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Was it all just a dream?
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God bless you, Florida! Thank you!
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Did the last four years
not really happen?
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Look, there's Ben Affleck.
He's often in my dreams.
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And the Taxi Driver guy.
He was there too.
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And little Stevie Wonder,
he seemed so happy...
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...Like a miracle had taken place.
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Was it a dream?
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We want Gore!
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Or was it real?
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It was election night 2000, and things
seemed to be going as planned.
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In New York, Al Gore is
our projected winner.
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The Garden State is green for Gore.
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We project Mr. Gore the winner in
Delaware. This state has voted with--
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Excuse me, one second.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
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Mike, I wouldn't do this
if it weren't big.
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Florida goes for Al Gore.
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CNN announces that we call Florida
in the Al Gore column.
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Then something called the Fox News
Channel called the election...
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...in favor of the other guy.
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Fox News now projects George
W. Bush the winner in Florida...
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...and thus it appears the winner of the
presidency of the United States.
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All of a sudden, the other
networks said:
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"Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.”
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All of us at the networks made
a mistake...
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...and projected Florida
in the Al Gore column.
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It was our mistake.
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What most people don't know is
that the man in charge...
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...of the decision desk at Fox
that night...
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...the man who called it for Bush...
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...was none other than Bush's
first cousin John Ellis.
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How does someone like Bush get
away with something like this?
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Well, first, it helps if your brother is
the governor of the state in question.
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You know something? We are gonna
win Florida. Mark my words.
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You can write it down.
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Second, make sure
your campaign chairman...
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...is also the vote-count woman
and that her state hires a company...
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...to knock voters off the rolls
who aren't likely to vote for you.
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You can usually tell them
by the color of their skin.
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Then make sure your side fights
like it's life or death.
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This talk about legitimacy
is overblown.
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President Bush! President Bush!
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And hope the other side
sits by.
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And even if numerous independent
investigations...
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...prove that Gore got the
most votes...
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If there was a statewide recount,
Gore won the election.
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...it won't matter, as long as all
your daddy's friends...
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...on the Supreme Court vote
the right way.
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While I strongly disagree with
the court's decision, I accept it.
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What we need now is acceptance.
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We have a new president-elect.
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It turns out none of this was a dream.
It's what really happened.
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On the day the joint session of both
the House of Representatives...
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...and the Senate was to certify
the election results...
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...Al Gore, in his dual role
as outgoing vice president...
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...and president of the Senate...
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...presided over the event
that would officially anoint...
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...George W. Bush
as the new president.
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If any congressman wanted to raise
an objection, the rules insisted...
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...that he or she had to have the
signed support of just one senator.
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Mr. President, and I take great pride
in calling you that...
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...must object because
of the overwhelming evidence...
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...of misconduct, deliberate fraud
and an attempt to suppress voter--
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The chair must remind members
that under Section 18 of Title 3...
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...United States Code, no debate
is allowed in the joint session.
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Thank you, Mr. President.
To answer your question...
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...the objection is in writing, signed
by a number of members...
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...of the House of Representatives,
but not by a member of the Senate.
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Mr. President, it is in writing and
signed by several House colleagues...
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...on behalf, and myself, of the 27,000
voters of Duval County...
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...in which 16,000 of them are
African-Americans...
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...that was disenfranchised
in this last election.
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Is the objection signed by a member
of the Senate?
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Not signed by a member
of the Senate.
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The Senate is missing.
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It is in writing and signed
by myself...
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...on behalf of many
of the diverse constituents...
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...especially those
in the 9th Congressional District...
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...and all American voters who
recognize that the Supreme Court...
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...not the people of the United States,
decided this election.
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Is the objection signed
by a senator?
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Unfortunately, Mr. President, it is
not signed by one single senator.
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I have no authority
over the United States Senate...
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...and no senator has signed.
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Mr. President, it is in writing and
signed by myself and several...
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...of my constituents from Florida.
A senator is needed, but missing.
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Is the objection in writing...
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...and signed by a member
of the House and a senator?
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The objection is in writing,
and I don't care...
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...that it is not signed by a member
of the Senate.
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The chair will advise that the rules
do care...
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...and the signature of a senator...
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Not a single senator came to the aid
of the African-Americans in Congress.
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One after another, they were told
to sit down and shut up.
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It's a sad day in America,
Mr. President, when we can't find...
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...a senator to sign the objections--
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-The gentleman will suspend--
-New Democratic senators won't sign.
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- I object.
-The gentleman will suspend.
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Inauguration coverage, 2001
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...on a nasty, but it could be worse,
kind of day in Washington.
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-What do we want?
-Justice!
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-When do we want it?
-Now!
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On the day George W. Bush was
inaugurated...
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...tens of thousands of Americans
poured into the streets of DC...
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...in one last attempt to reclaim
what had been taken from them.
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They pelted Bush's limo with eggs...
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Stay back! Get back!
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...and brought the inauguration
parade to a halt.
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The plan to have Bush get out
of the limo for the traditional walk...
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...to the White House
was scrapped.
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Bush's limo hit the gas to prevent
an even larger riot.
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No president had ever witnessed
such a thing on his inauguration day.
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And for the next eight months, it didn't
get any better for George W. Bush.
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He couldn't get his judges appointed,
he struggled to pass his legislation...
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...and he lost Republican control
of the Senate.
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His approval ratings in the polls
began to sink.
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He was already beginning to look
like a lame-duck president.
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With everything going wrong,
he did what any of us would do.
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He went on vacation.
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Oh, no!
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In his first eight months in office
before September 11th...
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...George W. Bush was on vacation,
according to The Washington Post...
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...42 percent of the time.
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If I hit every shot good, people would
say I wasn't working.
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It was not surprising that Mr. Bush
needed some time off.
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Being president is a lot of work.
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What about these folks that say that
you're taking too long of a vacation?
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They don't understand the definition
of work, then.
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I'm getting a lot done. You don't
have to be in Washington to work.
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It's amazing what can happen
with telephones and faxes.
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Thank you so much.
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-Is this to Destiny and Bubba?
-Yeah.
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What are you doing the rest
of the day?
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Karen Hughes is coming over.
We're working on some things.
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And she'll be over here. We're working
on a few things, a few matters.
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I'm working on some initiatives.
We're... You'll see.
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There'll be some decisions
I will have made while I'm here.
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We"ll be announcing them
as time goes on.
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The first time { met him, he had
some good advice for me.
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Governor Bush, it's Michael Moore.
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Behave yourself, will you?
Go find real work.
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And work was something he knew
a lot about.
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-Anybody want some grits?
-Yeah.
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Relaxing at Camp David.
Yachting off Kennebunkport.
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How you doing?
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Or being a cowboy on the ranch
in Texas.
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I love nature, getting
in the truck with my dogs.
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Oh, hi.
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George Bush spent the rest
ofAugust at the ranch...
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...where life was less complicated.
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Armadillos love to dig the soil
looking for bugs.
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And...
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So I went out there the other day,
and there was Barney...
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...buried in this hole,
chasing an armadillo.
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It was a summer to remember.
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Afterward, he left Texas for
his second-favorite place.
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On September 10th, he joined
his brother in Florida...
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...where they looked at files
and met important Floridians.
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He went to sleep that night in a bed
made with fine French linens.
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Do you suppose he's pretty
confident...
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...on those numbers on Iraqi
security forces?
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Make me look young.
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Yeah, I've got a little,
sort of air noise.
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Yeah, just don't turn it up too much.
I don't want to blow my head off.
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I got a mike here
if they want to use it.
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Testing, one, two. This is
the Oval Office. Testing, one, two.
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Testing, one, two.
This is the Oval Office.
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Testing, one, two, three, four, five.
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We have something that has
happened here...
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...at the World Trade Center.
We noticed a flame...
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...and an awful lot of smoke...
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This is horrible.
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-Oh, my God!
-Oh, my God.
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Oh, my, dear.
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Let's go! Let's go, back!
Come on, let's go!
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Oh, my God!
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Save their souls, Lord.
Save their souls, Lord.
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Oh, they're jumping.
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On September 11th, 2001,
nearly 3000 people...
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...including a colleague of mine,
Bill Weems...
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...were killed in the largest foreign
attack ever on American soil.
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The targets were the financial
and military headquarters...
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...of the United States.
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If anyone has any idea or they've seen
him or knows where he is, to call us.
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He's got two little babies.
Two little babies.
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As the attack took place,
Mr. Bush was on his way...
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...to an elementary school
in Florida.
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When informed of the first plane
hitting the World Trade Center...
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...where terrorists had struck
just eight years prior...
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...Mr. Bush decided to go ahead
with his photo opportunity.
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-Good morning, boys and girls.
-Good morning.
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Good morning.
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Read this word the fast way.
Get ready.
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"Mad"!
-Yes. Get ready.
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-"Calf"!
-Yeah.
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Get ready to read the words on this
page without making a mistake.
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When the second plane hit
the tower...
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...his chief of staff entered
the classroom...
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...and told Mr. Bush,
"The nation is under attack.”
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Not knowing what to do, with no one
telling him what to do...
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...and no Secret Service rushing
in to take him to safety...
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...Mr. Bush just sat there...
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...and continued to read
My Pet Goat with the children.
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Nearly seven minutes passed
with nobody doing anything.
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As Bush sat in that Florida
classroom...
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...was he wondering if maybe
he should have shown up...
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...to work more often?
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Should he have held at least one
meeting since taking office...
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...to discuss the threat of terrorism
with his head of counterterrorism?
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Maybe Bush wondered why he had
cut terrorism funding from the FBI.
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Or perhaps he just should have read
the security briefing...
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...that was given to him on
August 6th, 2001
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...which said Osama bin Laden
was planning...
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...to attack America by hijacking
airplanes.
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Maybe he wasn't worried, because
the title of the report was too vague.
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I believe the title was
"Bin Laden Determined...
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...to Attack Inside the United States."
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A report like that might make
some men jump...
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...but, as in days past,
George W. just went fishing.
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As the minutes went by, George Bush
continued to sit in the classroom.
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Was he thinking, "I've been hanging
out with the wrong crowd.
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Which one of them screwed me?
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Was it the guy my daddy's friends
delivered a lot of weapons to?
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Was it that group of religious
fundamentalists...
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...who visited my state when
I was governor?
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Or was it the Saudis?
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Damn. It was them. I think
I better blame it on this guy.”
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In the days following
September 11th...
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...all commercial and private airline
traffic was grounded.
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The FAA has taken the action to close
all of the airports in the United States.
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Even grounding the president's
father, former President Bush...
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...on a flight forced to land
in Milwaukee.
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Thousands of travelers were stranded,
among them Ricky Martin...
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...due to appear at tonight's
Latin Grammy Awards.
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Not even Ricky Martin could fly.
But really, who wanted to fly?
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No one, except the bin Ladens.
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We had airplanes pick up...
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...Osama bin Laden's family
and other Saudis...
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...and transport them out
of the US.
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The White House approved planes...
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...to pick up the bin Ladens
and numerous other Saudis.
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At least six private jets and nearly
two dozen commercial planes...
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...carried the Saudis
and bin Ladens...
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...out of the US. after
September 13th.
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In all, 142 Saudis, including 24
members of the bin Laden family...
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...were allowed to leave
the country.
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Osama's always been portrayed
as the black sheep in the family...
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...that they cut off all relationship
with him in 1994.
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It's more complicated than that.
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Osama has had contact with
other family members?
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Right. In the summer of 2001 , just
before 9/11, one of Osama's sons...
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...got married in Afghanistan,
and several family members...
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-...showed up at the wedding.
-Bin Ladens?
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That's right. So they're not cut off
completely. That's an exaggeration.
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We now welcome to
Larry King Live...
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...Prince Bandar, ambassador of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the US.
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You had about 24 members
of bin Laden's family, and--
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-Here?
-In America. Students and--
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His Majesty felt it's not fair for those
innocent people to be subjected...
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...to any harm. On the other hand,
we understood the high emotions...
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...so, with coordination with the FBI,
we got them out.
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This is retired FBI agent
Jack Cloonan.
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Before 9/11, he was a senior agent
on the joint FBI-CIA...
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...al Qaeda task force.
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I, as an investigator, would not
want these people to have left.
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I think, in the case of the bin Laden
family, it would have been prudent...
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...to hand the subpoenas out, have
them come in, get on-the-record.
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You know, get on-the-record.
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-That's the proper procedure?
-Yeah.
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How many people were pulled off
airlines after that...
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...coming into the country
who were Middle Eastern...
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...or they fit a very general picture.
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We held hundreds of people
for weeks and months at a time.
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Did the authorities do anything when
the bin Ladens tried to leave?
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No. They were identified
at the airport.
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They looked at their passports,
and they were identified.
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That would happen to us
if we left the country.
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-Exactly.
-Interview, check the passport.
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-What else?
-Nothing.
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I don't know about you,
but usually...
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...when the police can't find
a murderer...
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...don't they usually wanna talk
to the family members...
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...to find out where they think
he might be?
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You don't know
where your husband is?
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If you hear anything,
let us know.
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Can you come downtown,
give a statement?
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-How long?
-You've got time.
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Mine's worth money. Yours isn't.
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-Send a bill.
-I asked you a question.
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-Answer them. Don't ask them.
-I pay your salary, cop.
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Sit down. I'm gonna earn it.
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Yeah. That's how cops do it.
What was going on here?
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We need to know more about that.
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It needs to be the subject
of an investigation.
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What happened? How did it happen?
Why? Who authorized it?
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Imagine what those poor bastards
were feeling...
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...when jumping off that
building to their death.
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Those young guys and cops
and firemen...
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...that ran into that building,
never asked a question.
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And they're dead.
And families' lives are ruined.
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-And they'll never have peace.
-That's right.
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And if! had to inconvenience...
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...a member of the bin Laden family
with a subpoena or a grand jury...
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...do you think I'd lose sleep over it?
Not a minute.
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No one would question it.
Not even the biggest civil libertarian.
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-No, no. It's just--
-No one would question it.
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You know, you got a lawyer? Fine.
Counsel? Fine.
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Mr. bin Laden, this is why I'm asking.
It isn't because I think you're anything.
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I just want to ask you the questions
that I would anybody.
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-Right.
-And that's all.
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None of this made any sense.
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Can you imagine in the days after
the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing...
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00:24:35,971 --> 00:24:38,098
...President Clinton helping to arrange
a trip...
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...out of the country
for the McVeigh family?
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What would have happened
to Clinton...
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-...if that had been revealed?
-Burn him! Burn him!
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Prince Bandar, do you know
the bin Laden family?
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00:24:49,693 --> 00:24:51,361
- I do, very well.
-What are they like?
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They're really lovely human beings.
He is the only one I never--
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I don't know him well,
but I met him only once.
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What was the circumstance
under which you met?
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This is ironic. In the mid-'80s...
325
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...if you remember,
we and the United States...
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...were supporting the mujahideen...
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...to liberate Afghanistan
from the Soviets.
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00:25:11,922 --> 00:25:16,843
He came to thank me for my efforts
to bring the Americans, our friends...
329
00:25:17,135 --> 00:25:20,555
...to help us against the atheists,
the Communists. Isn't it ironic?
330
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He came to thank you for helping
bring America to help him.
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And now he may be responsible
for bombing America.
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-Absolutely.
-What did you make of him?
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-I was not impressed.
-Not impressed?
334
00:25:33,610 --> 00:25:37,280
No. I thought he was a simple
and very quiet guy.
335
00:25:39,156 --> 00:25:44,453
A simple and quiet guy, whose
family just happened to have...
336
00:25:44,745 --> 00:25:50,334
...a business relationship with
the family of George W. Bush.
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Is that what he was thinking about?
338
00:25:54,547 --> 00:25:59,844
Because if the public knew this,
it wouldn't look very good.
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00:26:00,678 --> 00:26:03,889
Was he thinking, "You know...
