in Vegas.Copy !req
959. Lot of drugs, lot of people I don't know.Copy !req
960. I was there with Crystal Lee
and this guy Paul Brown...Copy !req
961. who wanted me to invest
in a TV show for Crystal.Copy !req
962. I don't know.Copy !req
963. I don't know, it's gonna be
like a Dallas set in Washington.Copy !req
964. What... Stu, what does it matter?Copy !req
965. Okay.Copy !req
966. Will Crystal back up your story
that you weren't using?Copy !req
967. Just go put out the statement.Copy !req
968. You know what?Copy !req
969. You never should have been
in the same room, Congressman.Copy !req
970. Gus.Copy !req
971. Yeah.
- The Swiss make an antiaircraft gun...Copy !req
972. called the Oerlikon.
- Listen, Charlie.Copy !req
973. Twenty-millimeter cannon, high rate of fire.
- I know the Oerlikon.Copy !req
974. Don't forget the limo driver.
- What do you mean?Copy !req
975. Well, you took a limo from the casino
to the airport.Copy !req
976. Maybe it's easy enough to track down
a limo driver, hand him a subpoena,Copy !req
977. ask him if anything was going on
in the back seat,Copy !req
978. so, you know, in terms of cleaning up this...Copy !req
979. Were you listening at the door?Copy !req
980. I wasn't listening at the door.
- Were you standing...Copy !req
981. at the goddamn door listening to me?
- No.Copy !req
982. How could you even... That's a thick door.Copy !req
983. You stood there and you listened to me?Copy !req
984. I wasn't standing at the door.
Don't be an idiot.Copy !req
985. I bugged the Scotch bottle.
- What?Copy !req
986. Yeah, it's got a little transmitter on it.
I got a little thing in my ear. Get past it.Copy !req
987. I don't believe this. Who the fuck...
Who the fuck are you?Copy !req
988. It's not in my ear right now. Take it easy.Copy !req
989. I was gonna tell you about it,
but I had to leave the room for a second...Copy !req
990. 'cause you were getting indicted.
- I ain't getting indicted.Copy !req
991. ls there a camera in here?
- No, that's a little paranoid.Copy !req
992. That's right.Copy !req
993. Will you take the bug
off my Scotch bottle now?Copy !req
994. Sure.Copy !req
995. I saw two kids, had their hands blown off...Copy !req
996. when they tried to
pick up something shiny.Copy !req
997. Sometimes the kids think
those bombs are toys.Copy !req
998. For children to pick up.
- Yeah.Copy !req
999. They're raping the women and...
- Yeah.Copy !req
1000. bayoneting the pregnant ones.
- It's as bad as it can be.Copy !req
1001. But they still want to go out
and fight the Red Army.Copy !req
1002. Each and every one of them.
I've never seen anything like that.Copy !req
1003. No, me, neither.Copy !req
1004. Let's be clear.
I want to kill Russians as much as you do.Copy !req
1005. ls the Oerlikon the right gun?
Is that what they should have?Copy !req
1006. Now, you know what?Copy !req
1007. You've had a long flight.Copy !req
1008. You're under a lot of stress.
You're under arrest.Copy !req
1009. I ain't under arrest.Copy !req
1010. Do you drink?
- Oh, God, yeah.Copy !req
1011. Well, should we try this Scotch,Copy !req
1012. or is it gonna release sarin gas
when I open it?Copy !req
1013. Oh, I don't think so, but open it over there.Copy !req
1014. How'd a guy like you get into the Agency?Copy !req
1015. What, you mean a street guy?
- You ain't James Bond.Copy !req
1016. And you ain't Thomas Jefferson,
so let's call it even.Copy !req
1017. Deal.Copy !req
1018. Since there's no other reason
I should be here,Copy !req
1019. let's assume it's 'cause
I'm very good at this.Copy !req
1020. They need to shoot down
the helicopters, Gus.Copy !req
1021. They need at least, what, 50 Oerlikons.Copy !req
1022. Yeah, it's gonna cost a lot more
than $10 million.Copy !req
1023. And I say for the fourth time,
I can raise the money.Copy !req
1024. Yeah, how?Copy !req
1025. ls the Oerlikon the gun
I should be recommending?Copy !req
1026. I'm not sure.Copy !req
1027. Who is sure?
- A weapons guy named Mike Vickers.Copy !req
1028. I'll call him.
- Yeah. Let's call him right now.Copy !req
1029. All right, here's a test.Copy !req
1030. You see the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt...Copy !req
1031. playing against the four guys at once?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1032. Which one of the guys do you think
is a strategic weapons expert with the ClA?Copy !req
1033. That was a trick question, Charlie.
It's the nerdy-looking kid in the white shirt.Copy !req
1034. All right, no reason this can't be fun,
you know.Copy !req
1035. Mike.
- Yeah, just a second.Copy !req
1036. Need you now, Mike.Copy !req
1037. Keep playing.Copy !req
1038. Mike Vickers,
this is Congressman Charles Wilson...Copy !req
1039. of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee.Copy !req
1040. How are you, sir?
- Fine, thank you.Copy !req
1041. How old are you?
- I'll be 30 next week.Copy !req
1042. This is the ClA's weapons expert?Copy !req
1043. One of them.
- But he's the most senior.Copy !req
1044. - Look...
- Mike.Copy !req
1045. Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.Copy !req
1046. See? He's playing
without even looking at the board.Copy !req
1047. That's a useful skill...Copy !req
1048. if Afghanistan's ever invaded
by Boris Spassky.Copy !req
1049. Did my office not make it clear to Langley
that I'm in no mood...Copy !req
1050. to be fucked around with?
