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:08:03
Tell me this again.
:08:06
We landing?
:08:09
Tell me again.
:08:10
Don't worry.
lt's nothing new.

:08:13
During Reagan's administration,
240 Marines killed in Beirut.

:08:17
24 hours later,
we invade Grenada.

:08:19
That was their M.O.
:08:20
Change the story,
change the lead.

:08:22
lt's not a new concept.
:08:23
Wake me when we land.
We'll talk more.

:08:25
Wait.
We can't afford a war.

:08:27
We're not having a war.
:08:29
We're having
the appearance of a war.

:08:31
We cannot afford it.
:08:33
-What'll it cost?
-But they would find out.

:08:36
Who's gonna find out?
The American people?

:08:38
Who's gonna tell them?
:08:40
What did they find out
about the Gulf War?

:08:43
One video of one bomb
falls down a chimney.

:08:46
The building could have been
made out of Legos.

:08:48
-You want us to go to war?
-That's the general idea.

:08:52
With who?
:08:54
l'm working on it.
:08:58
Albania?
:09:01
Why?
:09:03
Why not?
What do you know about them?

:09:05
-Nothing.
-Precisely.

:09:07
They seem shifty, standoffish.
:09:10
Who knows from Albania?
Who trusts Albanians?

:09:13
What did Albania ever do to us?
:09:15
What did they do for us?
:09:16
This is why we have to
mobilize the B-3 bomber.

:09:19
You really want to go
to war with Albania?

:09:21
We don't have a choice.
This is what you do.

:09:24
Get your press office
right now to deny it.

:09:27
lt didn't happen.
:09:28
"There is no report
of Albanian activity."

:09:31
They have to deny it.
:09:33
-lt didn't happen.
-Deny.

:09:35
...news from the president
on his visit to China.

:09:38
Another sort of news, however...
:09:40
has emerged
from the presidential quarter.

:09:42
We turn to Melissa Gardner
at KZAB in Santa Fe...

:09:45
with this breaking news.
:09:47
Thanks, Richard.
Today a local Firefly Girl...

:09:50
accused the president
of sexual misconduct.

:09:53
This photo of the president
with the girls...

:09:55
was taken during their tour
of the White House.

:09:58
The girl claims
that the sexual misconduct...


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