340
00:26:04,181 --> 00:26:08,352
...I need a big, black marker"?
341
00:26:10,062 --> 00:26:14,233
In early 2004, in a speech during
the New Hampshire primary...
342
00:26:14,525 --> 00:26:17,028
...1 called George W. Bush
a deserter...
343
00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:20,239
...from his time
in the Texas Air National Guard.
344
00:26:20,531 --> 00:26:24,618
In response, the White House
released his military records...
345
00:26:24,910 --> 00:26:27,495
...in the hopes of disproving
the charge.
346
00:26:27,787 --> 00:26:31,583
What Bush didn't know is
that I already had a copy...
347
00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:36,546
...of his military records, uncensored,
obtained in the year 2000.
348
00:26:36,838 --> 00:26:39,799
And there is one glaring difference
between the records released...
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00:26:40,091 --> 00:26:45,180
...in 2000 and those he released
in 2004.
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A name had been blacked out.
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00:26:51,061 --> 00:26:54,773
In 1972, two airmen were suspended
for failing to take...
352
00:26:55,065 --> 00:27:01,362
...their medical examination.
One was George W. Bush.
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00:27:03,823 --> 00:27:06,868
And the other was James R. Bath.
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00:27:09,079 --> 00:27:12,957
In 2000, the documents show
both names.
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00:27:13,541 --> 00:27:19,839
But in 2004, Bush and the White
House had Bath's name blacked out.
356
00:27:21,091 --> 00:27:23,259
Why didn't Bush want the press
and the public...
357
00:27:23,551 --> 00:27:26,554
...to see Bath's name
on his military records?
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00:27:26,846 --> 00:27:30,183
Perhaps he was worried that the
American people would find out...
359
00:27:30,475 --> 00:27:32,852
...that at one time, James R. Bath...
360
00:27:33,144 --> 00:27:37,232
...was the Texas money manager
for the bin Ladens.
361
00:27:38,024 --> 00:27:40,068
Bush and Bath had become
good friends...
362
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,529
...when they both served in the
Texas Air National Guard.
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00:27:43,821 --> 00:27:45,155
After they were discharged...
364
00:27:45,447 --> 00:27:47,908
...when Bush's dad was head
of the CIA...
365
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,037
...Bath opened up his own aviation
business after selling a plane...
366
00:27:52,329 --> 00:27:55,582
...to a man by the name
of Salem bin Laden...
367
00:27:55,874 --> 00:27:59,128
...heir to the second-largest fortune
in Saudi Arabia...
368
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...the Saudi Bin Ladin Group.
369
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W. at that time was just starting off
in the world as a businessman.
370
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Because he's a guy who's always
tried to emulate his father...
371
00:28:11,223 --> 00:28:14,685
...he went into the oil business.
He founded an oil company, Arbusto...
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00:28:14,977 --> 00:28:18,689
...which was very good at drilling dry
holes that nothing came out of.
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00:28:18,981 --> 00:28:22,358
But the question has always been,
"Where did this money come from?"
374
00:28:22,650 --> 00:28:26,696
Now, his dad was rich. His dad
could have done this for him...
375
00:28:26,988 --> 00:28:28,906
...but his dad didn't do this for him.
376
00:28:29,198 --> 00:28:33,202
There's no indication Daddy wrote a
check to start him off in his company.
377
00:28:34,162 --> 00:28:36,622
So where did George W. Bush
get his money?
378
00:28:36,914 --> 00:28:38,541
I'm George Bush.
379
00:28:38,833 --> 00:28:42,044
One person who did invest in him
was James R. Bath.
380
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:48,551
Bush's good friend, James Bath,
was hired by the bin Laden family...
381
00:28:48,843 --> 00:28:52,722
...to manage their money in Texas
and invest in businesses.
382
00:28:56,893 --> 00:29:02,648
And James Bath himself, in turn,
invested in George W. Bush.
383
00:29:04,608 --> 00:29:07,277
Bush ran Arbusto into the ground...
384
00:29:07,569 --> 00:29:10,238
...as he did every other company
he was involved in...
385
00:29:10,530 --> 00:29:14,951
...until finally one of his companies
was bought by Harken Energy...
386
00:29:15,744 --> 00:29:18,288
...and they gave him a seat
on their board.
387
00:29:18,955 --> 00:29:22,918
A lot of us suspected through
the years that there has been...
388
00:29:23,210 --> 00:29:25,295
...Saudi oil money involved
in these companies:
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00:29:25,587 --> 00:29:30,758
Harken, Spectrum 7, Arbusto
Drilling, all the Bush companies.
390
00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:33,886
Whenever they got in trouble,
there were these angel investors...
391
00:29:34,178 --> 00:29:36,013
...who flowed money into
the companies.
392
00:29:36,305 --> 00:29:40,601
The question is, why would Saudis,
who had all the oil in the world...
393
00:29:40,893 --> 00:29:45,522
...go around the globe to invest
in this lousy oil company?
394
00:29:45,814 --> 00:29:49,735
And the thing is, Harken had one
big thing going for it...
395
00:29:50,027 --> 00:29:53,364
...which is that George W. Bush
was on its board of directors...
396
00:29:53,656 --> 00:29:56,742
...at a time when his father was
president of the United States.
397
00:29:57,034 --> 00:29:59,912
When you're the president's son
and you've got unlimited access...
398
00:30:01,622 --> 00:30:04,207
...combined with some credentials
from a prior campaign...
399
00:30:04,499 --> 00:30:08,419
...in Washington, DC, people tend
to respect that. Access is power.
400
00:30:08,711 --> 00:30:13,174
And I can find my dad and talk
to him any time of the day.
401
00:30:13,758 --> 00:30:16,719
Yes, it helps
to be the president's son...
402
00:30:17,011 --> 00:30:19,013
...especially when you're being
investigated...
403
00:30:19,305 --> 00:30:21,432
...by the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
404
00:30:21,724 --> 00:30:24,435
In 1990, when Mr. Bush was
a director of Harken Energy...
405
00:30:24,727 --> 00:30:26,771
...he received this memo
from company lawyers...
406
00:30:27,063 --> 00:30:29,399
...warning directors not to sell stock
if they had...
407
00:30:29,691 --> 00:30:31,776
...unfavorable information about
the company.
408
00:30:32,068 --> 00:30:36,197
One week later, he sold $848,000
worth of Harken stock.
409
00:30:36,489 --> 00:30:40,242
Two months later, Harken announced
losses of more than $23 million.
410
00:30:40,617 --> 00:30:42,869
The James Baker law partner
who helped Bush...
411
00:30:43,161 --> 00:30:45,080
...beat the rap from the SEC...
412
00:30:45,372 --> 00:30:47,916
...was a man by the name
of Robert Jordan...
413
00:30:48,208 --> 00:30:50,793
...who, when George W. became
president...
414
00:30:51,085 --> 00:30:55,256
...was appointed ambassador
to Saudi Arabia.
415
00:30:58,467 --> 00:31:02,722
After the Harken debacle, the friends
of Bush's dad got him a seat...
416
00:31:03,014 --> 00:31:07,226
...on another board, of a company
owned by the Carlyle Group.
417
00:31:07,518 --> 00:31:09,979
We looked at which companies gained
from September 11th.
418
00:31:13,065 --> 00:31:16,360
We turned up this company, Carlyle
Group, a multinational conglomerate...
419
00:31:16,652 --> 00:31:19,322
...that invests in heavily
government-regulated industries...
420
00:31:19,613 --> 00:31:24,618
...Like telecommunications, health care
and particularly, defense.
421
00:31:24,910 --> 00:31:27,747
Both George W. Bush
and George H.W. Bush...
422
00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:31,125
...worked for the Carlyle Group,
the same company that counted...
423
00:31:31,417 --> 00:31:34,045
...the bin Laden family among
its investors.
424
00:31:35,129 --> 00:31:38,174
The Carlyle Group was holding
its annual investor conference...
425
00:31:38,466 --> 00:31:40,176
...on the morning
of September 11th...
426
00:31:40,468 --> 00:31:42,720
...in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
in Washington DC.
427
00:31:43,012 --> 00:31:47,558
At that meeting were
all of the Carlyle regulars...
428
00:31:47,850 --> 00:31:51,227
...James Baker, likely John Major,
definitely George H.W. Bush...
429
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:53,938
...though he left the morning
of September 11th.
430
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:58,068
Shafiq bin Laden, who is
Osama bin Laden's half brother...
431
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,739
...was in town to look after his family's
investments in the Carlyle Group.
432
00:32:04,031 --> 00:32:05,991
All of them together in one room,
watching...
433
00:32:06,283 --> 00:32:09,411
...as the planes hit the towers.
434
00:32:09,703 --> 00:32:11,622
In fact, the bin Laden family
was invested...
435
00:32:11,914 --> 00:32:15,542
...in one of their defense funds,
which ironically meant...
436
00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:21,673
...that as the US. increased defense
spending, the bin Laden family...
437
00:32:21,965 --> 00:32:25,094
...stood to gain from those investments
through the Carlyle Group.
438
00:32:25,386 --> 00:32:30,307
Our commander in chief,
President George W. Bush.
439
00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:32,684
With all the weapons companies
it owned...
440
00:32:32,976 --> 00:32:35,604
...the Carlyle Group was, in essence,
the 11th largest...
441
00:32:35,896 --> 00:32:38,649
...defense contractor
in the United States.
442
00:32:38,941 --> 00:32:42,361
-Thanks a lot.
-It owned United Defense...
443
00:32:42,653 --> 00:32:45,906
...makers of the Bradley armored
fighting vehicle.
444
00:32:46,198 --> 00:32:49,701
September 11th guaranteed that
United Defense...
445
00:32:49,993 --> 00:32:52,996
...was going to have
a very good year.
446
00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:57,625
Just six weeks after 9/11
447
00:32:57,917 --> 00:33:00,710
...Carlyle filed to take
United Defense public...
448
00:33:01,002 --> 00:33:02,921
...and made a one-day profit
of $237 million.
449
00:33:07,801 --> 00:33:09,677
But sadly, with so much attention
focused...
450
00:33:09,969 --> 00:33:13,389
...on the bin Laden family being
important Carlyle investors...
451
00:33:13,681 --> 00:33:16,183
...the bin Ladens eventually
had to withdraw.
452
00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:19,311
Bush's dad, though, stayed on
as senior adviser...
453
00:33:19,603 --> 00:33:23,148
...to Carlyle's Asia board
for another two years.
454
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:29,320
As unseemly as it seems
to know that George H.W. Bush...
455
00:33:29,612 --> 00:33:31,781
...was meeting
with the bin Laden family...
456
00:33:32,073 --> 00:33:38,371
...while Osama was a wanted terrorist,
well before September 11th...
457
00:33:39,663 --> 00:33:43,083
...it's very discomforting
for Americans to know that.
458
00:33:43,375 --> 00:33:47,921
George H.W. Bush is a man who
has, obviously, incredible reach...
459
00:33:48,213 --> 00:33:49,589
...into the White House.
460
00:33:50,173 --> 00:33:55,136
He receives daily CIA briefings,
which is the right of any ex-president...
461
00:33:55,428 --> 00:33:59,640
...but very few ex-presidents
actually exercise that right. He does.
462
00:33:59,932 --> 00:34:04,312
And, I think, in a very real way they
are benefiting from the confusion...
463
00:34:04,604 --> 00:34:07,732
...that arises when George H.W. Bush
visits Saudi Arabia...
464
00:34:08,024 --> 00:34:11,694
...on behalf of Carlyle
and meets with the royal family...
465
00:34:11,986 --> 00:34:14,197
...and meets
with the bin Laden family.
466
00:34:14,489 --> 00:34:17,116
Is he representing the United States
of America?
467
00:34:17,408 --> 00:34:20,870
Or is he representing an investment
firm in the United States?
468
00:34:21,162 --> 00:34:22,914
Or is he representing both?
469
00:34:23,206 --> 00:34:26,501
This company is about money,
not conspiracies to run the world...
470
00:34:26,792 --> 00:34:31,047
...or engineer political maneuvering
and things like that.
471
00:34:31,339 --> 00:34:34,425
It's about making money,
and it's about making a lot of money.
472
00:34:34,717 --> 00:34:37,011
And they've done very well.
473
00:34:38,095 --> 00:34:40,306
I could get you on-the-record
on this question.
474
00:34:42,891 --> 00:34:45,810
In the White House view,
there is no ethical conflict...
475
00:34:46,102 --> 00:34:50,899
...in former President Bush and
former Secretary of State Jim Baker...
476
00:34:51,191 --> 00:34:54,110
...using their contacts
with world leaders to represent...
477
00:34:54,402 --> 00:34:59,241
...one of the most well-known military
arms dealers, the Carlyle Group?
478
00:34:59,533 --> 00:35:04,120
The president has full faith
that his family will conform...
479
00:35:04,412 --> 00:35:08,165
...with all proper ethics laws
and will act properly in their conduct.
480
00:35:08,457 --> 00:35:12,294
Okay, let's say one group of people,
like the American people...
481
00:35:12,586 --> 00:35:15,714
...pay you $400,000 a year
to be president of the United States.
482
00:35:17,550 --> 00:35:20,970
But then another group of people
invest in you, your friends...
483
00:35:21,262 --> 00:35:25,933
...and their related businesses,
$1.4 billion over a number of years.
484
00:35:26,225 --> 00:35:28,852
Who are you gonna like?
Who's your daddy?
485
00:35:29,478 --> 00:35:32,356
That's how much the Saudi royals
and their associates...
486
00:35:32,648 --> 00:35:38,279
...have given the Bush family, their
friends and their related businesses...
487
00:35:38,571 --> 00:35:40,155
...in the past three decades.
488
00:35:40,447 --> 00:35:42,783
Seems like a very nice reunion
with friends.
489
00:35:43,075 --> 00:35:45,536
Is it rude to suggest
that when the Bush family...
490
00:35:45,828 --> 00:35:48,497
...wakes up in the morning,
they might be thinking...
491
00:35:48,789 --> 00:35:53,669
...about what's best for the Saudis
instead of what's best for you or me?
492
00:35:54,295 --> 00:35:58,132
Because 1.4 billion just doesn't buy
a lot of flights out of the country.
493
00:35:58,424 --> 00:36:00,509
It buys a lot of love.
494
00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:54,772
Sooner or later,
this special relationship...
495
00:36:55,064 --> 00:36:57,816
...with a regime that Amnesty
International condemns...
496
00:36:58,108 --> 00:37:00,527
...as a widespread human-rights
violator...
497
00:37:00,819 --> 00:37:02,446
...would come back to haunt
the Bushes.
498
00:37:04,573 --> 00:37:06,492
Now, after 9/11, it was
an embarrassment.
499
00:37:06,784 --> 00:37:10,161
And they preferred that no one
ask any questions.
500
00:37:10,453 --> 00:37:12,622
Investigation should have begun
on September 12th.
501
00:37:14,582 --> 00:37:17,335
There's no reason it shouldn't have.
Three thousand were dead.
502
00:37:17,627 --> 00:37:20,004
It should've gotten started
immediately.
503
00:37:20,296 --> 00:37:22,590
First, Bush tried to stop Congress
from setting up...
504
00:37:24,384 --> 00:37:27,761
-...its own 9/11 investigation.
-It's important for us...
505
00:37:28,637 --> 00:37:30,889
...to not reveal how
we collect information.
506
00:37:31,181 --> 00:37:34,184
That's what the enemy wants.
And we're fighting an enemy.
507
00:37:34,476 --> 00:37:37,312
When he couldn't stop Congress,
he then tried to stop...
508
00:37:37,604 --> 00:37:40,524
...an independent 9/11 commission
from being formed.
509
00:37:40,816 --> 00:37:42,984
The president's position was a break
from history.
510
00:37:43,276 --> 00:37:46,071
Independent investigations were
launched after Pearl Harbor...