- Charlie...Copy !req
1051. You answer to me or you answer
to Jim Baker. Which do you want?Copy !req
1052. All right, the guy's a fucking Green Beret,
Charlie. He trained with the SEALs.Copy !req
1053. No one's trying to fuck with you.
- Mike?Copy !req
1054. Yeah, what was your move?
- Knight to queen's bishop 5.Copy !req
1055. All right, queen to king's rook 3.Copy !req
1056. Guy on the right,
you don't want to trade queens with me.Copy !req
1057. Shit.Copy !req
1058. All right, I apologize.Copy !req
1059. Okay.
- Everybody friends?Copy !req
1060. As a former naval officer myself, Mike,
I should've known better.Copy !req
1061. As a former naval officer,
I'd have been surprised if you had.Copy !req
1062. Now, what the fuck?
- Hey.Copy !req
1063. He said he was sorry.
- Hey.Copy !req
1064. What can I do for you, sir?Copy !req
1065. All right, he wants to make
a recommendation to his Subcommittee.Copy !req
1066. Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon S.T.A.
antiaircraft cannon, that's what you'd use...Copy !req
1067. to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind gunship
in the mountains, right?Copy !req
1068. Well, the Oerlikon's a good start,Copy !req
1069. but the Russians will just start flying
higher altitude missions.Copy !req
1070. So what else do they need?Copy !req
1071. Same thing you give us.
AK-47s, AK-74s, AKMS.Copy !req
1072. The Soviets didn't come into Afghanistan
on a Eurail Pass.Copy !req
1073. They came in T-55 tanks.Copy !req
1074. The fighters need
RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launchers,Copy !req
1075. Katyusha 107mm rockets, wire mines,
plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles,Copy !req
1076. ammunition for all the above...Copy !req
1077. and frequency-hopping radios
and burst transmitters...Copy !req
1078. so these guys aren't
so fucking easy to find.Copy !req
1079. Well, I've written it all in a report
you can read.Copy !req
1080. You'd be the first one who did.Copy !req
1081. Send a copy of it to me
by secure courier right away.Copy !req
1082. I will. All right.
- All right.Copy !req
1083. There was a report?
- It's not that simple.Copy !req
1084. Why not?
- Well, for one thing it's covert.Copy !req
1085. When an Afghan freedom fighter
gets captured,Copy !req
1086. it can't be with
an American-made weapon on him.Copy !req
1087. That's how a cold war turns
into an actual war,Copy !req
1088. and that's something
you want to keep a good eye on.Copy !req
1089. So anything we give them has to look like...Copy !req
1090. it could have plausibly been captured
from the Soviets.Copy !req
1091. Yeah, that's right.
- You know who's good at that?Copy !req
1092. lsrael and Egypt.
- That's right.Copy !req
1093. You know what Vickers
just described back there...Copy !req
1094. could cost as much as $40 million.Copy !req
1095. I can get the appropriation.
- But how?Copy !req
1096. I want to know how are you gonna get
the approval of Congress...Copy !req
1097. when they're saying no to the Contras
for nothing,Copy !req
1098. for $5 million,
a request made by the President?Copy !req
1099. When a black approp makes it
through this Subcommittee,Copy !req
1100. the full body has to vote on it blind.Copy !req
1101. They know the dollar amount,
but they don't know what it's for.Copy !req
1102. So, theoretically, your $10 million
can become 40 million...Copy !req
1103. without anyone ever noticing
but the Russian Army.Copy !req
1104. Because Congress wouldn't know
what it was voting on.Copy !req
1105. That's the beauty of it.Copy !req
1106. All you need are the nine other
Subcommittee members.Copy !req
1107. All I really need is the Committee Chairman.Copy !req
1108. Doc Long.
- Doc Long.Copy !req
1109. And with Doc's backing, you'll get the votes
of the other Committee members.Copy !req
1110. Yep.
- I don't believe you.Copy !req
1111. I don't care.Copy !req
1112. And until the phone rang this morning,Copy !req
1113. Charlie, I didn't know
I'd never heard of you.Copy !req
1114. Well, ask around.Copy !req
1115. I did.
- And what'd you find out?Copy !req
1116. That your greatest
legislative achievement...Copy !req
1117. in six terms was getting
reelected five times.Copy !req
1118. Anything else?Copy !req
1119. That you hold more lOUs
than any member of the House.Copy !req
1120. How about that?Copy !req
1121. I represent the only district in America
that doesn't want anything.Copy !req
1122. They want their guns,
they want low taxes, that's it.Copy !req
1123. I can do favors. I get to vote yes a lot.Copy !req
1124. Now, me and three other guys
are killing Russians.Copy !req
1125. I mean, is it possible...Copy !req
1126. that I've met the only
elected official in town...Copy !req
1127. who can help?Copy !req
1128. Give me a week to set things up.Copy !req
1129. Go pack a bag.
I have a friend, an arms dealer in lsrael.Copy !req
1130. He's who we need for this, God help us.Copy !req
1131. Should be interesting.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1132. All right.Copy !req
1133. - We need you, Zvi.Copy !req
1134. You're gonna be our man
inside the lsraeli Parliament.Copy !req
1135. - I'm not in the lsraeli Parliament.Copy !req
1136. That's what's gonna make you so effective.Copy !req
1137. No one has your pull
with the 10th Knesset.Copy !req
1138. No one has your relationship
with the Speaker.Copy !req
1139. And we are gonna... We're gonna need
your arm around Menachem,Copy !req
1140. when he finds out that we're working
with Egypt and the Saudis.Copy !req
1141. Tell him. Tell him why we need him.Copy !req
1142. - I'm not saying anything.
