Fair Game Page #4

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asking me to help out Uncle Sam,

I'm going to react unpredictably.

Given the theater, it's all too high-risk.

Even if we get to them,

they won't come out alone.

They'll want to bring their family,

their children, their kids.

We'll get down south to Basra,

we'll ask for Jordan's help.

Give me two months.

I'll give you two or three.

No, I have 29 names.

I need to get to them all.

The wall's too high, Val.

What do you want to do, train a mouse?

Maybe.

Hey. Did I wake you?

It's 3:
45 in the morning.

I got to be at the airport in 45 minutes.

How long this time?

Do we need childcare tomorrow?

I left it on a Post-it.

Of course. It's on the Post-it.

Look, I didn't want to wake you.

All we've been doing is leaving Post-its

for each other for months.

The fridge is like a dead letter drop.

Sh*t.

I sound like some old... God.

I don't know where you go.

I don't know who you meet.

I don't know if you're in jail somewhere

or in a ditch somewhere in Jordan, Beirut.

If you went missing, I couldn't tell anybody

because you were never there.

I don't know where you go.

I'm going to Cleveland.

It's on the Post-it.

Have a good day.

You have two of these

in your luggage.

This is the only pen we want you to use.

The ink on this pen

is visible for 10 seconds.

Only when given the correct

chemical fixative can it be read.

If the Mukhabarat see any of this they will

do things to me that you cannot imagine.

Tell me what you need to know.

I will memorize it.

We have 50 very specific questions,

some extremely technical.

You have 206 bones in your body.

Do you want their names

in English, Latin or Arabic?

How do you feel?

If anyone stops you,

anyone asks you anything,

stay calm. You're just visiting your brother.

Keep it simple.

How do you do it?

Lie to someone to their face?

Huh?

You have to know why you're lying

and never forget the truth.

ALl:
It's time.

Are you ready?

Welcome to Queen Alia

International Airport.

The Mukhabarat is watching the flight desk

on this side.

Based on what you know right now,

how close

is Saddam Hussein's government...

How close is that government

to developing a nuclear capability?

You'll get different estimates

about precisely how close he is.

We do know that there have been shipments

going into Iraq, for instance,

of aluminum tubes

that really are only suited

for nuclear weapons programs,

centrifuge programs.

There will always be some uncertainty

about how quickly

he can acquire nuclear weapons.

But we don't want the smoking gun

to be a mushroom cloud.

It's a coordinated leak.

Someone in the O VP leaked a story

to The New York Times.

Now they're all across the networks

quoting the leak.

"Smoking gun?" "Mushroom Cloud?"

They're using the same words.

It's a coordinated leak.

I'm coming home.

We have been able to intercept

and prevent him

from acquiring

through this particular channel

the kinds of tubes

that are necessary to build a centrifuge.

I always close the door,

I always roll up the window.

Yeah, but you can smell it.

What would you have me do, roll up a towel

and hide in the room

like a teenager smoking?

Or sandbag my study?

- Just go out on the deck.

- It's minus 10 degrees outside.

Steve, help me.

You're missing the whole point. A cigar,

you want the Winston Churchill vibe,

the slippers, the crackling fire.

Or musty books, like a faithful dog.

You don't want to be outside

in a goose down freezing your balls off

alone in the dark.

So, don't think Churchill.

Think Scott of the Antarctic.

I quit.

Can I ask a dumb question?

What is an aluminum tube?

It's a centrifuge. It enriches uranium.

How?

Nobody knows.

They do know what they're for. Come on.

Have you read about this, Valerie?

Oh, I was away last week on business.

Basically, Saddam bought these tubes

and we nailed him.

We have them

and they're packed with uranium.

They're packed with uranium?

They're packed with uranium!

My expert husband.

Okay, right. So, they're for purifying,

but the bomb comes later.

Basically, you boil it up

and you make the big one. Right?

No, says who? It's a bunch of tubes, Jeff.

Everything you read!

The New York Times. You're right.

Joe, you know about this stuff.

What's your hunch on this?

I don't know anything about tubes.

I'm not qualified.

I think...

It's a pretext! 50% of Americans

think Saddam blew up the towers.

Yeah, but you can't say

he's not a threat!

I agree!

Saddam's not a threat!

Nobody's saying that.

If we got rid of Hitler in the '30s...

He's not Hitler! I'm sorry, he's not Hitler.

He's Saddam.

We put him there. Why? It suited us!

He's our fault, always was. He's not a threat!

Have you met him, Fred?

Have you met Saddam?

Has Saddam looked you in the eye

and threatened you?

Has he threatened to kill you?

You don't know what you're talking about.

All right.

- I think that's probably true.

I'm guilty of part of that.

Dessert? Coffee? Any takers?

It was delicious.

I do think he had a point.

He's making a separate point.

Obviously, this needs to go elsewhere.

We have a rule in our house.

No politics at the table.

It always ends in a squabble.

Nobody knows what's going on over there.

At the end of the day, who really knows?

That's right, Sue. Who knows?

Hammad.

Cuckoo!

They have given me questions for you.

What questions?

How close is your program to a warhead?

When and where is the first test scheduled?

How much 235-grade uranium do you have?

Identify other scientists of the program.

Who in the military controls the program?

Which of the... Which...

What is it?

- They don't know?

- What, Hammad?

The program was completely destroyed

in the '90s.

The Americans destroyed it.

They know this.

What else?

How advanced is the centrifuge facility?

Which method are you using

to separate fissile isotopes?

This is insane.

We don't have the spare parts

to keep a tank on the road.

I have to work at a plant

which develops fertilizer. They know.

They know this. They must know.

You need to see this.

We need to get Jack to see this, and Bill.

Ambassador Wilson

was the last American official

to meet with Saddam Hussein.

It was 1990, and it was a pretty scary time.

Saddam threatened

that he was going to execute

anybody sheltering

people he called foreigners.

Ambassador Wilson

called a press conference

and appeared with a noose around his neck.

And he said, the press reports,

"If the choice is to allow Americans

to be taken as hostages

"or to be executed,

I'll bring my own f***ing rope. "

Saddam backed down

and Ambassador Wilson

helped thousands get safely home.

When he himself came home

to the United States

he was warmly greeted by our President,

who took him to the Oval Office

and introduced him to the War Cabinet

as an American hero.

That's not quite right. It was

the Roosevelt Room, not the Oval Office.

In the middle, please?

Does Saddam pose an imminent threat

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