511
00:37:46,363 --> 00:37:48,115
...and President Kennedy's
assassination.
512
00:37:48,407 --> 00:37:51,159
But when Congress did complete
its own investigation...
513
00:37:51,451 --> 00:37:54,496
...the Bush White House
censored 28 pages of the report.
514
00:37:54,788 --> 00:37:58,541
The president is being pressed
by all sides to declassify the report.
515
00:37:58,833 --> 00:38:01,626
US. officials tell NBC News
most of the secret sources...
516
00:38:01,918 --> 00:38:03,461
...involve Saudi Arabia.
517
00:38:03,753 --> 00:38:09,342
We've given extraordinary cooperation
with Chairmen Kean and Hamilton.
518
00:38:09,634 --> 00:38:11,510
We haven't gotten the materials
we needed...
519
00:38:13,302 --> 00:38:15,346
...and haven't gotten them
in a timely fashion.
520
00:38:15,638 --> 00:38:17,514
Will you testify
before the commission?
521
00:38:17,806 --> 00:38:22,060
This commission? You know, I don't--
Testify? I'd be glad to visit with them.
522
00:38:22,352 --> 00:38:25,772
What it will do is, the hole
that's in my heart...
523
00:38:26,064 --> 00:38:28,275
...and has been in my heart
since September 11th--
524
00:38:30,402 --> 00:38:35,991
I lost my husband of 15 years.
I am now by myself.
525
00:38:37,617 --> 00:38:40,495
I need to know what happened
to him.
526
00:38:41,288 --> 00:38:46,710
I know what I got back
from the autopsy.
527
00:38:47,002 --> 00:38:51,465
That man was my life,
and I have no plan.
528
00:38:51,757 --> 00:38:54,550
I was taking a class,
and they asked me...
529
00:38:54,842 --> 00:38:57,136
...what was I gonna do in the next
five years.
530
00:38:57,428 --> 00:39:00,931
And if I'm not doing something
with this, I don't know what reason...
531
00:39:01,223 --> 00:39:04,727
...I have to live.
So it's very important.
532
00:39:05,603 --> 00:39:09,023
Very important. Okay.
533
00:39:09,774 --> 00:39:11,192
Okay.
534
00:39:12,692 --> 00:39:14,694
Ignored by the Bush administration...
535
00:39:14,986 --> 00:39:17,906
...more than 500 relatives
of 9/11 victims...
536
00:39:18,198 --> 00:39:21,367
...filed suit against Saudi royals
and others.
537
00:39:21,659 --> 00:39:23,953
The lawyers the Saudi
defense minister hired...
538
00:39:24,245 --> 00:39:26,121
...to fight the 9/11 families?
539
00:39:26,413 --> 00:39:31,710
The law firm of Bush family confidant,
James A. Baker.
540
00:39:32,002 --> 00:39:35,464
So right here in the center of three
important American landmarks...
541
00:39:35,756 --> 00:39:39,176
...the Watergate Hotel
and office building...
542
00:39:39,468 --> 00:39:41,720
...the Kennedy Center over there...
543
00:39:42,012 --> 00:39:46,391
...and the embassy of Saudi Arabia.
544
00:39:46,809 --> 00:39:47,976
Yeah.
545
00:39:48,268 --> 00:39:51,772
How much money do the Saudis
have invested in America, roughly?
546
00:39:52,064 --> 00:39:55,859
I've heard figures as high
as $860 billion.
547
00:39:56,151 --> 00:39:59,029
-Eight hundred and sixty billion?
-Billion.
548
00:39:59,321 --> 00:40:01,657
-That's a lot of money.
-A lot, yeah.
549
00:40:01,949 --> 00:40:06,411
And what percentage of our economy
does that represent?
550
00:40:06,703 --> 00:40:07,871
It seems like a lot.
551
00:40:08,163 --> 00:40:11,834
Well, in terms of investments
on Wall Street in American equities...
552
00:40:12,125 --> 00:40:15,670
...it's roughly 6 or 7 percent
ofAmerica.
553
00:40:15,962 --> 00:40:18,381
They own a fairly good slice
of America.
554
00:40:18,673 --> 00:40:21,592
Most of that money goes into
the great blue-chip companies.
555
00:40:21,884 --> 00:40:25,721
Citigroup, Citibank,
the largest stockholder is a Saudi.
556
00:40:26,013 --> 00:40:29,558
AOL-Time Warner has
big Saudi investors.
557
00:40:29,850 --> 00:40:32,853
So I read where, like, the Saudis have
a trillion dollars...
558
00:40:33,144 --> 00:40:36,022
...in our banks of their money.
What would happen...
559
00:40:36,314 --> 00:40:38,190
...if they pulled that trillion out?
560
00:40:38,482 --> 00:40:41,902
A trillion dollars? That would be
an enormous blow to the economy.
561
00:40:42,736 --> 00:40:44,905
Can I speak to you for a moment,
please, sit?
562
00:40:45,197 --> 00:40:47,491
-How are you doing?
-Good, how you doing?
563
00:40:47,783 --> 00:40:51,662
Steve Kimball with the Secret Service.
We're just ascertaining information.
564
00:40:51,954 --> 00:40:54,832
Are you doing a documentary
on the Saudi Arabian Embassy?
565
00:40:55,124 --> 00:40:59,003
No. I am doing a documentary,
and part of it is about Saudi Arabia.
566
00:40:59,295 --> 00:41:01,839
Even though we were nowhere near
the White House...
567
00:41:02,131 --> 00:41:05,759
...the Secret Service had shown up
to ask us what we were doing...
568
00:41:06,051 --> 00:41:08,345
...standing across the street
from the Saudi Embassy.
569
00:41:08,637 --> 00:41:11,181
-We're not here to cause any trouble.
-Okay.
570
00:41:11,891 --> 00:41:13,934
-You know. Is that--?
-No, that's fine.
571
00:41:14,226 --> 00:41:17,104
We just wanted to get
some information as far as--
572
00:41:17,396 --> 00:41:18,731
What's going on, yeah.
573
00:41:19,023 --> 00:41:22,109
I didn't realize the Secret Service
guards foreign embassies.
574
00:41:22,401 --> 00:41:25,279
-Not usually, no, sir.
-No. Do they give you any trouble?
575
00:41:25,571 --> 00:41:28,449
-Saudis?
-No comment on that.
576
00:41:28,741 --> 00:41:30,409
Okay, I'll take that as a yes.
577
00:41:30,701 --> 00:41:31,952
Good. Thank you very much.
578
00:41:32,244 --> 00:41:34,788
It turns out that Saudi Prince Bandar
is perhaps...
579
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,249
...the best-protected ambassador
in the US.
580
00:41:37,541 --> 00:41:41,545
The US. State Department provides
him with a six-man security detail.
581
00:41:41,837 --> 00:41:44,632
Considering how he and his family
and the Saudi elite...
582
00:41:44,924 --> 00:41:49,929
...own 7 percent of America,
it's probably not a bad idea.
583
00:41:51,429 --> 00:41:53,598
Prince Bandar was so close
to the Bushes...
584
00:41:53,890 --> 00:41:56,184
...they considered him a member
of the family.
585
00:41:56,476 --> 00:41:59,645
They even had a nickname for him:
Bandar Bush.
586
00:41:59,937 --> 00:42:04,191
Two nights after September 11th,
George Bush invited Bandar Bush...
587
00:42:04,483 --> 00:42:08,487
...over to the White House
for a private dinner and a talk.
588
00:42:08,779 --> 00:42:11,281
Even though bin Laden
was a Saudi...
589
00:42:11,573 --> 00:42:14,284
...and Saudi money
had funded all Qaeda...
590
00:42:14,576 --> 00:42:18,121
...and 15 of the 19 hijackers
were Saudis...
591
00:42:18,455 --> 00:42:22,125
...here was the Saudi ambassador,
casually dining with the president...
592
00:42:22,417 --> 00:42:24,711
...on September 13th.
593
00:42:25,462 --> 00:42:28,047
What were they talking about?
594
00:42:28,339 --> 00:42:32,343
Were they commiserating
or comparing notes?
595
00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,553
Why would Bandar's government...
596
00:42:36,096 --> 00:42:39,349
...block American investigators
from talking to the relatives...
597
00:42:39,641 --> 00:42:42,018
...of the 15 hijackers?
598
00:42:43,812 --> 00:42:45,981
Why would Saudi Arabia
become reluctant...
599
00:42:46,272 --> 00:42:48,358
...to freeze the hijackers' assets?
600
00:42:52,111 --> 00:42:54,696
The two of them walked out
on the Truman Balcony...
601
00:42:54,988 --> 00:42:58,365
...So that Bandar could smoke a cigar
and have a drink.
602
00:42:58,865 --> 00:43:04,579
In the distance, across the Potomac,
was the Pentagon, partially in ruins.
603
00:43:04,871 --> 00:43:08,875
I wonder if Mr. Bush
told Prince Bandar not to worry...
604
00:43:09,167 --> 00:43:12,754
...because he already had a plan
in motion.
605
00:43:13,213 --> 00:43:13,714
You come in September 12th...
606
00:43:14,047 --> 00:43:14,965
You come in September 12th...
607
00:43:16,925 --> 00:43:20,302
...to plot our response to al Qaeda.
Let me talk about the response...
608
00:43:20,594 --> 00:43:22,888
...you got from top administration
officials.
609
00:43:23,180 --> 00:43:25,474
On that day, what did the president
say to you?
610
00:43:25,766 --> 00:43:29,979
The president, in a very intimidating
way, left me and my staff...
611
00:43:30,271 --> 00:43:33,107
...with the clear indication
he wanted us to come back...
612
00:43:33,399 --> 00:43:36,318
...with the word that there was
an Iraqi hand behind 9/11.
613
00:43:36,610 --> 00:43:40,239
They planned to do something about
Iraq before they came into office.
614
00:43:40,531 --> 00:43:43,284
Did he ask about any other nations
other than Iraq?
615
00:43:43,576 --> 00:43:46,871
No, not at all. It was, "Iraq, Saddam,
find out, get back to me."
616
00:43:47,163 --> 00:43:49,623
Were his questions more about Iraq
than al Qaeda?
617
00:43:49,915 --> 00:43:52,043
Absolutely. He didn't ask me
about al Qaeda.
618
00:43:52,334 --> 00:43:55,212
And the reaction you got from
the defense secretary, Rumsfeld...
619
00:43:55,504 --> 00:43:57,757
...from his assistant, Paul Wolfowitz?
620
00:43:58,049 --> 00:44:00,426
Donald Rumsfeld said--
When we talked about bombing...
621
00:44:00,718 --> 00:44:02,762
...the al Qaeda infrastructure
in Afghanistan...
622
00:44:03,054 --> 00:44:05,473
...he said, "There are
no good targets in Afghanistan.
623
00:44:05,765 --> 00:44:06,891
Let's bomb Iraq
624
00:44:07,183 --> 00:44:09,768
And we said, "But Iraq had nothing
to do with this."
625
00:44:10,060 --> 00:44:12,853
That didn't make much difference.
The reason they had...
626
00:44:13,145 --> 00:44:16,774
...to do Afghanistan first was, it was
obvious al Qaeda attacked us.
627
00:44:17,066 --> 00:44:19,859
And it was obvious that al Qaeda
was in Afghanistan.
628
00:44:20,151 --> 00:44:23,528
Americans wouldn't stand by
if we'd done nothing on Afghanistan.
629
00:44:39,294 --> 00:44:42,047
The United States began bombing
Afghanistan...
630
00:44:42,339 --> 00:44:45,801
...just four weeks after 9/11.
Mr. Bush said he was doing so...
631
00:44:46,093 --> 00:44:48,637
...because the Taliban government
of Afghanistan...
632
00:44:48,929 --> 00:44:51,306
...had been harboring bin Laden.
633
00:44:52,390 --> 00:44:54,058
We will smoke them
out of their holes.
634
00:44:54,350 --> 00:44:55,601
We're gonna smoke them out.
635
00:44:55,893 --> 00:44:59,772
-We'll smoke him out of his cave.
-Let's rush them and smoke them out.
636
00:45:00,064 --> 00:45:04,652
For all his tough talk,
Bush really didn't do much.
637
00:45:04,944 --> 00:45:07,822
Well, what they did was slow
and small.
638
00:45:08,114 --> 00:45:11,033
They put only 11,000 troops
into Afghanistan.
639
00:45:11,325 --> 00:45:13,285
There are more police here
in Manhattan.
640
00:45:13,577 --> 00:45:16,872
More in Manhattan than there are
US. troops in Afghanistan.
641
00:45:17,164 --> 00:45:21,001
The president botched the response.
He should have gone after bin Laden.
642
00:45:21,293 --> 00:45:24,922
The US. Special Forces didn't get into
the area where bin Laden was...
643
00:45:25,214 --> 00:45:28,676
-...for two months.
-Two months?
644
00:45:28,968 --> 00:45:31,387
A mass murderer who attacked
the United States...
645
00:45:31,679 --> 00:45:34,056
...was given a two-month head start?
646
00:45:34,348 --> 00:45:36,892
Who in their right mind
would do that?
647
00:45:37,184 --> 00:45:39,812
-Dang! Anybody say "nice shot"?
-Nice shot.
648
00:45:40,104 --> 00:45:41,522
Hell of a shot.
649
00:45:41,814 --> 00:45:45,401
Or was the war in Afghanistan
really about something else?
650
00:45:45,693 --> 00:45:49,070
Perhaps the answer
was in Houston, Texas.
651
00:45:51,781 --> 00:45:55,534
In 1997, while George W. Bush
was governor of Texas...
652
00:45:55,826 --> 00:45:59,955
...a delegation of Taliban leaders
from Afghanistan flew to Houston...
653
00:46:00,247 --> 00:46:02,166
...to meet with Unocal executives...
654
00:46:02,457 --> 00:46:05,669
...to discuss the building of a pipeline
through Afghanistan...
655
00:46:05,961 --> 00:46:08,839
...bringing natural gas
from the Caspian Sea.
656
00:46:09,131 --> 00:46:11,508
And who got a Caspian Sea
drilling contract...
657
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,553
...the same day Unocal
signed the pipeline deal?
658
00:46:14,845 --> 00:46:18,598
A company headed by a man
named Dick Cheney. Halliburton.
659
00:46:18,890 --> 00:46:20,933
From the point of view
of the US. government...
660
00:46:22,601 --> 00:46:24,311
...this was kind of a magic pipeline...
661
00:46:24,603 --> 00:46:26,812
...because it could serve
SO many purposes.
662
00:46:27,104 --> 00:46:30,357
And who else stood to benefit
from the pipeline?
663
00:46:30,649 --> 00:46:33,861
Bush's number-one campaign
contributor, Kenneth Lay...
664
00:46:34,153 --> 00:46:36,488
...and the good people of Enron.
665
00:46:38,490 --> 00:46:40,659
Only the British press
covered this trip.
666
00:46:41,118 --> 00:46:44,663
Then in 2001, just five and a half
months before 9/11
667
00:46:46,331 --> 00:46:48,708
...the Bush administration welcomed
a Taliban envoy...
668
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,418
...to tour the United States...
669
00:46:50,710 --> 00:46:53,463
...to help improve the image
of the Taliban government.
670
00:46:53,755 --> 00:46:57,217
You have imprisoned the women.
It's a horror, let me tell you.
671
00:46:57,508 --> 00:47:00,677
I'm sorry to your husband. He must
have a difficult time with you.
672
00:47:00,969 --> 00:47:03,680
Here is the Taliban official
visiting our State Department...
673
00:47:05,307 --> 00:47:06,934
...to meet with US. officials.
674
00:47:07,809 --> 00:47:10,978
Why would the Bush administration
allow a Taliban leader...
675
00:47:11,270 --> 00:47:14,190
...to visit the United States,
knowing that the Taliban...
