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Charlie Wilson's War Page #6
I was only 13, but I
had a farmer's license
and I filled up my car with black voters
and drove them to the polling place
and then waited, then
drove them on home.
But before they got
out of the car to vote
I said, "I don't mean to influence
you, but I think you should know
intentionally killed my dog. "
About 400 ballots were
cast in that election.
I drove 96 of them to the polls.
Hazard lost by 16 votes.
And that's the day I fell
in love with America.
What time do we land?
7:
30 a. m. In D.C.I want the CIA in my office at 10:00.
Assistant Deputy Director or higher.
Tell them that if I don't
see someone at 10:00,
I'm gonna start docking their allowance
at a rate of $1 million a minute.
Yes, sir.
And get me another one
of them, would you?
Yes, sir.
The AKs, RPG-7 grenade launchers
and 82 millimeter mortars are coming
into Pakistan by air and sea,
and then trucks take them
to the Afghan border.
Then we take them across on mules,
which are running a little
more than we thought.
- The mules?
- They're 2,400 a piece,
- plus we got to get them checked out.
- For what?
Diseases. Foot and mouth. Plus they
have to have their ears cleaned.
health care than the Afghans.
Plus, they're gonna cost a little
extra if we want them pre-trained.
- To do what?
- Walk over a mountain
with ammunition on their back.
Aren't they born with that instinct?
I mean, isn't that something
they want to do naturally?
You think Afghanistan might, one day,
think about building some f***ing roads?
- Gust.
- Yeah?
I got something for you.
I need you to be specific...
Get your diary. I'll show you.
Okay.
- No problem.
- Thank you.
He should be here any moment.
I'm fine.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Congressman.
- Welcome back.
- Yeah. Marla.
- Welcome back.
- Suzanne.
Welcome back.
Who are you?
This is Gust Avrakotos.
He's come up from Langley to
bring you the information
- that you wanted.
- Bonnie!
Yes, sir?
I said Assistant Deputy
Director or higher.
- I know, sir. I called...
- No, Assistant Deputies don't come
to the Hill without a subpoena.
I'm the guy you want to talk to,
Congressman. I'm on the Afghan desk.
- You're on the Afghan desk?
- Yeah.
Well, I wouldn't be too proud of
that. I just got back from there.
Oh, I know.
And that's a hell of a flight, too.
against the jet stream.
Probably had to stop in Brussels,
plus the time difference.
I'd be a little grumpy myself.
I ain't grumpy because of the plane.
We want to give you this 'cause
we know you like single malt.
It's called Talisker,
and it's mentioned in a
The Scotsman's Return from Abroad.
"The king o' drinks, as I conceive it,
"Talisker, Isla or Glenlivet!"
- Who are you again?
- Gust Avrakotos.
Have Bonnie come into this meeting.
Yes, sir.
What's the gift for?
It's from the Afghan desk for doubling
the budget for the mujahideen.
Oh. Well, thank you.
It was nothing.
Well, it's a nice bottle of Scotch.
Must've been hard to get.
No, doubling the budget was nothing.
I mean, $10 million for covert ops
against the Russian Army is meaningless.
- What are you, an infant?
- Now, you hang on just one second.
I don't remember your name.
Gust Avrakotos.
Gust Avrakotos.
Yeah.
Okay, you mind if I call you Gus?
Yeah, well, my name's Gust
with a "t," but I don't care.
Fifteen hours ago, I offered Harold
Holt the keys to the safe, okay?
office in Islamabad,
and I said, "How much do you need?"
And I was apparently annoying him.
Well, Harold Holt's a massive tool,
Congressman. He's a cake-eater.
He's a clown.
He's a bad station chief.
And I don't mean to cast aspersions on
a guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Well, how does he expect to defeat
the Soviets in Afghanistan without...
He said, "A sudden influx of money... "
Yeah, an influx of money
and new weaponry would draw attention.
He's not trying to defeat
the Soviets, Congressman.
What the hell are you talking about?
Excuse me.
I'm the Congressman's aide, Bonnie Bach.
Gust Avrakotos.
Gus, I need the room for a second.
- Sure.
- Jailbait!
Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey.
Whoa, all right.
Just tell me what's happening.
A Justice Department task
force that was formed last year
to investigate reports of sex
between members of the House
and their male interns
has recently widened
to include the use of recreational drugs
by senators and congressmen.
Do you know a man named Paul Brown?
- He doesn't have to answer that.
- Keep going.
Oh, sh*t.
Paul Brown, under investigation
by federal prosecutors for fraud.
some TV show for Crystal.
Well, he's saying he witnessed
in a fantasy suite in Las Vegas.
Brian Ross at NBC is breaking the story.
All right, guys. I was in Las
Vegas with Crystal and Paul Brown,
because she wanted me to talk
to him about this thing.
There was cocaine?
I want you to go in the other
room and start on a statement.
- Let's get Stu on the phone.
- Okay, I'll call him.
Okay, Bait, you just need to start...
It's all right, everybody.
It's gonna be all right.
I want to get back to...
Gus!
You having problems?
No.
What do you mean, he's not
trying to defeat the Soviets?
Well, he wants to bleed
them. Payback for Vietnam.
Make it so they just have
keep sending money,
and troops, and money
until they just go out of their
f***ing minds the way we did.
You mean to tell me that the
U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
is to have the Afghans keep
walking into machine gun fire
till the Russians run out of bullets?
That's Harold Holt's strategy.
- It's not U.S. Strategy.
- What is U.S. Strategy?
Well, strictly speaking,
we don't have one.
But we're working hard on that.
- Who's we?
Would you excuse me?
All right, what do you have?
"Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...
he is joining several
members of Congress
"who are under investigation by a
Justice Department
task force that is... "
Don't say task force. It makes it sound
- like Eliot Ness is running the thing.
- Okay.
Who is running the thing?
Who's the prosecutor?
Rudolph Giuliani, New
York, Southern District.
You know him?
No.
Well, it's been going on forever.
We should say that, too.
"Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...
he is joining several
members of Congress
"who are under investigation
by the Justice Department
"in what is now an 18-month
long, wide-ranging examination
"that has resulted in no convictions. "
"Congressman Wilson has not
been charged with any crime,
"nor has he been questioned
by the authorities.
"He denies any allegation of
illegal or improper behavior
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