- Why not?Copy !req
1143. I don't know
who the fuck these two other guys are.Copy !req
1144. Well, ain't they bodyguards?
- Not ours.Copy !req
1145. Zvi?Copy !req
1146. Now, just to sum this up in a nutshell.Copy !req
1147. You want me to move lsrael...Copy !req
1148. toward a partnership
with Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan.Copy !req
1149. And Saudi Arabia.Copy !req
1150. Well, just a couple of
problems I can foresee...Copy !req
1151. off the top of my head.Copy !req
1152. Look.Copy !req
1153. Charlie...
- I know.Copy !req
1154. Pakistan and Afghanistan don't recognize
our right to exist.Copy !req
1155. Calm down.Copy !req
1156. We just got done fighting
a war with Egypt...Copy !req
1157. and every person who has ever tried
to kill me and my family,Copy !req
1158. has been trained in Saudi Arabia.Copy !req
1159. That's not entirely true, Zvi.Copy !req
1160. I mean, some of them were trained by us.Copy !req
1161. - Gus, come on.Copy !req
1162. It's his sense of humor.
It's a bit of an acquired taste.Copy !req
1163. Now, Zvi, look at me.Copy !req
1164. This is the front of the Cold War.Copy !req
1165. It's not in Berlin, it's not in Cuba,
it's not in Czechoslovakia.Copy !req
1166. It's in a pile of rocks called Afghanistan.Copy !req
1167. These are the only people
who are actually shooting at the Russians.Copy !req
1168. Now, you and I know
we have to get Soviet-made weapons...Copy !req
1169. into the hands of the mujahideen.Copy !req
1170. And you and I know
where the largest stockpile...Copy !req
1171. of Soviet weapons
outside the Soviet Union is.Copy !req
1172. I can't tell you offhand how many...Copy !req
1173. and what kind of weapons
we've confiscated.Copy !req
1174. I can. These are Keyhole-11
satellite photos.Copy !req
1175. They've been degraded
so I can show them to you.Copy !req
1176. All right, that's a five-wheeled chassis tank.
That's not the Mk.1, that's the T-55.Copy !req
1177. And it and four others are
about 12 miles from here.Copy !req
1178. What do you want tanks in mountains for?Copy !req
1179. Oh, we don't. I just wanted you to know
I know you got them.Copy !req
1180. $35.5 million.
- Which you'll be able to appropriate.Copy !req
1181. Yeah.Copy !req
1182. Without the press asking
questions about it.Copy !req
1183. You know, there's good news there,Copy !req
1184. because the press is going to be busy
asking about a weekend in Vegas...Copy !req
1185. and his pending arrest on charges
of narcotics possession.Copy !req
1186. Oh, Gus.
- Shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1187. It's nothing.