676
00:47:14,482 --> 00:47:17,651
...were harboring the man
who bombed the USS. Cole...
677
00:47:17,943 --> 00:47:20,403
...and our African embassies?
678
00:47:20,695 --> 00:47:24,199
Well, I guess 9/11 put a stop to that.
679
00:47:24,491 --> 00:47:27,369
When the invasion ofAfghanistan
was complete...
680
00:47:27,661 --> 00:47:30,872
...we installed its new president,
Hamid Karzai.
681
00:47:31,164 --> 00:47:33,416
Who was Hamid Karzai?
682
00:47:33,708 --> 00:47:37,045
He was a former adviser to Unocal.
683
00:47:37,337 --> 00:47:40,215
Bush also appointed,
as our envoy to Afghanistan...
684
00:47:40,507 --> 00:47:45,929
...Zalmay Khalilzad, who was also
a former Unocal adviser.
685
00:47:47,055 --> 00:47:50,725
I guess you can probably see
where this is leading.
686
00:47:51,017 --> 00:47:54,145
Faster than you can say, "Black gold,
Texas tea," Afghanistan signed...
687
00:47:54,437 --> 00:47:56,731
...an agreement with her
neighboring countries...
688
00:47:57,023 --> 00:48:02,028
...to build a pipeline carrying
natural gas from the Caspian Sea.
689
00:48:02,612 --> 00:48:04,531
Oh, and the Taliban?
690
00:48:05,532 --> 00:48:07,951
Oh, they mostly got away.
691
00:48:08,576 --> 00:48:11,745
As did Osama bin Laden
and most of al Qaeda.
692
00:48:12,329 --> 00:48:14,873
Terror is bigger than one person.
693
00:48:15,165 --> 00:48:19,336
And he's a person who's now
been marginalized.
694
00:48:19,628 --> 00:48:21,004
So I! don't know where he is.
695
00:48:21,296 --> 00:48:24,507
I just don't spend that much time
on him, to be honest with you.
696
00:48:24,799 --> 00:48:28,636
Didn't spend much time on him?
What kind of president was he?
697
00:48:29,012 --> 00:48:32,724
I'm a war president. I make decisions
here in the Oval Office...
698
00:48:33,016 --> 00:48:36,227
...in foreign policy matters
with war on my mind.
699
00:48:36,894 --> 00:48:40,315
With the war in Afghanistan over
and bin Laden forgotten...
700
00:48:40,606 --> 00:48:43,067
...the war president had
a new target:
701
00:48:44,735 --> 00:48:47,279
The American people.
702
00:48:50,615 --> 00:48:54,119
We've got an unusual terror warning
from the feds to tell you about.
703
00:48:54,411 --> 00:48:56,330
Fox News has obtained
an FBI bulletin...
704
00:48:56,621 --> 00:49:00,000
...that warns terrorists could use
pen guns, like in James Bond...
705
00:49:00,292 --> 00:49:02,210
-...filled with poison.
-Good evening.
706
00:49:02,502 --> 00:49:05,922
America is on high alert tonight,
just four days before Christmas.
707
00:49:06,214 --> 00:49:10,552
-A possible terror threat.
-As bad as or worse than 9/11.
708
00:49:10,844 --> 00:49:14,306
But where? How?
There's nothing specific to report.
709
00:49:14,598 --> 00:49:18,435
Be on the lookout for model airplanes
packed with explosives.
710
00:49:20,227 --> 00:49:23,689
The FBI is warning ferries may be
considered particularly at risk...
711
00:49:23,981 --> 00:49:25,816
...for hijacking.
712
00:49:27,108 --> 00:49:30,236
Could these cattle be a target
for terrorists?
713
00:49:32,447 --> 00:49:33,907
-Fear works.
-Fear does work, yes.
714
00:49:36,951 --> 00:49:38,745
You can make people do anything
if they're afraid.
715
00:49:39,037 --> 00:49:40,663
And how do you make them afraid?
716
00:49:40,955 --> 00:49:46,503
Well, you make them afraid
by creating an aura of endless threat.
717
00:49:46,795 --> 00:49:48,295
They played us like an organ.
718
00:49:48,587 --> 00:49:53,342
They raised the orange, up to red,
then they dropped it back to orange.
719
00:49:53,634 --> 00:49:57,513
I mean, they gave these mixed
messages, which were crazy-making.
720
00:49:57,805 --> 00:50:01,100
The world is changed
after September the 11th.
721
00:50:01,392 --> 00:50:03,601
It's changed because
we're no longer safe.
722
00:50:03,893 --> 00:50:07,980
Fly and enjoy America's
great destination spots.
723
00:50:08,272 --> 00:50:11,192
We have entered what may
prove to be the most dangerous...
724
00:50:11,484 --> 00:50:13,569
...security environment
the world's known.
725
00:50:13,861 --> 00:50:16,238
Take your families and enjoy life.
726
00:50:16,530 --> 00:50:18,657
Terrorists are doing everything
they can...
727
00:50:18,949 --> 00:50:21,118
...to gain even deadlier means
of striking us.
728
00:50:21,743 --> 00:50:25,496
-Go down to Disney World in Florida.
-It's like training a dog.
729
00:50:25,788 --> 00:50:29,500
You tell him sit down and roll over
at the same time, dog doesn't know...
730
00:50:29,792 --> 00:50:32,753
...what to do. American people
were being treated like that.
731
00:50:33,045 --> 00:50:37,800
It was very, very skillfully and ugly,
in what they did.
732
00:50:38,092 --> 00:50:40,428
We must stop the terror.
733
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:47,017
I call upon all nations to do everything
they can to stop these terrorist killers.
734
00:50:47,810 --> 00:50:49,353
Thank you.
735
00:50:49,645 --> 00:50:50,729
Now watch this drive.
736
00:50:53,649 --> 00:50:55,443
All right. You give me another one.
737
00:50:55,860 --> 00:51:00,823
They will continue, in my view, as long
as this administration is in charge...
738
00:51:01,115 --> 00:51:05,244
...of every once in a while,
stimulating everybody to be afraid.
739
00:51:05,536 --> 00:51:06,828
Just in case you forgot.
740
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,332
It's not gonna go down to green
or blue. It's never gonna get there.
741
00:51:11,624 --> 00:51:14,919
There clearly is no way
that anyone...
742
00:51:15,211 --> 00:51:18,380
...can live constantly on edge
like that.
743
00:51:18,672 --> 00:51:20,340
The reality facing
American families...
744
00:51:22,008 --> 00:51:24,010
...is they're not as safe
as they used to be.
745
00:51:24,302 --> 00:51:26,762
Drug dealers and users looking
for their next fix.
746
00:51:27,054 --> 00:51:29,974
Gangs who roam the streets
in search of their next victim.
747
00:51:30,266 --> 00:51:33,769
And the growing threat of terrorists
means the need for protection...
748
00:51:34,061 --> 00:51:37,148
...is ever greater.
And now that protection is here.
749
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,694
Zytech Engineering, LLC has
developed and tested a safe room...
750
00:51:41,986 --> 00:51:44,864
...finally affordable to the average
American citizen.
751
00:51:45,156 --> 00:51:48,784
Protection formerly obtainable
only by the wealthy or powerful.
752
00:51:49,076 --> 00:51:52,538
Heck, you can be sitting in here,
drinking your finest Bordeaux...
753
00:51:52,830 --> 00:51:56,876
...and enjoying life, while chaos
is erupting outside.
754
00:51:57,335 --> 00:52:00,338
Every family in America
should prepare itself...
755
00:52:00,630 --> 00:52:02,298
...for a terrorist attack.
756
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,302
Now to escaping from a skyscraper.
John Rivers is the CEO...
757
00:52:06,594 --> 00:52:10,765
...of the Executive Chute Corporation.
Good morning to you, John.
758
00:52:11,057 --> 00:52:14,018
-Good morning, Matt.
-Tell me about the product.
759
00:52:14,310 --> 00:52:18,271
It's an emergency escape chute.
It's an option of last resort.
760
00:52:18,563 --> 00:52:20,482
How high do you have to be
in the building...
761
00:52:20,774 --> 00:52:23,276
...for that chute to actually
take effect?
762
00:52:23,568 --> 00:52:26,279
You only have to be on the 10th floor
or above.
763
00:52:26,571 --> 00:52:28,447
They can put this on themselves?
764
00:52:28,739 --> 00:52:31,033
Right. They can put this on
themselves in as easy...
765
00:52:31,325 --> 00:52:34,328
...as about 30 seconds.
It's real easy to put on.
766
00:52:34,828 --> 00:52:36,080
-Here.
-Sorry.
767
00:52:36,372 --> 00:52:39,792
That's okay. Real easy to put on,
but...
768
00:52:41,043 --> 00:52:44,212
When you first get this chute,
you're gonna wanna put it on...
769
00:52:44,504 --> 00:52:48,132
-...and try it on a few times yourself.
-Jaime's having trouble putting that on.
770
00:52:48,424 --> 00:52:52,720
Is this something that you honestly
think, in a moment of panic...
771
00:52:53,012 --> 00:52:56,181
...that someone can operate
properly?
772
00:52:56,473 --> 00:52:59,977
Oh, yeah. It is. This is actually--
Jamie's probably never...
773
00:53:00,269 --> 00:53:02,396
...put this thing on before in her life.
774
00:53:03,272 --> 00:53:05,857
It's okay. It's something that,
when you get it...
775
00:53:06,149 --> 00:53:08,443
...you're gonna wanna put it on
several times.
776
00:53:08,735 --> 00:53:12,280
Despite the raising of the terror alert
level, residents here continue...
777
00:53:12,572 --> 00:53:14,240
...with their Christmas errands.
778
00:53:14,532 --> 00:53:17,660
Frances and her family do some
last-minute holiday shopping...
779
00:53:17,952 --> 00:53:20,288
...knowing al Qaeda is planning
to attack.
780
00:53:20,580 --> 00:53:23,583
She says being in Saginaw doesn't
make her feel any safer...
781
00:53:23,874 --> 00:53:25,793
...than if she was in New York City.
782
00:53:26,085 --> 00:53:27,211
Midland is close by...
783
00:53:28,879 --> 00:53:30,798
...and I said,
"Detroit's not that far away "
784
00:53:31,090 --> 00:53:34,969
I said, "That could be something--
And Flint could be something-- Be...
785
00:53:35,261 --> 00:53:38,054
-...concerns for people around here."
-You never know...
786
00:53:38,346 --> 00:53:40,265
...where they're gonna hit.
Never know.
787
00:53:40,557 --> 00:53:43,560
But one potential target specifically
mentioned by the terrorists...
788
00:53:43,852 --> 00:53:48,106
...has security officials baffled.
It's tiny Tappahannock, Virginia...
789
00:53:48,398 --> 00:53:49,941
...population, 2016.
790
00:53:50,233 --> 00:53:53,236
Such an attack could generate
widespread fear...
791
00:53:53,528 --> 00:53:58,825
...that even here in rural, small-town
America, no one is entirely safe.
792
00:54:00,452 --> 00:54:02,829
On the news there was
an alert in Tappahannock.
793
00:54:03,288 --> 00:54:06,041
-What did the FBI tell you?
-Well, they contacted me by phone.
794
00:54:07,751 --> 00:54:10,462
Basically let me know about this,
were it Tappahannock.
795
00:54:10,754 --> 00:54:14,424
-That's how it started.
-In the so-called chatter they pick up...
796
00:54:14,716 --> 00:54:18,053
...they wasn't sure Tappahannock.
There's a Rappahannock County...
797
00:54:18,345 --> 00:54:21,138
-...Rappahannock River.
-There is a Rappahannock--
798
00:54:21,430 --> 00:54:23,891
A place called Rappahannock.
They got it mixed up.
799
00:54:24,683 --> 00:54:27,060
This is Tappahannock,
not Rappahannock.
800
00:54:27,352 --> 00:54:30,355
-Is there any target around here?
-Not that we can think of.
801
00:54:30,647 --> 00:54:32,398
-It can happen anywhere.
-WaI-Mart.
802
00:54:32,690 --> 00:54:34,566
A big spaghetti supper in here.
803
00:54:34,858 --> 00:54:36,026
WaI-Mart, probably.
804
00:54:36,318 --> 00:54:38,570
Do you feel extra suspicious
of outsiders?
805
00:54:38,862 --> 00:54:40,822
Oh, everybody does that.
806
00:54:41,114 --> 00:54:42,908
That's just something that happens.
807
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,536
When I look at certain people,
I wonder, "Oh, my goodness.
808
00:54:46,828 --> 00:54:48,872
Do you think they could be
a terrorist?"
809
00:54:49,164 --> 00:54:51,166
-Never know what's gonna happen.
-Right.
810
00:54:51,458 --> 00:54:52,834
It could happen right now.
811
00:54:53,835 --> 00:54:56,296
Never trust nobody you don't know.
812
00:54:57,172 --> 00:55:00,759
And even if you do know them,
you really can't trust them then.
813
00:55:01,218 --> 00:55:04,137
From Tappahannock
to Rappahannock...
814
00:55:04,429 --> 00:55:08,975
...to every town and village in
America, the people were afraid.
815
00:55:09,518 --> 00:55:11,895
And they turned to their leader
to protect them.
816
00:55:12,187 --> 00:55:15,356
But protect them from what?
817
00:55:40,881 --> 00:55:43,008
Meet John Ashcroft.
818
00:55:43,300 --> 00:55:47,638
In 2000, he was running for
re-election as senator for Missouri...
819
00:55:47,930 --> 00:55:51,976
...against a man who died
the month before the election.
820
00:55:52,268 --> 00:55:55,187
The voters preferred the dead guy.
821
00:55:55,479 --> 00:56:00,025
So George W. Bush made him
his attorney general.
822
00:56:00,317 --> 00:56:02,570
He was sworn in on a stack
of Bibles.
823
00:56:02,862 --> 00:56:04,864
Because when you can't beat
a dead guy...
824
00:56:05,156 --> 00:56:07,324
...you need all the help you can get.
825
00:56:07,616 --> 00:56:09,535
During the summer before 9/11...
826
00:56:09,827 --> 00:56:12,705
...Ashcroft told acting FBI director,
Thomas Pickard...
827
00:56:12,997 --> 00:56:16,584
...that he didn't want to hear
anything more about terrorist threats.
828
00:56:16,876 --> 00:56:21,005
Mr. Watson had come to you and said
that the CIA was very concerned...
829
00:56:21,297 --> 00:56:23,173
...that there would be an attack.
830
00:56:23,465 --> 00:56:27,719
You said that you told the attorney
general this fact repeatedly...
831
00:56:28,011 --> 00:56:29,887
...in these meetings. That correct?
832
00:56:30,179 --> 00:56:31,889
I've told him at least
on two occasions.
833
00:56:33,515 --> 00:56:36,100
And you told the staff,
according to this statement...
834
00:56:36,392 --> 00:56:40,938
...Mr. Ashcroft told you that he did not
want to hear about this anymore.
835
00:56:41,230 --> 00:56:43,815
-Is that correct?
-That is correct.
836
00:56:44,107 --> 00:56:47,402
His own FBI knew that summer
there were al Qaeda members...
837
00:56:47,694 --> 00:56:51,531
...in the US. and bin Laden was
sending his agents to flight schools...
838
00:56:51,823 --> 00:56:53,366
...around the country.
839
00:56:53,658 --> 00:56:57,037
ButAshcroft's Justice Department
turned a blind eye...
840
00:56:57,329 --> 00:56:58,705
...and a deaf ear.
841
00:56:58,997 --> 00:57:03,084
But after 9/11, John Ashcroft
had some brilliant ideas...
842
00:57:03,376 --> 00:57:05,212
...for how to protect America.
843
00:57:05,504 --> 00:57:08,048
The Patriot Act, adopted by Congress
and signed by Bush...
