Wag the Dog

Amy Cain: But there isn't a B-3 bomber. Conrad Brean: Where'd you go to school, kid? Wellesly? Cain: Dartmouth. Brean: Then show a little spunk. There Is no B-3 Bomber. General Scott, the best of your knowledge, is not in Seattle to talk with Boeing... Winifred Ames: It won't hold, Connie, it won't prove out. Brean: We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them. Ames: What on Earth would do that? Brean: Well, I'm working on that.

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Brean: You can't tell anyone about this. Brean: Let me ask you a simple question: Why do people go to war? CIA Agent Charlie Young: I'll play your silly game. Brean: Okay. Why do people go to war? Young: To ensure their way of life. Brean: Would you go to war to do that? Young: I have. Brean: And if you went to war again, who would it be against? Your ability to fight a two-ocean war against who? Who? Sweden and Togo? That time is passed. It's over. The war of the future is nuclear terrorism, and it'll be against a small group of dissidents who, unbeknownst perhaps to their own government, have... blah blah blah. To go to that war, you have to be prepared, you gotta be alert, the public has gotta be alert. Because that is the war of the future, and if you're not gearing up to fight that war, then eventually the axe will fall, and you're gonna be out on the street. You can call this a drill, you can call this job security, you can call it anything you like. But I got one for you: You sa

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Yeah, it's like a plumber: do your job right and nobody should notice. But when you fuck it up, everything gets full of shit.

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Motss: As long as he gets his medications, he's fine. Ames: What if he doesn't get them? Motss: He's not fine.

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Brean: Our job's over come election day. Brean: What, just for the symmetry of the thing? [Motss nods] Well, if Kissinger can win the Peace Prize, I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up and found I'd won the Preakness. Motss: Yeah, but our guy did bring peace. Brean: There was never a war. Motss: All the greater accomplishment.

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