- Is this true?Copy !req
1188. No, for our purposes,
it doesn't really matter.Copy !req
1189. Thank you.
- I was just explaining to him...Copy !req
1190. that as long as the press sees
sex and drugs behind the left hand,Copy !req
1191. you can park a battle carrier
behind the right hand...Copy !req
1192. and no one's gonna fucking notice.Copy !req
1193. What the hell happened?Copy !req
1194. It's not germane.
It's not germane to these people...Copy !req
1195. who are fighting and dying,
and being massacred in their homes.Copy !req
1196. Now, for the love of Christ,
will you help us help them...Copy !req
1197. shoot down these fucking helicopters?Copy !req
1198. I love you, Charlie,Copy !req
1199. but you are a grown man...Copy !req
1200. who still hasn't learned to look both ways
before he crosses the fucking street.Copy !req
1201. Yes, I'm in.Copy !req
1202. But I don't like this guy.
- I know how you feel.Copy !req
1203. What happens now?
- You come with us to Cairo.Copy !req
1204. This meeting's gonna be run professional?
- Oh, absolutely.Copy !req
1205. We'll be talking
to the Deputy Defense Minister...Copy !req
1206. while his boss gets a belly dance
from a friend of Charlie's.Copy !req
1207. What?
- A good friend of mine back in Texas...Copy !req
1208. is a well-known belly dancer.Copy !req
1209. It's always been her dream to perform
in Egypt, so she's our way in.Copy !req
1210. While she's dancing for
the Defense Minister,Copy !req
1211. we'll be talking to the Deputy.Copy !req
1212. Oh, my God.
- No, she's supposed to be good.Copy !req
1213. That's an extraordinary woman.
- Oh, yeah.Copy !req
1214. That's not any belly dance I'm familiar with.Copy !req
1215. That's why I wanted the Defense Minister
to see her.Copy !req
1216. This is your girlfriend?
- Carol's a friend. She's an old friend.Copy !req
1217. I understand her father didn't allow dancing
because of the religion?Copy !req
1218. Yeah, that's correct.Copy !req
1219. And what religion is that?
- You know, she's a Baptist.Copy !req
1220. As I was saying, the Russians will learn,
I'm quite afraid the hard way,Copy !req
1221. to fear God's vengeance upon those...Copy !req
1222. who oppress his humble servants
who submit to him in lslam.Copy !req
1223. Their skulls will hang from the treetops.Copy !req
1224. You can do whatever you like
with their skulls, I suppose.Copy !req
1225. What has Gus here concerned is
a SA surface-to-air missiles you all have.Copy !req
1226. For some reason,
he thinks they were stored poorly.Copy !req
1227. No, no, no, the SA-7s were stored properly.Copy !req
1228. Excuse me.
What about the oppression of my people?Copy !req
1229. Oh, Zvi.
- I beg your pardon?Copy !req
1230. Fellows, we have to do this now.Copy !req
1231. I am about to arrange
for $35 million worth of guns...Copy !req
1232. to be put into the hands of Muslims.Copy !req
1233. I meant no disrespect.
- Oh, really?Copy !req
1234. Well, anyway, that...
None of this is important.Copy !req
1235. You have Soviet-licensed factories
that can put out Kalashnikovs...Copy !req
1236. at a rate of 25,000 a week?Copy !req
1237. That's correct.
- What about city warfare devices?Copy !req
1238. What kind?
- Bicycle bombs, limpet mines,Copy !req
1239. plastic, tripwire mines?Copy !req
1240. Yes, yes. Whatever you need.Copy !req
1241. We can't improve the price now,Copy !req
1242. but when we come back for more,
we'll make it up to you.Copy !req
1243. I agree.Copy !req
1244. All right.Copy !req
1245. Hey, you did good back there
ignoring the religious shit.Copy !req
1246. 'Cause these people
are totally fucking unspooled,Copy !req
1247. and I'm not just talking about the Muslims.Copy !req
1248. Zvi's all right.
- Oh, I know he is.Copy !req
1249. He is Mossad, by the way.Copy !req
1250. What I'm talking about
is your friend in Houston.Copy !req
1251. Now, she's got to stop throwing fundraisers
and she's got to stop doing press.Copy !req
1252. Joanne is raising awareness.Copy !req
1253. She's using a non-secular vocabulary...Copy !req
1254. and framing this as a religious war.Copy !req
1255. And America doesn't fight religious wars.Copy !req
1256. Is that right?
- Yeah, that's why I like living there.Copy !req
1257. Good morning,
Iadies and gentlemen. This is your captain.Copy !req
1258. We will begin our initial descent...Copy !req
1259. into Washington Dulles Airport.
- I got to go down to Houston, so...Copy !req
1260. I would like to thank you and hope...Copy !req
1261. Well, talk to her.
- Yeah, I'll talk to her.Copy !req
1262. You want me to go into business
with the lsraelis?Copy !req
1263. Just for this one purpose, yes,
Mr. President.Copy !req
1264. The lsraelis have the largest stockpile
of Soviet-made weapons in friendly hands.Copy !req
1265. I know that.Copy !req
1266. I need to trust
that this arrangement will remain secret.Copy !req
1267. Pakistan and lsrael would have to appear
to be enemies in the public eye.Copy !req
1268. Yeah, I don't think that's a tough sell.Copy !req
1269. You have authority to do this?Copy !req
1270. None whatsoever. In fact, I'm pretty close
to violating the Logan Act.Copy !req
1271. Well, I don't know what that is.Copy !req
1272. But, Charlie.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1273. if I see one fucking Star of David
on a crate...Copy !req
1274. You won't. I promise.Copy !req
1275. Hey.
- Excuse me.Copy !req
1276. You want me to take a look
at those remarks?Copy !req
1277. Why?
- Just... Well, your introduction,Copy !req
1278. want me to look it over?