844
00:57:08,340 --> 00:57:09,924
...six weeks after the attacks...
845
00:57:10,216 --> 00:57:12,510
...has changed the way
the government does business.
846
00:57:12,802 --> 00:57:16,972
The Patriot Act allows for searches
of medical and financial records...
847
00:57:17,264 --> 00:57:19,308
...computer and telephone
conversations...
848
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,521
...even for the books you take out of
the library. But people we spoke to...
849
00:57:23,813 --> 00:57:27,024
...say they're willing to give up
liberties to fight terrorism.
850
00:57:27,316 --> 00:57:31,529
-Maybe that's a good thing.
-It's sad, but it has to be done.
851
00:57:31,821 --> 00:57:35,241
Yes, something needed to be done.
852
00:57:35,533 --> 00:57:38,786
These are the good people
who make up Peace Fresno.
853
00:57:39,078 --> 00:57:41,997
A community group
in Fresno, California.
854
00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:45,876
Unlike the rest of us,
they received an early lesson...
855
00:57:46,168 --> 00:57:48,796
...in what the Patriot Act is all about.
856
00:57:49,088 --> 00:57:53,300
Each week, they meet to discuss
matters of peace.
857
00:57:53,592 --> 00:57:58,848
They sit around, they share stories,
they eat cookies.
858
00:57:59,139 --> 00:58:01,600
Some have more than one.
859
00:58:02,684 --> 00:58:06,271
This is Aaron Stokes,
a member of Peace Fresno.
860
00:58:06,896 --> 00:58:08,439
The other members liked him.
861
00:58:08,731 --> 00:58:11,316
He had come to the meetings,
he went with us.
862
00:58:11,608 --> 00:58:15,445
We go out on Friday nights and stand
on a very busy corner in Fresno.
863
00:58:15,737 --> 00:58:18,740
And he had gone with us,
he had handed out fliers.
864
00:58:19,032 --> 00:58:23,036
He went with us in June
to a WTO protest.
865
00:58:23,328 --> 00:58:26,123
Then one day, Aaron didn't show up
to the meeting.
866
00:58:26,415 --> 00:58:29,626
My friend Dan and I were reading
the Sunday newspaper...
867
00:58:29,918 --> 00:58:33,463
...and when I picked up the paper,
in the local section...
868
00:58:33,755 --> 00:58:35,382
...Aaron's picture caught my eye.
869
00:58:35,674 --> 00:58:38,635
The article said that a sheriff's deputy
had been killed...
870
00:58:38,927 --> 00:58:42,306
...and I saw it had a name
that wasn't the right name...
871
00:58:42,598 --> 00:58:47,895
...that said that he was a member
of the sheriff's antiterrorism unit.
872
00:58:48,186 --> 00:58:49,396
That's right.
873
00:58:49,688 --> 00:58:52,149
The photo of the man
in the newspaper...
874
00:58:52,441 --> 00:58:55,652
...was not the Aaron Stokes
they had come to know.
875
00:58:55,944 --> 00:59:02,283
He was actually Deputy Aaron Kilner,
and he had infiltrated their group.
876
00:59:02,575 --> 00:59:05,160
Sheriff Pierce made it very clear
that, yes...
877
00:59:05,452 --> 00:59:08,413
...Aaron Kilner was assigned
to infiltrate Peace Fresno...
878
00:59:08,705 --> 00:59:11,833
...that he was able to infiltrate
organizations...
879
00:59:12,125 --> 00:59:13,752
...that are open to the public.
880
00:59:14,252 --> 00:59:16,880
You could understand why the police
needed to spy...
881
00:59:17,172 --> 00:59:18,798
...on a group like Peace Fresno.
882
00:59:19,215 --> 00:59:20,842
Just look at them.
883
00:59:21,926 --> 00:59:25,387
A gathering of terrorists
if I ever saw one.
884
00:59:26,138 --> 00:59:29,016
This is Barry Reingold,
a retired phone worker...
885
00:59:29,308 --> 00:59:31,727
from Oakland, California.
886
00:59:32,019 --> 00:59:34,855
Barry likes to work out in the gym.
887
00:59:35,147 --> 00:59:38,359
Somewhere between his cardio
and his strength training...
888
00:59:38,651 --> 00:59:41,028
...Barry got political.
889
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,823
We were up in the gym,
and it was after we were working out...
890
00:59:45,115 --> 00:59:48,868
...and a number of us were talking
about 9/11 and Afghanistan...
891
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:53,414
...and bin Laden, and someone said,
"Bin Laden's a real asshole...
892
00:59:53,706 --> 00:59:56,918
...for murdering those people
And I said, "Yeah, that's true.
893
00:59:57,210 --> 01:00:00,672
But he'll never be as big
an asshole as Bush...
894
01:00:00,964 --> 01:00:03,424
...who bombs all over the world
for oil profits."
895
01:00:03,716 --> 01:00:07,345
Barry didn't have to worry
about the police spying on him.
896
01:00:07,845 --> 01:00:11,474
His fellow weightlifters
were more than willing to turn him in.
897
01:00:11,766 --> 01:00:16,437
I was taking a nap, and I guess
it was 1:30, 2:00 in the afternoon.
898
01:00:16,729 --> 01:00:20,650
And they came to my place,
and I said, "Well, who's there?"
899
01:00:20,942 --> 01:00:25,738
And they said, "The FBI."
I said, "The FBI? Why are they here?"
900
01:00:26,030 --> 01:00:31,244
Yes, the FBI had come to see Barry.
And they weren't there to Jazzercise.
901
01:00:31,536 --> 01:00:37,291
The FBI said, "Have you been talking
to people about 9/11 and bin Laden...
902
01:00:37,583 --> 01:00:41,921
...and oil profits and Afghanistan?"
I said, "A lot of people are talking...
903
01:00:42,213 --> 01:00:43,881
...about these things."
904
01:00:44,173 --> 01:00:48,011
I feel my rights have been,
you know, trampled on.
905
01:00:48,302 --> 01:00:52,306
I mean, if you have something to say
to me in the gym, well, then, fine.
906
01:00:52,598 --> 01:00:57,561
Don't tell the FBI, and they come to
my apartment while I'm taking a nap.
907
01:00:57,853 --> 01:01:00,105
Nothing to be ashamed of.
There's full transparency.
908
01:01:02,024 --> 01:01:04,526
There's nothing about the Patriot Act
I am ashamed of...
909
01:01:04,818 --> 01:01:06,445
...in any way, shape or form.
910
01:01:06,737 --> 01:01:08,613
I have a 1-800 number. Call me.
911
01:01:10,281 --> 01:01:12,783
I'm the guy you call
if there's a violation or an abuse.
912
01:01:14,451 --> 01:01:16,745
If you've got a poster child on this,
I wanna see it.
913
01:01:17,037 --> 01:01:20,373
I'm hired by the people to provide
oversight. I provide oversight.
914
01:01:20,665 --> 01:01:23,418
Trent Lott said,
the day the bill was introduced:
915
01:01:23,710 --> 01:01:27,839
"Maybe now we can do things
we've wanted to do the last 10 years."
916
01:01:28,339 --> 01:01:32,927
No, a dictatorship would be a heck
of a lot easier, no question about it.
917
01:01:33,219 --> 01:01:37,098
I mean, they had all this on the shelf
somewhere.
918
01:01:37,390 --> 01:01:41,644
Ideas of things they would like to do.
And they got 9/11
919
01:01:41,936 --> 01:01:44,313
...and they said, "It's our chance.
Go for it."
920
01:01:44,605 --> 01:01:47,066
There was an assumption
of the administration...
921
01:01:49,943 --> 01:01:53,864
...that there had to be a surrender
of certain of our rights.
922
01:01:54,156 --> 01:01:56,949
There's troubling definitions
in the bill.
923
01:01:58,993 --> 01:02:02,830
The definition of terrorist,
it's so expansive...
924
01:02:03,122 --> 01:02:06,959
-...that it could include people who--
-Like me.
925
01:02:07,251 --> 01:02:09,628
No one read it.
That's the whole point.
926
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:14,549
They wait till the middle of the night,
drop it in the night, print it in the night.
927
01:02:14,841 --> 01:02:17,218
And the next morning when we
come in, it passes.
928
01:02:17,510 --> 01:02:22,848
How could Congress pass this
Patriot Act without even reading it?
929
01:02:23,140 --> 01:02:25,267
Sit down, my son.
930
01:02:25,559 --> 01:02:29,897
We don't read most of the bills.
931
01:02:30,564 --> 01:02:33,192
Do you really know what that
would entail...
932
01:02:33,484 --> 01:02:37,822
...if we were to read every bill
that we passed?
933
01:02:40,950 --> 01:02:44,745
Well, the good thing, it would
slow down the legislative process.
934
01:02:45,037 --> 01:02:47,998
I couldn't believe that virtually
no member of Congress...
935
01:02:48,290 --> 01:02:50,918
...had read the Patriot Act
before voting on it.
936
01:02:51,210 --> 01:02:54,338
So [decided the only patriotic thing
to do...
937
01:02:54,630 --> 01:02:58,300
...was for me to read it to them.
938
01:02:58,676 --> 01:03:01,137
Members of Congress,
this is Michael Moore...
939
01:03:01,428 --> 01:03:04,140
...I would like to read you
the USA. Patriot Act.
940
01:03:04,431 --> 01:03:05,515
"Section 1:
941
01:03:05,807 --> 01:03:09,060
Section 210 of this code
reads as follows..."
942
01:03:09,352 --> 01:03:11,146
"Section 2703C..."
943
01:03:11,688 --> 01:03:14,899
My job is to secure the homeland.
That's exactly what we're gonna do.
944
01:03:15,191 --> 01:03:17,902
But I'm here to take
somebody's order.
945
01:03:18,528 --> 01:03:20,320
That's you, stretch.
What would you like?
946
01:03:20,612 --> 01:03:22,906
-Right behind you.
-I'm gonna order some ribs.
947
01:03:23,198 --> 01:03:25,325
We all know you can't
secure the homeland...
948
01:03:25,617 --> 01:03:28,495
...on an empty stomach.
And in order to remain secure...
949
01:03:28,787 --> 01:03:31,123
...everyone needs to sacrifice.
950
01:03:32,166 --> 01:03:35,127
Especially little Patrick Hamilton.
951
01:03:35,419 --> 01:03:41,133
I'm sure each of us has our own
airport-security horror story.
952
01:03:41,633 --> 01:03:43,844
But here's my favorite.
953
01:03:44,136 --> 01:03:48,557
The terrorist threat that was posed
by his mommy's breast milk.
954
01:03:48,849 --> 01:03:52,436
I thought if! put a little bit on my lips,
that would be sufficient...
955
01:03:52,728 --> 01:03:55,856
...because I'm tasting it.
She looked at me, and I felt like...
956
01:03:56,148 --> 01:03:59,776
...she was telling me, "Chug that."
She goes, "You need to drink more."
957
01:04:00,068 --> 01:04:02,196
And of a 4-ounce bottle,
I wound up drinking...
958
01:04:02,487 --> 01:04:04,198
...2 more ounces of breast milk...
959
01:04:04,489 --> 01:04:07,284
...that then, because it's touched
my lips, has to be tossed.
960
01:04:07,784 --> 01:04:10,495
While homeland security
was making sure breast milk...
961
01:04:10,787 --> 01:04:12,247
...was kept off our planes...
962
01:04:12,581 --> 01:04:15,792
...they were also doing everything
possible to ensure no one...
963
01:04:16,084 --> 01:04:17,960
...could light a firebomb on board.
964
01:04:18,669 --> 01:04:22,214
-I can bring that on the plane?
-Actually, yes, you're fine.
965
01:04:22,881 --> 01:04:24,424
One too many books of matches.
966
01:04:24,716 --> 01:04:27,135
You can have four books
and two lighters.
967
01:04:27,427 --> 01:04:29,054
When we already have
the shoe-bomber...
968
01:04:31,306 --> 01:04:33,098
...who would have blown up
an airplane...
969
01:04:33,390 --> 01:04:35,935
...if he had a butane lighter,
according to the FBI...
970
01:04:36,227 --> 01:04:38,687
...why would Transportation Security
say it's okay...
971
01:04:38,979 --> 01:04:41,232
...to take four books of matches
and two lighters...
972
01:04:41,523 --> 01:04:44,401
...as you board a plane? I'm guessing
somebody put pressure on...
973
01:04:46,028 --> 01:04:48,864
...to say, "When an airplane lands,
people wanna light up...
974
01:04:49,156 --> 01:04:50,824
...so don't take their lighters away."
975
01:04:51,116 --> 01:04:52,992
Let me see if I got this straight.
976
01:04:53,284 --> 01:04:56,996
Old guys in the gym, bad.
Peace groups in Fresno, bad.
977
01:04:57,288 --> 01:04:58,456
Breast milk, really bad.
978
01:04:58,748 --> 01:05:01,668
Matches and lighters on the plane?
Hey, no problem.
979
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:07,048
Was this really about our safety?
Or was something else going on?
980
01:05:09,050 --> 01:05:13,096
This is where the Pacific Ocean
meets the shores of Oregon.
981
01:05:13,388 --> 01:05:18,518
Over 100 miles of beautiful,
open coastline on our border.
982
01:05:18,810 --> 01:05:22,146
And, thanks to the budget
cutbacks...
983
01:05:22,438 --> 01:05:25,817
...the total number of state police
protecting it:
984
01:05:26,317 --> 01:05:27,693
One.
985
01:05:29,027 --> 01:05:30,654
Part-time.
986
01:05:31,196 --> 01:05:33,198
Meet Trooper Brooks.
987
01:05:33,490 --> 01:05:36,659
I maybe get a chance to hit
this stretch of highway...
988
01:05:37,285 --> 01:05:41,539
...once, maybe twice a week
during my shifts.
989
01:05:41,831 --> 01:05:45,084
You know, just to even drive up here
and look.
990
01:05:45,376 --> 01:05:49,337
You know, I mean, as far as I know,
there's lots of things they could do.
991
01:05:49,629 --> 01:05:52,966
I don't even wanna suspect,
because it just makes me ill inside.
992
01:05:53,383 --> 01:05:57,012
Back at the state trooper patrol office,
thanks to the budget cuts...
993
01:05:57,304 --> 01:05:59,513
...Trooper Kenyon had to come in
on his day off...
994
01:05:59,805 --> 01:06:01,557
...to catch up on some paperwork.
995
01:06:01,849 --> 01:06:04,810
For the most part, especially during
summer, when people show up...
996
01:06:05,102 --> 01:06:07,062
...this is what they get.
They close the door.
997
01:06:07,354 --> 01:06:09,690
They can read the sign
about the office closure.
998
01:06:09,982 --> 01:06:13,319
It just basically explains
that due to our cutbacks...
999
01:06:13,610 --> 01:06:16,488
...our office is not open
for administrative business.
1000
01:06:16,780 --> 01:06:20,117
There's a sign that explains
when the office is closed...
1001
01:06:20,409 --> 01:06:25,331
...they can use the phone booth
to get in touch with our dispatch.
1002
01:06:25,956 --> 01:06:28,417
Ironically enough, that phone
is a piece of junk.
1003
01:06:28,709 --> 01:06:31,003
It doesn't work very well,
so half the time...
1004
01:06:31,295 --> 01:06:34,298
...they pick up the phone
and dispatch gets static.
1005
01:06:34,590 --> 01:06:35,841
They don't hear anything.
1006
01:06:36,425 --> 01:06:39,428
For Tuesday, there'll be
no troop on patrol.
1007
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,555
Wednesday, there'll be no troop
on patrol.
1008
01:06:41,847 --> 01:06:43,766
Thursday, there'll be
no troop on patrol.
1009
01:06:44,058 --> 01:06:45,558
You get calls all the time.
1010
01:06:45,850 --> 01:06:47,769
People will call in
a suspicious vehicle...
