Deterrence Page #8

It's gonna be fine.

No matter what happens,

it will never be fine again.

Listen, I'm not gonna be able to get you

and Tracey up in the looking glass.

The harder right over the easier wrong?

Listen, it's not... I just

need a working government.

I need every seat,

that's all. I...

Don't do it.

I love you, bean.

We... we gotta get the

looking glass to Andrews.

Yeah. Of course.

I already called it in.

Good.

How's Tracey?

She's a kid.

She's good.

Bean?

I don't know.

I need the cabinet on the ground,

so we should put the deputies up.

We should also probably board speaker Hazel.

Aw, Jesus. That fat, smelly f*** is

gonna load the whole shebang down.

Guy couldn't shovel sand in a rat hole.

I suppose he's next in line, but

why do we have to get him up,

put him in control?

It was all for naught getting the nomination.

No, here's what we do.

We make a constitutional play. We argue that

Teddy slater is the de facto vice president.

Not Hazel. You don't think we're

on the tightrope already?

Why don't we just play this one by the book?

All right, I'll put fatso in the air.

Maybe it'll crash.

You hangin' in there?

Yes, sir. This weather's something.

You went to school around here, didn't you?

The air force academy, right?

Yes, sir. Couldn't get

into west point. Yeah.

Do you, ever look inside that thing?

Yes, sir. What's it look like in there?

Is it ominous? Not as

ominous as it should be.

I guess these things never are,

Listen, Nick, I just wanted you to know...

How much I appreciate the fact that...

You may be the first of your kind to

ever actually have to do his job,

and it means a lot to me

to have you on the team.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Roger that, bravo team leader. We

believe that was just a deer. Out.

Roger. Out.

For a man who has sent

the world into turmoil,

it is surprising how little

we know about udei Hussein.

Carla livingstone is a fellow with the

tumar institute in Philadelphia...

And is currently working on a

book about the Hussein dynasty.

Carla, what advice do you give to president

Emerson given what you know about...

We're done. The speaker was already

at Andrews with his family.

His family?

Yeah.

The bad news has been conveyed.

If you look at our history,

it's filled with...

Prognosticating the behavior of world

leaders as if they were all rational.

Things are a little different...

From when we were at Princeton.

Little less hair, a few more pounds.

I was quarterback.

You were the running back.

Yes, but, as you said, it was Princeton.

Yeah.

Back then, you won at everything, marsh.

Debate class, poker, cheerleaders.

Udei actually killed his father's

valet... but you got bean.

He would pummel him to death with a club

at a party honoring hosni mubarak's wife.

You're not with me on this one, are you?

The garden of Eden was in Iraq.

Did you know that?

No.

Yeah, yeah.

The garden of Eden was in Iraq.

Walt,

did you ever read the test

results on Los Alamos in '45?

It was a motherf***er of a fireball.

It rose to 10,000 feet before it dimmed.

People could see it 180 Miles away.

Shattered glass a hundred Miles away.

Yeah, it was...

It was beautiful.

Very impressive.

It, it created a crater that

was a thousand feet in diameter.

And there was this... this...

Steel tower.

It was about ten stories high.

It weighed 220 tons.

It was knocked right off its foundation.

And then...

Just evaporated.

Just like that.

Now, what you are going to do in Baghdad...

Is gonna make those tests

look like mosquito bites.

You are going to be wiping out Baghdad.

There's going to be nothing left.

No rebuilding, no aid, nothing.

Just cockroaches.

You will be wiping out a civilization...

Where civilization began.

And, my friend,

you'd better damn well be okay with that.

Sir, general Riley is

currently available at offut.

General Riley?

Yes, sir.

What status report can you give us?

Well, sir, the republican guards

moved 20 clicks from Saudi Arabia.

There's no hint of withdrawal?

Not at all.

In fact, it now seems

the Syrian and iranian armies...

Are moving troops to the Israeli front.

The Israeli military is fully mobilized.

Are the Israeli fighters in the air?

No, sir, but the Israeli nuclear silos...

The ones that don't exist?

Yes, those ones.

They've gone hot. Excuse me. Mr. president?

General Riley, hold on a second.

Yes, general Lancaster.

We... we've latched onto every

known nuclear silo on the planet.

And? And it seems everyone

has gone hot, sir.

Mr. president,

it's Carl isaacson at ibs.

Well, now, this certainly

should be interesting.

Mr. isaacson. Mr. Thompson, how are you?

Yeah, quite a mess we have going on.

What could we do for you? Well, look...

We got a situation here.

We've been approached by haffez

Omari about going on the air.

Wha... it...

He wants to go on the air?

That's right.

And, you know, given the circumstances,

we'd like to get a green light.

Hold on.

You can't be serious. Really? Yes.

Where is he? At his office at the u.N.

We have a crew, and we're ready to go.

Okay, put him on the air.

Okay?

Yes, okay.

Okay, we're talkin' less than a minute.

All right. Thank you for consulting with us.

No problem.

You know, you think there's a panic now,

wait till this prick finishes his speech.

And if you could say anything

to udei Hussein tonight?

I'm sure I am saying it to him.

He is a huge fan of ibs.

Go ahead, then. Abu Hussein on ibs.

Love your country. Livin'

large in Providence, r.I.

Thank you very much, Mr. Hussein.

Abu Hussein, the nephew of...

Okay. We're moving

fast here, folks.

Standing by at the united

nations is haffez Omari,

the Iraqi ambassador

to the u.N.

Mr. Omari, thank you

for joining us tonight.

Yes. Thank you.

Allow me to begin by asking

about your specific intentions.

I have not agreed to be subjected

to a hostile interview.

I instead have a statement

of some urgency to make.

Okay, then.

Go ahead.

One hour ago, your nonelected president...

Announced that he had

ordered the delivery...

Of nuclear bombs...

To be dropped with... no... on

the peaceful people of Iraq.

Five minutes ago, surveillance indicated...

That a fleet of war planes...

Have left a base in Saudi Arabia...

Without Saudi approval.

We do not feel the need to

engage in a war with the U.S.A.,

and so we must do... Yes!

What we have to to stop the aggression.

They're gonna cave.

They're gonna cave! Congratulations, Mr.

President.

They reacted as you expected.

So it humbles us to come...

To this level.

I have before me a list

of precise locations.

I have just now sent them...

Via facsimile to the office...

Of the American chairman...

Of the joint chiefs...

This very list.

These are the locations...

Of land-based and submarine-based missiles...

General Lancaster.

Armed with nuclear warheads.

The moment the American

wing of fighters crosses...

Iraqi airspace,

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