- It's an introduction, Charlie. I'll be fine.Copy !req
1279. Today we honor President Zia ul-Haq
of Pakistan.Copy !req
1280. Before we go any further,
I would like you all to know this,Copy !req
1281. President Zia did not kill Bhutto.Copy !req
1282. In the time that he's been President,Copy !req
1283. the fortunes of Pakistan
have changed radically.Copy !req
1284. I've asked you all here today...Copy !req
1285. You disappeared.
- Well, they weren't selling alcohol in there.Copy !req
1286. It's a traditional Pakistani gathering.Copy !req
1287. You think they might be
a lot happier over there...Copy !req
1288. if they could just get women and booze
in the same room at the same time?Copy !req
1289. I think they'd be a whole lot happier
over there...Copy !req
1290. if the Communists got out.Copy !req
1291. 'Zia did not kill Bhutto.'Copy !req
1292. That's not something you usually hear
in introductory remarks.Copy !req
1293. He didn't, Charlie.
Bhutto had a trial and was found guilty.Copy !req
1294. Shocking verdict.Copy !req
1295. What did you need to talk to me about?Copy !req
1296. Joanne, darling, dial down the religion.Copy !req
1297. What?
- It could alienate people...Copy !req
1298. whose support we need.Copy !req
1299. It's luncheons like this
that are raising the money we need.Copy !req
1300. This thing is not gonna get done
by ballrooms full of people...Copy !req
1301. in the Houstonian Hotel.Copy !req
1302. It's gonna get done by the ClA,
lsrael, Egypt and Pakistan,Copy !req
1303. and it's gonna get done quietly.Copy !req
1304. Now, you start making people think...Copy !req
1305. we're trying to convert everybody
to Christianity.Copy !req
1306. I was saved by Jesus Christ, Charlie,
and I am not ashamed of it.Copy !req
1307. My fervor is not about religion,
it's about freedom of religion,Copy !req
1308. which we have, they want,Copy !req
1309. and the Communists
are slaughtering them for.Copy !req
1310. And I get it. Just tamp down the fervor.Copy !req
1311. Well, I can't modulate God's will, sweetie.Copy !req
1312. You can try.Copy !req
1313. Now, I got to get back to D.C.
They've set up a briefing for me at Langley.Copy !req
1314. On what?
- On getting the guns.Copy !req
1315. Afghanistan's barely a country.Copy !req
1316. There's no phones or roads
outside the cities.Copy !req
1317. It's likely that a villager would live his life...Copy !req
1318. without having contact
with another village...Copy !req
1319. just three miles down the road...Copy !req
1320. unless he was going to war against them.Copy !req
1321. Now, my thinking is
instead of 400,000 sloppy guys,Copy !req
1322. we concentrate on several elite forces
totaling about 150,000.Copy !req
1323. Give these guys real training,Copy !req
1324. 20 different courses
covering irregular warfare disciplines.Copy !req
1325. And do you have anybody in mind?Copy !req
1326. The most successful rebels today
are in the Panjshir Valley.Copy !req
1327. They're called the United Front
of the Council of the North.Copy !req
1328. We've earmarked them
for 10 million in weapons...Copy !req
1329. and 10 to 15 agency
advisors for training.Copy !req
1330. Who's their leader?
- Ahmed Shah Massoud.Copy !req
1331. He's Tajik,
so he's not well liked by the Pashtun.Copy !req
1332. So the... What, the Tajiks
have a problem with the Pashtuns?Copy !req
1333. Well, they say when a Tajik wants
to make love to a woman,Copy !req
1334. his first choice is always a Pashtun man.Copy !req
1335. It's funnier in the original Pashto.Copy !req
1336. All right, I've heard enough.
I'm going to go get our money.Copy !req
1337. All right, don't fuck us up now.Copy !req
1338. Awesome pep talk.Copy !req
1339. Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia,Copy !req
1340. these are all totalitarian dictatorships.Copy !req
1341. And they'd like to blow the only democracy
in the region right into the Mediterranean.Copy !req
1342. Now, you heard me say
that lsrael's gonna be on board.Copy !req
1343. Oh, well, Zvi Rafiah's out of his mind.Copy !req
1344. These people are draconian thugs,
and in an evil and twisted derby...Copy !req
1345. between the Communists
and the Fundamentalists,Copy !req
1346. it's 6-to-5 and pick them,
as far as I'm concerned.Copy !req
1347. No, you're wrong about that, Doc,
and you know you don't mean it.Copy !req
1348. In Pakistan, a blind girl gets raped,
but there's a witness.Copy !req
1349. Now, in Pakistan it takes four witnesses.Copy !req
1350. So the rapist walks away
and the girl is in prison.Copy !req
1351. Can you tell me why?Copy !req
1352. Well, fornication.
- That's right.Copy !req
1353. Mr. Chairman, President Zia is the only one
willing to shoulder the risk...Copy !req
1354. of actively training
and funding the mujahideen...Copy !req
1355. while Egypt and Saudi Arabia...Copy !req
1356. Now, the Saudis are matching any funding
from Congress?Copy !req
1357. That's right.
- So when you say 40 million to me,Copy !req
1358. you're really talking about 80 million.Copy !req
1359. Only 40 from us.Copy !req
1360. You want to put $80 million
in the hands of these people?Copy !req
1361. No, see, Doc, now, if you
took a trip with me...Copy !req
1362. to the border,Copy !req
1363. you'd stop calling them 'these people.'Copy !req
1364. They are farmers and children mostly,
and they are fighting our enemies for us.Copy !req
1365. I know.Copy !req
1366. And that should be impossible for America.Copy !req
1367. I know.
- It should be impossible for America...Copy !req
1368. to sit on the bench while little kids
and their mothers fight our enemies.Copy !req
1369. Now, all you have to do to change that
is to support me...Copy !req
1370. in the Committee, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1371. I'm sorry, Charlie, but doubling
from 5 to 10 million is one thing,Copy !req
1372. but, you know, I just can't get behind this.Copy !req
1373. Joanne Herring's residence.
Who's speaking?Copy !req
1374. Miss Herring, Congressman Wilson for you.Copy !req
1375. Hello.
- Hey.Copy !req
1376. Tell me what's happening.Copy !req
1377. Well, I need Doc Long,
and he's not getting on board.Copy !req
1378. Now, he's a church-going guy, so I thought,Copy !req
1379. you know, maybe you could...
- So now you need God.Copy !req
1380. Yeah. Let me give you his private line.Copy !req
1381. I've got it.Copy !req
1382. Trish.
- Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1383. Boss?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1384. Hey, that's a nice sweater.
- Oh, thank you.Copy !req
1385. The Washington Times wants to know
if you've ever been in rehab.Copy !req
1386. Well, what are you gonna tell them?
- That you won't go to rehab...Copy !req
1387. 'cause they don't serve whiskey there.Copy !req
1388. Well, that's why you're
the press secretary, boo-boo.Copy !req
1389. I've got Stu on the line. Can you jump on?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1390. Hey, Stu, it's me.Copy !req
1391. All right.Copy !req
1392. No, she's not a stripper, Stu.
She just posed for the cover...Copy !req
1393. Oh, what the hell difference does it make?
They're talking to Crystal today.Copy !req
1394. Yeah.Copy !req
1395. Giuliani subpoenaed the limo driver.Copy !req
1396. Oh, that's what Gus said he'd do.Copy !req
1397. Well, the limo driver said
he didn't see anything.Copy !req
1398. He didn't see anything.Copy !req
1399. So Giuliani subpoenaed every limo driver...Copy !req
1400. between Arlington and
Silver Spring to see...Copy !req
1401. if any of them can
recall you using cocaine.Copy !req
1402. Joanne Herring's on the phone.
- Hey, you.Copy !req
1403. We're all leaving in the morning.Copy !req
1404. You're kidding?
- No.Copy !req
1405. Well, what did you have to promise him?Copy !req
1406. There's a blind girl in jail
'cause she was raped.Copy !req
1407. Yeah.
- You're gonna get her out.Copy !req
1408. What, I got to bust somebody out of jail?Copy !req
1409. Don't be stupid, Charlie.
You're gonna tell Zia to pardon her.Copy !req
1410. That's Doc's condition.Copy !req
1411. I'll fly in tonight. Buy me a drink?
- Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1412. We're almost there, Charlie.Copy !req