1011
01:06:48,061 --> 01:06:50,104
...or somebody looking suspicious.
1012
01:06:50,396 --> 01:06:53,107
And I don't hardly ever respond
to that anymore.
1013
01:06:53,399 --> 01:06:54,942
I just don't have the time to do it.
1014
01:06:55,234 --> 01:06:57,570
I asked, "How many people do
we have in Oregon...
1015
01:06:57,862 --> 01:06:59,238
...on duty tonight?"
1016
01:06:59,530 --> 01:07:01,574
And we had eight troopers...
1017
01:07:01,866 --> 01:07:04,702
...on for the entire state of Oregon,
working.
1018
01:07:06,496 --> 01:07:11,084
I think Oregon is a prime example
that homeland security...
1019
01:07:11,376 --> 01:07:15,171
...is not as secure as what people
would like to believe.
1020
01:07:15,463 --> 01:07:19,008
Nobody's sent me a manual that says,
"Here's how you catch a terrorist.”
1021
01:07:19,300 --> 01:07:23,554
If I had that manual, I'd read it.
But I don't. So...
1022
01:07:23,846 --> 01:07:25,556
Yeah.
1023
01:07:26,140 --> 01:07:28,893
The Bush administration
didn't hand out a manual...
1024
01:07:29,185 --> 01:07:31,229
...on how to deal
with the terrorist threat...
1025
01:07:31,521 --> 01:07:35,149
...because the terrorist threat
wasn't what this was all about.
1026
01:07:35,983 --> 01:07:38,277
Theyjust wanted us
to be fearful enough...
1027
01:07:38,569 --> 01:07:42,448
...So that we'd get behind
what their real plan was.
1028
01:07:47,203 --> 01:07:48,371
Four minutes.
1029
01:07:48,663 --> 01:07:50,373
-Right from the top.
-All right.
1030
01:07:52,917 --> 01:07:55,336
-How much time?
-Three minutes.
1031
01:07:58,089 --> 01:08:00,674
-Okay, folks.
-Thirty seconds.
1032
01:08:01,591 --> 01:08:04,594
-Stand by.
-Fifteen seconds.
1033
01:08:07,055 --> 01:08:11,977
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five...
1034
01:08:12,269 --> 01:08:16,314
...four, three, two, one.
1035
01:08:16,606 --> 01:08:19,359
My fellow citizens...
1036
01:08:51,057 --> 01:08:54,018
At this hour, American
and coalition forces...
1037
01:08:54,310 --> 01:08:56,937
...are in the early stages
of military operations...
1038
01:08:57,229 --> 01:08:58,397
...to disarm Iraq...
1039
01:08:58,689 --> 01:09:02,276
...to free its people and to defend
the world from grave danger.
1040
01:09:02,568 --> 01:09:05,654
On my orders, coalition forces
have begun striking...
1041
01:09:05,946 --> 01:09:08,365
...selected targets
of military importance...
1042
01:09:08,657 --> 01:09:12,161
...to undermine Saddam Hussein's
ability to wage war.
1043
01:09:34,683 --> 01:09:37,644
On March 19th, 2003...
1044
01:09:37,936 --> 01:09:41,105
...George W. Bush
and the United States military...
1045
01:09:41,397 --> 01:09:43,733
...invaded the sovereign nation
of Iraq.
1046
01:09:44,943 --> 01:09:48,238
A nation that had never attacked
the United States.
1047
01:09:50,030 --> 01:09:54,159
A nation that had never threatened
to attack the United States.
1048
01:09:55,410 --> 01:10:00,581
A nation that had never murdered
a single American citizen.
1049
01:10:20,518 --> 01:10:25,064
We're going to find this--
I think this piece of my neighbor.
1050
01:10:25,356 --> 01:10:27,941
Young girl, age 20.
1051
01:10:28,608 --> 01:10:32,988
I think it's the other part
of her body. That's all.
1052
01:10:35,532 --> 01:10:38,034
There is a lot of innocent civilians
that were killed.
1053
01:10:38,326 --> 01:10:42,163
And I think that is because
the US. Army...
1054
01:10:42,747 --> 01:10:45,332
...we came in, and we knew
it wasn't gonna be easy.
1055
01:10:45,624 --> 01:10:48,001
And pretty much at first
shot anything that moved.
1056
01:10:48,293 --> 01:10:50,044
When war happens
and fighting starts...
1057
01:10:50,336 --> 01:10:52,839
...it's like we're pumped up,
motivated, ready to go.
1058
01:10:53,131 --> 01:10:54,299
It's the ultimate rush.
1059
01:10:54,591 --> 01:10:56,884
Because you know
you're going into the fight...
1060
01:10:57,176 --> 01:10:59,596
...then you got a good song
playing in the background.
1061
01:10:59,887 --> 01:11:04,058
And that gets you real fired up.
Ready to do the job.
1062
01:11:04,350 --> 01:11:05,977
You can hook your CD player up...
1063
01:11:06,269 --> 01:11:08,563
...to the tank's internal
communications system.
1064
01:11:08,855 --> 01:11:11,608
When you put your helmet on
you can hear it through the helmet.
1065
01:11:11,899 --> 01:11:13,401
This one we listen to the most.
1066
01:11:13,693 --> 01:11:16,404
This is the one-- When we travel,
we kill the enemy...
1067
01:11:16,696 --> 01:11:19,073
Drowning Pool.
"Let the bodies hit the floor"...
1068
01:11:19,365 --> 01:11:20,783
...is fitting for the job.
1069
01:11:27,081 --> 01:11:28,708
We picked "the roof is on fire"...
1070
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,003
...because it symbolized
Baghdad being on fire.
1071
01:11:32,295 --> 01:11:35,672
At the time we wanted it to burn
to get Saddam and his regime out.
1072
01:11:35,964 --> 01:11:39,925
The roof, the roof
The roof is on fire
1073
01:11:40,509 --> 01:11:44,096
We don't need no water
Let the motherfucker burn
1074
01:11:44,388 --> 01:11:47,266
Burn, motherfucker, burn
1075
01:11:58,235 --> 01:12:02,657
This is a totally different picture here
being pushed into the city.
1076
01:12:02,948 --> 01:12:04,867
Urban warfare in a tank.
1077
01:12:05,660 --> 01:12:07,160
Civilians.
1078
01:12:07,661 --> 01:12:08,912
The civilians--
1079
01:12:09,204 --> 01:12:11,873
You don't know who's friendly,
who's the enemy.
1080
01:12:12,165 --> 01:12:15,460
This is a lot more real and true
than just a video game.
1081
01:12:15,752 --> 01:12:19,089
People thought it was gonna be, "Look
through the sight and shoot." No.
1082
01:12:19,381 --> 01:12:20,840
A lot of this is face to face.
1083
01:12:21,132 --> 01:12:24,511
Especially riding by after
some of the bombs went off...
1084
01:12:24,803 --> 01:12:27,764
...and seeing all the people
on the side of the road bloated up.
1085
01:12:28,056 --> 01:12:32,227
And all the smells around you
from the people lying dead, rotted.
1086
01:12:32,519 --> 01:12:34,896
It's a lot more gruesome
than you think.
1087
01:12:35,188 --> 01:12:38,400
We called in with some artillery
and some napalm and things.
1088
01:12:38,692 --> 01:12:40,568
Some innocent women
and children got hit.
1089
01:12:40,860 --> 01:12:42,654
We met them on the road,
and they had...
1090
01:12:42,946 --> 01:12:45,240
...little girls with noses
blown off. And--
1091
01:12:45,532 --> 01:12:46,740
And...
1092
01:12:47,032 --> 01:12:49,827
...husbands carrying their dead wives
and things like that.
1093
01:12:50,119 --> 01:12:52,912
That was extremely difficult
to deal with. You're like:
1094
01:12:53,204 --> 01:12:55,957
"Shoot. What the hell
do we do now?"
1095
01:12:56,624 --> 01:13:00,878
The targeting capabilities
and the care that goes into targeting...
1096
01:13:03,131 --> 01:13:07,260
...is as impressive as anything
anyone could see.
1097
01:13:09,845 --> 01:13:11,179
-Got him.
-Good. Second one.
1098
01:13:11,471 --> 01:13:13,098
Get the other one.
1099
01:13:15,891 --> 01:13:18,978
The care that goes into it,
the humanity that goes into it.
1100
01:14:17,244 --> 01:14:19,747
Honestly, I think we should
just trust our president...
1101
01:14:20,039 --> 01:14:22,583
...in every decision he makes,
and we should support that.
1102
01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:26,044
You know? And be faithful
in what happens.
1103
01:14:26,336 --> 01:14:29,005
-Do you trust this president?
-Yes, I do.
1104
01:14:30,173 --> 01:14:32,717
Britney Spears was not alone.
1105
01:14:33,009 --> 01:14:34,593
The majority
of the American people...
1106
01:14:34,885 --> 01:14:38,222
...trusted the president.
And why shouldn't they?
1107
01:14:38,514 --> 01:14:41,141
He'd spent the better part
of the last year...
1108
01:14:41,433 --> 01:14:44,853
...giving them every reason
why we should invade Iraq.
1109
01:14:45,145 --> 01:14:48,190
Saddam Hussein has gone
to elaborate lengths...
1110
01:14:48,482 --> 01:14:50,025
...spent enormous SUITIS. ..
1111
01:14:50,317 --> 01:14:54,738
...taken great risks to build and keep
weapons of mass destruction.
1112
01:14:55,030 --> 01:14:58,991
Saddam Hussein is determined
to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.
1113
01:14:59,283 --> 01:15:01,536
Nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapon.
Nuclear weapon.
1114
01:15:01,828 --> 01:15:06,415
Active chemical munitions bunkers.
Mobile production facilities.
1115
01:15:06,707 --> 01:15:08,459
We know he's got
chemical weapons.
1116
01:15:08,751 --> 01:15:10,627
He's got them. He's got them.
He's got them.
1117
01:15:10,919 --> 01:15:12,754
Huh, that's weird.
1118
01:15:13,046 --> 01:15:16,550
Because that's not what Bush's
people said when he first took office.
1119
01:15:18,260 --> 01:15:19,719
He hasn't developed capability...
1120
01:15:20,011 --> 01:15:22,055
...with respect to weapons
of mass destruction.
1121
01:15:22,347 --> 01:15:25,433
He's unable to project conventional
power against his neighbors.
1122
01:15:27,101 --> 01:15:30,270
We're able to keep arms from him.
Military forces haven't been rebuilt.
1123
01:15:30,562 --> 01:15:34,440
Saddam Hussein aids
and protects terrorists...
1124
01:15:34,732 --> 01:15:36,776
...including members of al Qaeda.
1125
01:15:37,068 --> 01:15:39,946
There was a relationship
between Iraq and al Qaeda.
1126
01:15:40,238 --> 01:15:42,447
Saddam. Al Qaeda.
Saddam. Al Qaeda.
1127
01:15:42,739 --> 01:15:46,034
Saddam. The al Qaeda. Saddam.
Saddam. Saddam. Al Qaeda.
1128
01:15:46,326 --> 01:15:48,579
It's only a matter of time
before terrorist states...
1129
01:15:48,871 --> 01:15:50,789
...armed with weapons
of mass destruction...
1130
01:15:51,081 --> 01:15:54,501
...develop the capability to deliver
those weapons to US. cities.
1131
01:15:54,793 --> 01:15:56,795
We're giving you facts
and conclusions...
1132
01:15:57,087 --> 01:15:58,797
...based on solid intelligence.
1133
01:16:02,718 --> 01:16:04,136
He's a man who hates America.
1134
01:16:04,428 --> 01:16:07,180
This is a man who cannot stand
what we stand for.
1135
01:16:07,472 --> 01:16:10,809
There's willingness
to terrorize himself.
1136
01:16:11,101 --> 01:16:14,313
He hates the fact, like al Qaeda does,
that we love freedom.
1137
01:16:14,605 --> 01:16:17,398
After all, this is a guy that tried
to kill my dad at one time.
1138
01:16:20,443 --> 01:16:24,196
They got people to believe there was
a threat when in fact there wasn't one.
1139
01:16:24,488 --> 01:16:26,949
You get told things every day
that don't happen.
1140
01:16:27,241 --> 01:16:28,784
It doesn't seem to bother people.
1141
01:16:29,076 --> 01:16:31,829
The Democrats were there to put
a stop to all these falsehoods.
1142
01:16:34,916 --> 01:16:36,792
I'll vote to give the president
authority he needs.
1143
01:16:37,084 --> 01:16:41,088
United States is prepared to lead the
coalition of the willing that will do it.
1144
01:16:41,380 --> 01:16:43,674
When I say we will lead
a coalition of the willing...
1145
01:16:43,966 --> 01:16:46,469
...to disarm him if he chooses
not to disarm, I mean it.
1146
01:16:46,761 --> 01:16:50,431
-Who's in that coalition of the willing?
-You will find out who's in it.
1147
01:16:51,766 --> 01:16:54,226
The coalition of the willing.
1148
01:16:54,518 --> 01:16:55,645
Roll call.
1149
01:16:55,937 --> 01:16:58,814
The Republic of Palau.
1150
01:16:59,106 --> 01:17:03,277
The Republic of Costa Rica.
1151
01:17:03,569 --> 01:17:07,156
The Republic of Iceland.
1152
01:17:07,448 --> 01:17:11,285
None of these countries has an army,
or for that matter, weapons.
1153
01:17:11,577 --> 01:17:15,456
So it looked like we'd be doing
most of the invading stuff ourselves.
1154
01:17:16,748 --> 01:17:20,251
-Then there was also:
-Romania.
1155
01:17:20,543 --> 01:17:25,131
The Kingdom of Morocco.
1156
01:17:25,423 --> 01:17:28,301
Morocco wasn't officially
a member of the coalition...
1157
01:17:28,593 --> 01:17:31,721
...but according to one report, they did
offer to send 2000 monkeys...
1158
01:17:32,013 --> 01:17:33,973
...to help detonate land mines.
1159
01:17:35,641 --> 01:17:37,184
These are men of vision.
1160
01:17:37,476 --> 01:17:39,019
The Netherlands.
1161
01:17:39,311 --> 01:17:40,979
And I'm proud to call them allies.
1162
01:17:42,647 --> 01:17:44,523
Afghanistan.
1163
01:17:44,815 --> 01:17:46,525
Afghanistan?
1164
01:17:46,817 --> 01:17:48,902
Oh, yeah. They had an army.
1165
01:17:49,194 --> 01:17:53,073
Our army. I guess that's one way
to build a coalition.
1166
01:17:53,365 --> 01:17:55,659
Just keep invading countries.
1167
01:17:55,951 --> 01:18:00,122
Yes, with our mighty coalition intact,
we were ready.
1168
01:18:00,414 --> 01:18:03,834
One could almost say
it's the mother of all coalitions.
1169
01:18:06,627 --> 01:18:09,630
Fortunately, we have an independent
media in this country...
1170
01:18:09,922 --> 01:18:11,757
...who would tell us the truth.
1171
01:18:12,049 --> 01:18:15,928
The rallying around the president,
the flag and the troops has begun.
1172
01:18:16,220 --> 01:18:17,638
And we're gonna win!
1173
01:18:17,930 --> 01:18:20,433
You have to be with troops
to understand the adrenaline.
1174
01:18:20,725 --> 01:18:23,060
I want you to know,
I think Navy SEALs rock.
1175
01:18:23,352 --> 01:18:26,272
The pictures you're seeing
are absolutely phenomenal.
1176
01:18:26,564 --> 01:18:30,943
When my country's at war,
I want my country to win.
1177
01:18:31,235 --> 01:18:34,655
Iraqi opposition has faded
in the face of American power.
1178
01:18:34,947 --> 01:18:39,201
What you're watching here is truly
historic television and journalism.
1179
01:18:39,493 --> 01:18:40,869
It was absolutely electrifying.
1180
01:18:41,161 --> 01:18:44,372
They had to strap me in with my
camera at the back of the plane.
1181
01:18:44,664 --> 01:18:46,958
An awesome, synchronized
killing machine.
1182
01:18:47,250 --> 01:18:48,626
There is an inherent bias...
1183
01:18:48,918 --> 01:18:51,463
...in the coverage of the American
press in general.
1184
01:18:51,755 --> 01:18:54,049
Am I slanted and biased?
You damn well bet I am.
1185
01:18:58,428 --> 01:19:00,930
But one story the media
wasn't covering...
1186
01:19:01,222 --> 01:19:02,849
...was the personal story...
1187
01:19:03,141 --> 01:19:06,394
...of each and every soldier
who was killed in the war.
1188
01:19:06,686 --> 01:19:09,063
The government would not allow
any cameras...
1189
01:19:09,354 --> 01:19:11,482
...to show the coffins coming home.
1190
01:19:12,191 --> 01:19:14,776
That kind of story is a downer...
1191
01:19:15,068 --> 01:19:18,821
...especially when you're getting
ready for a party on a boat.
1192
01:20:01,489 --> 01:20:02,615
My fellow Americans...
1193
01:20:04,283 --> 01:20:07,620
...major combat operations
in Iraqi have ended.
1194
01:20:07,912 --> 01:20:09,622
In the battle of Iraq...
1195
01:20:09,914 --> 01:20:14,585
...the United States
and our allies have prevailed.
1196
01:20:25,555 --> 01:20:27,473
Get out of the way!
1197
01:20:34,897 --> 01:20:38,151
Move! Move! Move! Move!
1198
01:20:58,171 --> 01:21:01,048
162, the number of troops
killed by hostile fire.
1199
01:21:01,340 --> 01:21:04,927
-244 US. troops--
-384 US. troops lost their lives--
1200
01:21:05,219 --> 01:21:08,014
-Total killed, 484.
-Died in the line of duty, 500--
1201
01:21:08,306 --> 01:21:09,473
631 American troops--
1202
01:21:09,765 --> 01:21:11,976
More than 825 troops
have been killed in Iraq.
1203
01:21:12,268 --> 01:21:14,979
The largest number of American
military deaths since Vietnam.
1204
01:21:15,271 --> 01:21:21,194
There are some who feel like
that if they attack us...
1205
01:21:21,485 --> 01:21:24,030
...that we may decide
to leave prematurely.
1206
01:21:24,864 --> 01:21:27,200
They don't understand,
if that's the case.
1207
01:21:27,491 --> 01:21:29,159
Let me finish.
1208
01:21:30,118 --> 01:21:34,289
There are some who feel like
the conditions are such...
1209
01:21:34,581 --> 01:21:36,291
...that they can attack us there.
1210
01:21:36,583 --> 01:21:38,167
My answer is, bring them on.
1211
01:21:52,306 --> 01:21:54,975
The United States was planning
on walking through here...
1212
01:21:55,267 --> 01:21:57,478
...like it was gonna be easy and all.
1213
01:21:57,770 --> 01:22:00,856
But it's not that easy
to conquer a country, is it?
1214
01:22:07,613 --> 01:22:11,533
The renewed battle for control
of Iraq raged for a fourth day today...
1215
01:22:11,825 --> 01:22:15,037
...with street clashes in nearly
every corner of the country.
1216
01:22:15,329 --> 01:22:17,831
Iraq could become "another Vietnam."”
1217
01:22:18,123 --> 01:22:21,418
Officials say they see evidence
that Sunni and Shiite extremists...
1218
01:22:21,710 --> 01:22:23,086
...might be joining forces.
1219
01:22:23,378 --> 01:22:25,380
They're not happy they're occupied.
1220
01:22:26,381 --> 01:22:28,925
I wouldn't be happy
if I were occupied either.
1221
01:22:38,601 --> 01:22:40,853
Two Japanese aid workers
and a journalist...
1222
01:22:41,145 --> 01:22:43,064
...kidnapped by men calling
themselves...
1223
01:22:43,356 --> 01:22:45,108
...the Mujahideen Squadrons.
1224
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:47,443
They threatened to burn
the hostages alive...
1225
01:22:47,735 --> 01:22:51,864
...if Japan does not withdraw its troops
from Iraq within three days.
1226
01:22:52,532 --> 01:22:54,032
What's happened?
1227
01:22:56,451 --> 01:22:57,661
They attacked our convoy.
1228
01:22:58,704 --> 01:22:59,996
You wanna give us your name?
1229
01:23:00,621 --> 01:23:03,124
Hamill, Thomas.
1230
01:23:03,749 --> 01:23:06,627
The Pentagon might keep up
to 24,000 troops in combat...
1231
01:23:06,919 --> 01:23:08,045
...beyond their tour.
1232
01:23:08,337 --> 01:23:10,548
I know our numbers
in the military have gone down.
1233
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:12,508
They talk about retention.
1234
01:23:14,176 --> 01:23:16,262
I never expected
to be deployed this long.
1235
01:23:16,554 --> 01:23:17,762
I don't think anybody did.
1236
01:23:18,221 --> 01:23:20,974
I don't have any clue
as to why we're still in Iraq.
1237
01:23:21,266 --> 01:23:24,519
If Donald Rumsfeld was here,
I'd ask him for his resignation.
1238
01:23:25,895 --> 01:23:27,771
With the war not going
as planned...
1239
01:23:28,397 --> 01:23:31,150
...and the military in need
of many more troops...
1240
01:23:32,026 --> 01:23:34,403
...where would they find
the new recruits?
1241
01:23:34,695 --> 01:23:36,571
Military experts say three times...
1242
01:23:36,863 --> 01:23:38,990
...the 120,000 US. troops
now deployed...
1243
01:23:39,282 --> 01:23:43,077
...would be needed to pacify
and rebuild the country.
1244
01:23:44,329 --> 01:23:47,081
They would find them
all across America...
1245
01:23:47,373 --> 01:23:50,960
...in the places that had been
destroyed by the economy.
1246
01:23:51,461 --> 01:23:54,005
Places where one
of the onlyjobs available...
1247
01:23:54,297 --> 01:23:56,132
...was to join the Army.
1248
01:23:56,424 --> 01:23:59,385
Places like my hometown
of Flint, Michigan.
1249
01:23:59,677 --> 01:24:01,179
I was watching TV one day...
1250
01:24:01,471 --> 01:24:05,308
...and they showed some of the areas
that had been hit by bombs.
1251
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:07,560
And while watching,
I got to thinking...
1252
01:24:07,852 --> 01:24:09,979
...there's parts of Flint
that look like that.
1253
01:24:10,271 --> 01:24:11,647
And we ain't been in a war.
1254
01:24:12,315 --> 01:24:14,107
Look at the neighborhood I live in.
1255
01:24:14,399 --> 01:24:16,651
Most of them are abandoned.
You know, I mean...
1256
01:24:16,943 --> 01:24:19,446
...that's not right.
You wanna talk about terrorism?
1257
01:24:19,738 --> 01:24:22,991
Come right here. President Bush,
right here. Come right here.
1258
01:24:23,283 --> 01:24:25,535
He knows about this corner.
I e-mailed him.
1259
01:24:26,453 --> 01:24:28,830
At the end of January of '04...
1260
01:24:29,122 --> 01:24:31,750
...the unemployment rate
in Flint was 17 percent.
1261
01:24:32,042 --> 01:24:34,544
But you have to take
into consideration as well...
1262
01:24:34,836 --> 01:24:37,672
...that when your unemployment
runs out you're no longer counted.
1263
01:24:37,964 --> 01:24:41,009
I would say that we're close
to at least 50 percent...
1264
01:24:41,301 --> 01:24:43,970
...not working or underemployed.
1265
01:24:44,262 --> 01:24:47,015
Because being underemployed
is just as dangerous.
1266
01:24:47,724 --> 01:24:49,976
My family has gone through
the welfare system...
1267
01:24:50,268 --> 01:24:51,436
...when it was Job Central.
1268
01:24:51,728 --> 01:24:54,731
In the mid-'80s I came through
the job training partnership program.
1269
01:24:57,442 --> 01:24:59,194
I went to a secretary school.
1270
01:24:59,486 --> 01:25:02,989
Years later, I'm executive assistant
to the president of the agency.
1271
01:25:03,281 --> 01:25:04,741
Interesting.
1272
01:25:05,033 --> 01:25:06,785
My mother used to tell me
all the time:
1273
01:25:07,077 --> 01:25:09,079
"Why do you always go
for the underdog?"
1274
01:25:09,371 --> 01:25:11,498
It was because the underdog
is who needed me.
1275
01:25:11,790 --> 01:25:15,210
People that don't have anything,
that's who I have to fight for.
1276
01:25:15,502 --> 01:25:17,587
And that's who I have fought for
my entire life.
1277
01:25:17,879 --> 01:25:20,674
I started taking my children
and telling my children:
1278
01:25:20,966 --> 01:25:22,342
"The military is a good option.
1279
01:25:22,634 --> 01:25:25,470
I can't afford to have you
go to college. I can't pay your way.
1280
01:25:25,762 --> 01:25:27,222
Financial aid will not help you."
1281
01:25:27,514 --> 01:25:29,850
So I, as a mother,
started teaching my children...
1282
01:25:30,142 --> 01:25:32,227
...about the options
that the military could do.
1283
01:25:32,519 --> 01:25:34,146
They would take them
around the world.
1284
01:25:34,438 --> 01:25:37,524
They'd see all the things that I,
as a mother, couldn't let them see.
1285
01:25:37,816 --> 01:25:41,653
It'd pay for their education that I, as
their mother and father, couldn't pay.
1286
01:25:41,945 --> 01:25:44,322
The military is a good option
for kids in Flint.
1287
01:25:44,614 --> 01:25:47,534
The military is an excellent option
for the people of Flint.
1288
01:25:49,202 --> 01:25:52,706
How many of you have a friend
or a family member in the service?
1289
01:25:54,374 --> 01:25:56,877
Anybody currently serving
overseas?
1290
01:25:57,169 --> 01:25:58,837
-A brother of mine.
-My cousin.
1291
01:25:59,129 --> 01:26:00,255
Yeah, cousin.
1292
01:26:00,547 --> 01:26:02,299
-Where's your brother?
-Iraq.
1293
01:26:02,591 --> 01:26:04,301
Germany.
1294
01:26:04,593 --> 01:26:08,597
My cousin got shipped off
to Iraq, like, three days ago.
1295
01:26:08,889 --> 01:26:10,181
Dang.
1296
01:26:10,473 --> 01:26:12,600
There's, like, an Army
or Navy recruiter...
1297
01:26:12,892 --> 01:26:16,145
...or Marines recruiter up there
almost every week...
1298
01:26:16,937 --> 01:26:20,900
...in the lunchroom recruiting
students at the lunchroom.
1299
01:26:21,567 --> 01:26:24,820
There are people with a calling.
1300
01:26:28,157 --> 01:26:32,411
Most serve one weekend a month
and two weeks a year.
1301
01:26:34,580 --> 01:26:36,164
Earning money for college.
1302
01:26:40,084 --> 01:26:42,337
Protecting their community.
1303
01:26:43,837 --> 01:26:46,089
In the Army National Guard...
1304
01:26:46,673 --> 01:26:47,841
...you can.
1305
01:26:50,969 --> 01:26:52,221
I'm going into the Air Force.
1306
01:26:52,513 --> 01:26:55,390
I'm gonna take a year off
after high school.
1307
01:26:55,682 --> 01:26:59,019
And then make a career. I wanna be
an aircraft maintenance technician.
1308
01:26:59,311 --> 01:27:02,231
I ran into a recruiter, and there
was something I noticed about it.
1309
01:27:02,523 --> 01:27:05,108
And this is kind of on another--
I noticed it was odd.
1310
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,985
More like he was hiring me
than recruiting me for the Army.
1311
01:27:08,277 --> 01:27:11,322
It was the way he approached me.
I was in Borders Books and Music.
1312
01:27:11,614 --> 01:27:13,741
He came up like he was handing
us a business card.
1313
01:27:14,033 --> 01:27:16,410
He had business cards
made for the Army.
1314
01:27:21,874 --> 01:27:24,377
Meet Marine Staff
Sergeant Dale Kortman...
1315
01:27:24,669 --> 01:27:26,545
...and Sergeant Raymond Plouhar.
1316
01:27:27,753 --> 01:27:31,757
They are two of the many recruiters
assigned to Flint, Michigan.
1317
01:27:32,174 --> 01:27:34,134
They're very busy these days.
1318
01:27:34,426 --> 01:27:36,302
Look, he's running away already.
1319
01:27:36,594 --> 01:27:39,138
-He's seen us coming.
-Yeah.
1320
01:27:40,098 --> 01:27:41,598
What have we got here?
1321
01:27:41,890 --> 01:27:44,017
-Need a little gangster.
-Yeah.
1322
01:27:44,643 --> 01:27:47,271
We're heading over
to the Courtland Mall right now.
1323
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:50,273
They decided not to go
to the wealthier...
1324
01:27:50,565 --> 01:27:52,774
...Genesee Valley Mall
in the suburbs.
1325
01:27:53,066 --> 01:27:55,819
They have a hard time
recruiting young people there.
1326
01:27:56,111 --> 01:27:59,322
Instead, they went
to the other mall.
1327
01:27:59,614 --> 01:28:02,158
-Let's go in through Mervyn's.
-In through Mervyn's.
1328
01:28:02,450 --> 01:28:06,162
And then we'll walk straight down
and straight back and then go down--
1329
01:28:06,621 --> 01:28:08,581
Gents, you know
we're looking at you, right?
1330
01:28:08,872 --> 01:28:10,416
You guys ever think
about joining up?
1331
01:28:10,708 --> 01:28:13,168
I thought about going to college
and playing basketball.
1332
01:28:13,460 --> 01:28:15,754
-You any good?
-Yeah. Especially basketball.
1333
01:28:16,046 --> 01:28:18,048
Good. You can play ball
for the Marine Corps.
1334
01:28:18,340 --> 01:28:21,093
Travel around the world
for the Corps basketball team.
1335
01:28:21,385 --> 01:28:23,679
-David Robinson was in the military.
-Oh, was he?
1336
01:28:23,971 --> 01:28:25,598
Yeah, you can definitely hook it up.
1337
01:28:25,889 --> 01:28:29,268
Right now somebody out there wants
to be a Marine but has no idea how to.
1338
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:31,645
-Where you work at?
-I work at KFC.
1339
01:28:31,937 --> 01:28:34,982
-Sweet. Hook us up with deals.
-Yes.
1340
01:28:35,274 --> 01:28:36,900
They're waiting to get recruited.
1341
01:28:37,192 --> 01:28:39,236
I was gonna try a career
in music or something.
1342
01:28:39,528 --> 01:28:42,697
Career in music? Maybe we can
get you a career in music.
1343
01:28:42,989 --> 01:28:45,742
Let the Marines go for it.
I'm sure you know who Shaggy is.
1344
01:28:46,326 --> 01:28:50,079
-You know anything about him?
-Yeah, he's the Jamaican singer.
1345
01:28:50,371 --> 01:28:52,247
How about a former Marine?
1346
01:28:52,539 --> 01:28:53,999
-Oh.
-Did you know it?
1347
01:28:54,291 --> 01:28:56,876
You need to know discipline
if you're gonna get into music.
1348
01:28:57,168 --> 01:28:58,794
Especially discipline
with the money.
1349
01:28:59,086 --> 01:29:01,380
If you make a million, you need
to manage that money.
1350
01:29:01,672 --> 01:29:03,132
Come to the office, we can talk...
1351
01:29:03,424 --> 01:29:05,259
...show you everything
about the Marines.
1352
01:29:05,551 --> 01:29:07,720
-A plan?