1413. I'm going back to Pakistan tomorrow.
- Let's party.Copy !req
1414. Charlie.
- Oh, that was... I'm gonna...Copy !req
1415. You want a refill here, darling?
- Thanks.Copy !req
1416. Can we get another round?Copy !req
1417. Mario.Copy !req
1418. Oh, Charlie.Copy !req
1419. Hey, Joanne.Copy !req
1420. Can I call you Joanne?
- Yes.Copy !req
1421. You'll want to dress
considerably more modestly...Copy !req
1422. when we're at the border.Copy !req
1423. Well, thank you,
but I have been passionately involved...Copy !req
1424. with the cause of the Afghans
for three years.Copy !req
1425. I've been there many times.Copy !req
1426. Okay, well, then I'll just go fuck myself.Copy !req
1427. I am not easily shocked, Mr. Avrakotos.Copy !req
1428. I knew you two were gonna hit it off
right away.Copy !req
1429. Charlie.Copy !req
1430. Sorry, Stu's on the phone.
You can take it at the bar.Copy !req
1431. Stu. This can't be good.Copy !req
1432. How'd you hook up with Charlie?Copy !req
1433. Are you also passionately involved
with the cause of the Afghans?Copy !req
1434. No, I just wasn't really doing anything else.Copy !req
1435. I mean, how did you get into the ClA?Copy !req
1436. Oh, I didn't.
I'm with the Department of Agriculture.Copy !req
1437. Food and Plant Division.
- Specifically apple imports.Copy !req
1438. Now, you don't seem like the apple type.
- I know.Copy !req
1439. What's that mean?Copy !req
1440. Where are you from?
- What do you care?Copy !req
1441. Are you a Catholic?
- Greek Orthodox, Mrs. Herring.Copy !req
1442. That's still Christian.
- lmagine my relief.Copy !req
1443. What's your problem with me?Copy !req
1444. You know, I've found, in my business,Copy !req
1445. that when people with time on their hands
get involved in politics,Copy !req
1446. I start forgetting
what I'm supposed to be shooting at.Copy !req
1447. That would be in the
apple import business.Copy !req
1448. Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1449. I'll have to remember that.
- Please do.Copy !req
1450. It's over.Copy !req
1451. It's over. It is over.Copy !req
1452. That was Stu, and it is over.
- Wait, wait, wait. Crystal didn't name you?Copy !req
1453. Well, she witnessed me doing coke...Copy !req
1454. in the Cayman lslands.
- Oh, shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1455. No, it's all right. That's out
of the Justice Department's jurisdiction,Copy !req
1456. so it is over.Copy !req
1457. I'm going home.Copy !req
1458. Gus, Joanne, the most important trip
of our lives is in the morning,Copy !req
1459. so let's get plenty of sleep. I'm going home.Copy !req
1460. Jailbait, slap my hands.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1461. Mario, this is all on me.Copy !req
1462. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1463. He may be in trouble with the press,
but he stayed out of jail.Copy !req
1464. You don't see God's hand in this?Copy !req
1465. Well, reasonable people can disagree,Copy !req
1466. but I don't see God anywhere
within miles of this.Copy !req
1467. On the other hand,
if you slept with me tonight,Copy !req
1468. I bet you I could change
my mind in a hurry.Copy !req
1469. Oh, you would.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1470. I'll see you on the plane.Copy !req
1471. Sluts.Copy !req
1472. Doc's eating this up.
- Yeah?Copy !req
1473. We're gonna get the money.
- Charlie?Copy !req
1474. Charlie.Copy !req
1475. Guy's a little senile.
- Don't be fooled.Copy !req
1476. He chairs a Subcommittee?Copy !req
1477. Charlie, Joanne, this has been
an absolutely eye-opening experience.Copy !req
1478. I mean, it's absolutely stunning.Copy !req
1479. Tell them what we saw, Mr. Papadropolous.
Tell them.Copy !req
1480. They only want to go back there and fight.
- And you're their savior, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1481. Oh, I wouldn't go that far, no.
- Watch this.Copy !req
1482. She's gonna lock it right on up.
- Mr. Chairman,Copy !req
1483. these people have been waiting for you.
They have been sitting here...Copy !req
1484. and bleeding and waiting
and praying for you.Copy !req
1485. It's only gonna be a man like you
who can save them.Copy !req
1486. We know, don't we, about our men,Copy !req
1487. what they can do
when they summon themselves.Copy !req
1488. Charlie, I think they want you
to make some remarks.Copy !req
1489. No, you should do it, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1490. These people have been waiting
a long time for you.Copy !req
1491. Show Muriel what you can do.
Show your wife.Copy !req
1492. I'm a little bit emotional
about what I've seen here today.Copy !req
1493. Show her.Copy !req
1494. You can do it.Copy !req
1495. Go on.Copy !req
1496. All right.Copy !req
1497. Papadropolous.
- Well, it's Greek. It's in the ballpark.Copy !req
1498. My friends,Copy !req
1499. my son served in Vietnam.Copy !req
1500. He was wounded fighting in battle
against the Soviet oppressors.Copy !req
1501. I didn't know that about his son.Copy !req
1502. So, you see, I'm no stranger,Copy !req
1503. no stranger at all to the horrors
and atrocities of the Communists.Copy !req
1504. Thank you so much.Copy !req
1505. I talk about God for one simple reason.Copy !req
1506. As God is my witness today...
- We need him on our side.Copy !req
1507. these Russian gunships,
every last one of them,Copy !req
1508. are gonna be blown right out of the sky.Copy !req
1509. We're gonna see that you have guns
and we're gonna see that you have training.Copy !req
1510. Thank you.Copy !req
1511. Well, what I think's got Gus worried...Copy !req
1512. is that sooner or later
God is gonna be on both sides.Copy !req
1513. This is good against evil.Copy !req
1514. And I want you to know
that America's always going to be...Copy !req
1515. on the side of the good.Copy !req
1516. And God will always punish the wicked.Copy !req
1517. God is great.Copy !req
1518. This has been
a year of setback and frustration.Copy !req
1519. And the Soviet Army,
more than at any time since the war began,Copy !req
1520. now has the upper hand.Copy !req
1521. The mujahideen are pinned down.Copy !req
1522. The Afghan resistance has been sanctified
by the United States,Copy !req
1523. but the support has not been translated
into military hardware.Copy !req
1524. The guerrillas still cling to the Kalashnikov,
but it's not enough.Copy !req
1525. They're waiting in vain
for bigger modern weapons...Copy !req
1526. to turn on the Red Army.Copy !req
1527. The guerrillas survived the raid.Copy !req
1528. The Soviets now are conducting
some of the heaviest bombing of the war.Copy !req
1529. The Soviets have put more troops
and equipment back in.Copy !req
1530. Communist bastards.Copy !req
1531. Don't send us rice and bandages,Copy !req
1532. give us weapons
so that we can shoot down their gunships.Copy !req
1533. It's called the MlLAN anti-tank missile.Copy !req
1534. Can the Afghans win without it?
- No.Copy !req
1535. End of discussion.Copy !req
1536. I would like to have
the previously approved sum increased...Copy !req
1537. by an additional 30 million,Copy !req
1538. bringing the total appropriation
to 70 million.Copy !req
1539. I'd like to introduce
the MlLAN anti-tank missile.Copy !req
1540. We've got 300 in the field.Copy !req
1541. Yeah.
- Yep.Copy !req
1542. Let's kill some Russians.Copy !req
1543. Voting to pump up the money
for the freedom fighters is the only way...Copy !req
1544. for the northeastern liberal
to prove that he's serious.Copy !req
1545. How much are you asking for?Copy !req
1546. I'd want to go from 70
million to 100 million.Copy !req
1547. And if you vote for me, I can deliver
the Black Caucus for the farm subsidy.Copy !req
1548. And they asked him,
quite reasonably enough,Copy !req
1549. 'How did you vote on that?'Copy !req
1550. And I swear to God,
he looks over at his staff guy.Copy !req
1551. He had to check with an aide
for an answer to that question.Copy !req
1552. I don't know how that guy stays in office.Copy !req
1553. It was the Bamian-led group.
They set an ambush here...Copy !req
1554. at the Fuladi Bridge.
- What'd they get?Copy !req
1555. Four supply trucks coming out
of Bagram Airbase.Copy !req
1556. They hit a Soviet motorized rifle battalion
on horseback?Copy !req
1557. You bet your ass.
- Then these guys are pretty good.Copy !req
1558. We can't control this thing anymore.Copy !req
1559. The man stood in my office in lslamabad,
and I told him, 'A sudden influx of money...Copy !req
1560. 'and weaponry...'
- Could you hand me that belt, please?Copy !req
1561. Thank you.
- I mean, how is it possible...Copy !req
1562. that this congressman
of no particular importance...Copy !req
1563. is doing this by himself?Copy !req
1564. I will admit it's not unimpressive.Copy !req
1565. Is this the war
we want to be fighting, Henry? Huh?Copy !req
1566. Harold, whatever he's doing,
believe me, it's working.Copy !req
1567. The ClA estimates that seven...Copy !req
1568. out of every 10 times
the muj fires a Stinger,Copy !req
1569. a Soviet chopper or a plane
falls out of the sky.Copy !req
1570. Now, Russian MiGs go for $20 million,
Stingers go for 60-70,000.Copy !req
1571. What do you want to do?Copy !req
1572. Well, I'd like to double to 250 million.Copy !req
1573. Remind me again,
where did this thing start?Copy !req
1574. 5 million.Copy !req
1575. Hello?Copy !req
1576. Is this
Mrs. Joanne King Herring Davis?Copy !req
1577. Where's it at, Charlie?Copy !req
1578. How's the honeymoon?Copy !req
1579. Am I ever gonna see you naked again?Copy !req
1580. Where's it at, Charlie?Copy !req
1581. 500 million. Matched by the Saudis.Copy !req
1582. One billion dollars.Copy !req
1583. That's right. Billion with a 'b.'Copy !req
1584. Where does this rank relative
to other covert wars?Copy !req
1585. There's never been anything else like it.Copy !req
1586. Since when?Copy !req
1587. Ever.Copy !req
1588. I miss you, Charlie.Copy !req
1589. l, Joanne,Copy !req
1590. I always miss you.Copy !req
1591. I better go.Copy !req
1592. There's nothing wrong with that.Copy !req
1593. And out in Polk, there's the polecat
who took us over the side there.Copy !req
1594. You know, that's the truth.
What do you got?Copy !req
1595. Is that Gus? You got it.Copy !req
1596. Hey, Gus.Copy !req
1597. Congratulations on your reelection.
- Yeah, thank you.Copy !req
1598. Tell me what you know.
- All right. Doc Long is gonna lose.Copy !req
1599. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw that coming.Copy !req
1600. Yeah, so who's gonna be our wallet now?Copy !req
1601. John Murtha.
- And is that good news?Copy !req
1602. Yep.
- Why?Copy !req
1603. I was his vote on the Ethics Committee.Copy !req
1604. You know, you're a very,
very easy man to like, Congressman.Copy !req
1605. Call me tomorrow morning at high noon.Copy !req
1606. I will. Bye-bye.Copy !req
1607. We present you with this Stinger tube.Copy !req
1608. There was wild jubilation
inside the country of Afghanistan...Copy !req
1609. as last weekend it
became the first country...Copy !req
1610. in history to defeat
the mighty Soviet Union.Copy !req
1611. The retreat of Soviet military power
from Afghanistan is complete.Copy !req
1612. The last of Russia's regular army
invasion force is out.Copy !req
1613. Fear and uncertainty were mixed
with joy today...Copy !req
1614. as the commander of Soviet troops...Copy !req
1615. followed the last of his men
across the border.Copy !req
1616. CBS News Moscow correspondent,
Barry Petersen, begins our coverage.Copy !req
1617. It was the last hurrah.
The final Soviet combat troops...Copy !req
1618. crossing the Friendship Bridge
on the border...Copy !req
1619. between Afghanistan
and the Soviet Union.Copy !req
1620. The Soviet commander, Lieutenant...Copy !req
1621. Look what you did, Charlie.Copy !req
1622. Hey, it's... Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.Copy !req
1623. It's traditional to make a gesture
towards the vanquished.Copy !req
1624. Gus, it's your honor.
- Okay.Copy !req
1625. Reports that some Afghan units have...Copy !req
1626. Well, here's to you, you motherfuckers.Copy !req
1627. determined to show the world that
the era of Soviet military intervention...Copy !req
1628. in other countries is now over.Copy !req
1629. Well, I told you.
- Told me what?Copy !req
1630. All we had to do
was shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
1631. Listen, not for nothing,
but do you know the story...Copy !req
1632. about the Zen master and the little boy?Copy !req
1633. Oh, is this something from Nitsa,Copy !req
1634. the Greek witch of Aquilippa, Pennsylvania?Copy !req
1635. Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is.Copy !req
1636. There was a little boy,
and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse.Copy !req
1637. And everybody in the village says,
'How wonderful. The boy got a horse.'Copy !req
1638. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1639. Two years later, the boy falls off the horse,
breaks his leg.Copy !req
1640. And everybody in the village says,
'How terrible.'Copy !req
1641. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1642. Then a war breaks out,Copy !req
1643. and all the young men
have to go off and fight,Copy !req
1644. except the boy can't
'cause his leg's all messed up.Copy !req
1645. And everybody in the village says,
'How wonderful.'Copy !req
1646. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1647. So you get it.
- No. No, I don't 'cause I'm stupid.Copy !req
1648. You're not stupid. You're just in Congress.Copy !req
1649. Send them money.
- You can start with the roads.Copy !req
1650. Move on to the schools, factories.
- Gus, now, it's a party.Copy !req
1651. Restock the sheep herds.
- Hey.Copy !req
1652. Give them jobs, give them hope.
- I'm trying. I'm trying.Copy !req
1653. Yeah, well, try harder.
- I'm fighting for every dollar.Copy !req
1654. Yeah, yeah.
- I took you from 5 million to a billion.Copy !req
1655. I broke the ice on the Stinger
and the MlLAN.Copy !req
1656. I got a Democratic Congress in lockstep
behind a Republican President.Copy !req
1657. Well, that's not good enough...Copy !req
1658. 'cause I'm gonna hand you
a code word classified NlE right now,Copy !req
1659. and it's gonna tell you
that the crazies have started rolling...Copy !req
1660. into Kandahar
like it's a fucking bathtub drain.Copy !req
1661. Jesus, Gus, you could depress a bride
on her wedding day.Copy !req
1662. Hey.Copy !req
1663. Listen to what I'm telling you.Copy !req
1664. You did a hell of a job
for the son of a soda pop maker.Copy !req
1665. 'We'll see,' said the Zen master.Copy !req
1666. $1 million for school reconstruction?Copy !req
1667. Oh, shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1668. Listen.
- He's like the congressman from Kabul.Copy !req
1669. Did you hear me say it was a million,
not a billion, for school construction?Copy !req
1670. Yeah, we heard you.
Everybody heard you, buddy.Copy !req
1671. They heard you in Dover, Delaware.Copy !req
1672. Well, I sure hope I'm
not annoying you, Bob,Copy !req
1673. 'cause that's the last thing I want to do.
- Look...Copy !req
1674. I was in the Roosevelt Room
with the President last week.Copy !req
1675. You know what he said?Copy !req
1676. He said,
'Afghanistan? Is that still going on?'Copy !req
1677. Well, it is.Copy !req
1678. Half the population of that country...Copy !req
1679. is under the age of 14.
- Charlie.Copy !req
1680. Half the population is under the age of 14.Copy !req
1681. Now, think how fucking dangerous that is.Copy !req
1682. They're gonna come home
and find their families are dead,Copy !req
1683. their villages have been napalmed.Copy !req
1684. And we helped kill the guys who did it.
- Yeah, but they don't know that, Bob,Copy !req
1685. 'cause they don't get home delivery
of The New York Times.Copy !req
1686. And even if they did,
it was covert, remember?Copy !req
1687. This is what we always do.
We always go in with our ideals...Copy !req
1688. and we change the
world and then we leave.Copy !req
1689. We always leave.Copy !req
1690. But that ball, though, it keeps on bouncing.Copy !req
1691. What?
- The ball keeps on bouncing.Copy !req
1692. Yeah, we're a little busy right now...Copy !req
1693. reorganizing Eastern Europe,
don't you think?Copy !req
1694. We've spent billions.Copy !req
1695. Let's spend a million on H.R.118
and rebuild a school.Copy !req
1696. Charlie, nobody gives a shit
about a school in Pakistan.Copy !req
1697. Afghanistan.Copy !req
1698. So, for the first time, a civilian
is being given our highest recognition,Copy !req
1699. that of Honored Colleague.Copy !req
1700. Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,Copy !req
1701. Congressman Charles Wilson.Copy !req
1702. Bravo, Charlie.Copy !req