-What you got going this afternoon?
1353
01:29:08,012 --> 01:29:10,640
How about tomorrow?
1354
01:29:10,931 --> 01:29:13,726
-That sounds pretty good.
-You want me to pick you up?
1355
01:29:14,018 --> 01:29:16,437
It's better to get them
when they're in ones and twos...
1356
01:29:16,729 --> 01:29:18,313
...and work on them that way.
1357
01:29:18,605 --> 01:29:19,731
Ladies, ready to join up?
1358
01:29:20,023 --> 01:29:21,899
Green hat right behind us.
1359
01:29:22,191 --> 01:29:25,778
-Looks young. He's young.
-Yeah.
1360
01:29:26,070 --> 01:29:28,155
We got two over here...
1361
01:29:28,447 --> 01:29:30,199
...right over by the red van.
1362
01:29:30,491 --> 01:29:32,493
You go that way, I go this way,
we corner them.
1363
01:29:32,785 --> 01:29:34,661
-You're in the ninth grade?
-Yes, sir.
1364
01:29:34,952 --> 01:29:37,664
Man, you look older
than ninth grade.
1365
01:29:37,955 --> 01:29:39,539
All right, here's my card.
1366
01:29:39,831 --> 01:29:41,667
You ever thought about
being a Marine, man?
1367
01:29:41,958 --> 01:29:44,169
I've thought about it.
I've got a wife and kid now.
1368
01:29:44,461 --> 01:29:46,004
Even more reason to join up.
1369
01:29:46,296 --> 01:29:47,798
What I want to do, man...
1370
01:29:48,090 --> 01:29:51,009
...is get information from you
so I can scratch you off my list...
1371
01:29:51,301 --> 01:29:54,805
...saying I've talked to you, and
you're not interested. Is that cool?
1372
01:29:55,097 --> 01:29:57,391
What's your name? Phone number?
What's your address?
1373
01:29:57,683 --> 01:29:58,975
Add another one to the list.
1374
01:29:59,267 --> 01:30:03,730
However, one would love to have
that chance to experience college life.
1375
01:30:04,022 --> 01:30:07,025
You know, stuff young people
can do without having the risk...
1376
01:30:07,317 --> 01:30:10,486
...of dying in the process,
I guess I can say candidly.
1377
01:30:12,822 --> 01:30:17,118
The holidays add a bit more friction,
as opposed to just another night...
1378
01:30:17,410 --> 01:30:21,455
...in the fact we wanna give our guys
a little time off, time to relax.
1379
01:30:21,747 --> 01:30:25,584
However, we are in a combat zone,
and my soldiers do recognize that fact.
1380
01:30:25,876 --> 01:30:28,837
Everybody's a little bit
nervous about it, I guess.
1381
01:30:29,129 --> 01:30:32,006
We're professionals.
We're gonna take care of you.
1382
01:30:33,133 --> 01:30:35,009
I promise.
1383
01:30:36,219 --> 01:30:40,056
Every house here has the right
to have weapons.
1384
01:30:40,348 --> 01:30:42,434
Maximum, one AK-47.
1385
01:30:42,726 --> 01:30:45,478
We always expect the targets
to be armed.
1386
01:30:52,068 --> 01:30:54,070
Rock 'n' roll.
1387
01:30:55,989 --> 01:30:58,867
These are fucking bolt cutters.
1388
01:30:59,159 --> 01:31:01,327
This goddamn thing
to pry doors open.
1389
01:31:01,619 --> 01:31:03,413
Pop this in there...
1390
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,076
Hey, Adele, just hold up.
1391
01:31:48,792 --> 01:31:50,292
No, no, no, no.
1392
01:31:50,584 --> 01:31:52,127
Where's she going?
1393
01:31:53,003 --> 01:31:54,671
-I'II go with her.
-Where's she going?
1394
01:31:54,963 --> 01:31:56,089
She's gonna call him.
1395
01:31:56,381 --> 01:32:00,134
She's gonna call him? No, no, no.
Where is he at right now?
1396
01:32:00,426 --> 01:32:02,136
Not on the phone.
Not on the phone.
1397
01:32:02,428 --> 01:32:05,389
Is he in the house?
Is he in the house?
1398
01:32:05,681 --> 01:32:07,892
-Passerelli! Passerelli!
-Is he in the house?
1399
01:32:08,184 --> 01:32:10,269
He is? He is in the house? Where?
1400
01:32:10,561 --> 01:32:12,605
-This is him?
-Get up there, second floor!
1401
01:32:12,897 --> 01:32:15,775
Watch out. Go, go, go!
Watch out, Adele, watch out.
1402
01:32:16,067 --> 01:32:17,735
I have one coming up.
1403
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:22,823
That's Suheib Al Douri?
1404
01:32:23,949 --> 01:32:25,617
-What's your name?
-Suheib.
1405
01:32:25,909 --> 01:32:28,203
-This is Suheib. Yeah.
-This is Suheib.
1406
01:32:28,495 --> 01:32:30,247
-This is Suheib?
-Yeah.
1407
01:32:31,164 --> 01:32:33,040
Stand him up. Get up.
1408
01:32:37,127 --> 01:32:42,090
Tell them to calm down, please.
We will not be long.
1409
01:32:45,969 --> 01:32:48,304
We appreciate your cooperation.
This is the target.
1410
01:32:48,596 --> 01:32:50,973
Suheib Al Douri. Bring him out.
1411
01:32:51,265 --> 01:32:53,517
We have to, as you go back
to the old saying...
1412
01:32:53,809 --> 01:32:56,353
...win the hearts and minds
of the people. That's our job.
1413
01:32:56,645 --> 01:32:59,731
We have to-- We have to bring the--
1414
01:33:00,023 --> 01:33:03,192
The ideal of democracy
and freedom to the country...
1415
01:33:03,484 --> 01:33:07,113
...and show them that the American
people are not here to rule Iraq.
1416
01:33:25,882 --> 01:33:29,552
I start doing evidence turn-in.
That process takes about three hours.
1417
01:33:29,844 --> 01:33:31,554
So that's gonna be it for the night.
1418
01:33:31,846 --> 01:33:34,807
That concludes Christmas Eve.
1419
01:33:37,768 --> 01:33:39,520
Merry Christmas, PRT.
Merry Christmas.
1420
01:33:39,812 --> 01:33:41,814
Santa came to Iraq
just for you guys.
1421
01:33:42,106 --> 01:33:43,941
Trying to keep skies
clear for you, Santa.
1422
01:33:46,569 --> 01:33:48,487
Do you consider yourself
a proud American?
1423
01:33:48,779 --> 01:33:49,947
Absolutely.
1424
01:33:50,239 --> 01:33:53,492
I'm an extremely proud American.
I'm probably more proud...
1425
01:33:53,784 --> 01:33:54,911
...than the average Joe.
1426
01:33:55,202 --> 01:33:58,623
When I put my flag out,
I can't allow it to touch the ground.
1427
01:33:58,915 --> 01:34:02,251
Because I know the lives that were lost
and the blood that was shed...
1428
01:34:02,543 --> 01:34:04,419
...50 that I could be here
and have a flag.
1429
01:34:04,711 --> 01:34:07,964
-How often do you put the flag out?
-Every single day. Every day.
1430
01:34:08,256 --> 01:34:11,134
I started when my daughter
was in Desert Storm.
1431
01:34:11,426 --> 01:34:12,844
I had the same flag...
1432
01:34:13,136 --> 01:34:16,473
...flying on my front porch
and the same yellow ribbons.
1433
01:34:16,765 --> 01:34:19,643
Praying and hoping every day
that my child would come home safe.
1434
01:34:19,935 --> 01:34:21,853
And everybody's child
would come home safe.
1435
01:34:22,145 --> 01:34:23,688
-And she did.
-And she did.
1436
01:34:23,980 --> 01:34:26,107
Have other family members
been in the military?
1437
01:34:26,399 --> 01:34:27,859
Absolutely. Uncles, aunts...
1438
01:34:29,611 --> 01:34:31,154
...cousins, brothers, father.
1439
01:34:31,446 --> 01:34:33,281
-Very strong military family.
-Very strong.
1440
01:34:33,573 --> 01:34:36,701
My family was--
My family is what I consider...
1441
01:34:36,993 --> 01:34:38,661
...part of the backbone of America.
1442
01:34:38,953 --> 01:34:41,330
It's families like mine.
And it's not just my family.
1443
01:34:41,622 --> 01:34:44,083
There's hundreds of families,
millions of families...
1444
01:34:44,375 --> 01:34:46,669
...that this country was founded
on their backs.
1445
01:34:46,961 --> 01:34:50,297
I have been known to be
a conservative Democrat. Yeah.
1446
01:34:50,589 --> 01:34:52,508
That's what you consider
yourself? Yeah.
1447
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:56,053
-Yeah, it's a great country.
-It's a great country. A great country.
1448
01:34:56,345 --> 01:35:01,016
The cross that I choose to wear
is a multicultural, multicolor cross.
1449
01:35:01,308 --> 01:35:04,395
That's because I believe that all
God's people come in many colors.
1450
01:35:04,687 --> 01:35:06,981
And my family itself is multicultural.
1451
01:35:07,564 --> 01:35:10,859
You have a daughter
who went into the military.
1452
01:35:11,151 --> 01:35:13,278
Then your first-born son,
in the military.
1453
01:35:13,570 --> 01:35:18,909
That's quite a gift to the country
from your family.
1454
01:35:19,201 --> 01:35:21,537
So having a son in the Army,
pretty proud thing.
1455
01:35:21,829 --> 01:35:24,957
Oh, you know what? He made it.
1456
01:35:25,541 --> 01:35:30,129
What was your reaction to protestors
during the Gulf War or Vietnam?
1457
01:35:30,421 --> 01:35:32,089
I always hated the protestors.
1458
01:35:32,381 --> 01:35:36,342
I always hated the protestors.
It was just a slap in my face.
1459
01:35:36,634 --> 01:35:40,513
It was just like they were
dishonoring my son.
1460
01:35:40,805 --> 01:35:44,434
And I burned in my soul
to tell them, "You don't understand.
1461
01:35:44,726 --> 01:35:46,769
They're not there because
they wanna be there.”
1462
01:35:47,061 --> 01:35:50,523
But then I came to understand
they weren't protesting the men...
1463
01:35:50,815 --> 01:35:54,610
...and women there. They were
protesting the concept of the war.
1464
01:35:54,902 --> 01:35:57,780
I know I'm a soldier,
and I'm here to do a job.
1465
01:35:58,698 --> 01:36:01,242
I've been a soldier for a while.
1466
01:36:02,702 --> 01:36:05,621
Once you have to go
and do your job...
1467
01:36:05,913 --> 01:36:08,166
...and you see the things
that you see...
1468
01:36:10,209 --> 01:36:12,920
...was saying, there's some
disillusionment in that.
1469
01:36:13,212 --> 01:36:17,550
Battalion commander fully
expects us to be...
1470
01:36:17,842 --> 01:36:20,553
...attacked in some type of way...
1471
01:36:20,845 --> 01:36:22,805
...before we get to FARP Shell.
1472
01:36:23,806 --> 01:36:26,642
I know that so far
it's been pretty calm.
1473
01:36:26,934 --> 01:36:28,186
Not much has happened.
1474
01:36:28,478 --> 01:36:33,191
But be aware that it can,
and it probably will.
1475
01:36:37,779 --> 01:36:40,656
They're beginning to organize
themselves, just in neighborhoods.
1476
01:36:40,948 --> 01:36:44,202
The kids get together a lot.
Well, I can't say kids...
1477
01:36:44,494 --> 01:36:45,870
...but guys about 17, 18...
1478
01:36:46,162 --> 01:36:47,622
...starting to come together.
1479
01:36:47,914 --> 01:36:50,249
They hate us.
Why, 'm not really sure.
1480
01:36:53,044 --> 01:36:57,005
Immoral behavior
breeds immoral behavior.
1481
01:36:57,839 --> 01:37:00,133
When a president commits
the immoral act...
1482
01:37:00,425 --> 01:37:04,638
...of sending otherwise good kids
to war based on a lie...
1483
01:37:04,930 --> 01:37:06,640
...this is what you get.
1484
01:37:06,932 --> 01:37:09,309
Hey, is he ticklish?
1485
01:37:09,601 --> 01:37:11,311
Don't tell me you don't know.
1486
01:37:31,665 --> 01:37:34,668
To have these people
shoot at us, kill us, blow us up...
1487
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:36,878
...whatever, means they can.
1488
01:37:37,170 --> 01:37:38,672
And I don't understand it.
1489
01:37:38,964 --> 01:37:41,466
We're trying to help these people,
and it seems...
1490
01:37:41,758 --> 01:37:43,802
...they don't want our help.
“Get out of here!”
1491
01:37:44,094 --> 01:37:46,721
The minute something goes wrong,
"Why weren't you here?
1492
01:37:47,013 --> 01:37:48,973
Why didn't you do this?"
You know, it's--
1493
01:37:49,265 --> 01:37:51,183
I hate this country.
1494
01:37:51,475 --> 01:37:55,436
You know, you-- I feel
that a part of your soul...
1495
01:37:56,396 --> 01:38:00,775
...is destroyed in taking another life.
1496
01:38:02,277 --> 01:38:04,988
Yeah, that statement is very true.
1497
01:38:05,280 --> 01:38:08,657
You cannot kill someone
without killing a part of yourself.
1498
01:38:09,158 --> 01:38:10,366
If you get called up...
1499
01:38:10,658 --> 01:38:12,368
-...will you go back to Iraq?
-No.
1500
01:38:14,579 --> 01:38:17,582
What repercussions
do you face if you don't?
1501
01:38:17,874 --> 01:38:19,292
Possible jail time.
1502
01:38:19,584 --> 01:38:20,960
That's one possible thing.
1503
01:38:21,252 --> 01:38:23,754
-Are you willing to risk that?
-Yes.
1504
01:38:24,046 --> 01:38:25,630
Yes, I--
1505
01:38:25,922 --> 01:38:29,551
I will not let my person...
1506
01:38:30,927 --> 01:38:34,014
I will not let anyone...
1507
01:38:34,306 --> 01:38:37,642
...send me back over there
to kill other poor people.
1508
01:38:37,934 --> 01:38:43,440
Especially when they pose
no threat to me and my country.
1509
01:38:47,694 --> 01:38:49,237
I won't do it.
1510
01:38:50,363 --> 01:38:52,948
This is an impressive crowd.
The haves...
1511
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:55,492
...and the have-mores.
1512
01:38:57,411 --> 01:38:59,747
Some people call you the elite.
1513
01:39:00,039 --> 01:39:02,166
I call you my base.
1514
01:39:10,174 --> 01:39:12,551
While Bush was busy
taking care of his base...
1515
01:39:12,843 --> 01:39:14,929
...and professing his love
for our troops...
1516
01:39:15,221 --> 01:39:19,266
...he proposed cutting combat
soldiers' pay by 33 percent...
1517
01:39:19,558 --> 01:39:22,186
...and assistance to their families
by 60 percent.
1518
01:39:22,853 --> 01:39:24,188
He opposed giving veterans...
1519
01:39:24,480 --> 01:39:27,358
...a billion dollars more
in health-care benefits...
1520
01:39:27,650 --> 01:39:30,611
...and he supported
closing veteran hospitals.
1521
01:39:30,903 --> 01:39:34,240
He tried to double the prescription
drug costs for veterans...
1522
01:39:34,531 --> 01:39:38,118
...and opposed full benefits
for part-time reservists.
1523
01:39:39,161 --> 01:39:41,455
When Staff Sergeant Brett Petriken
from Flint...
1524
01:39:41,747 --> 01:39:44,250
...was killed in Iraq on May 26th...
1525
01:39:44,541 --> 01:39:46,794
...the Army sent his last paycheck
to his family...
1526
01:39:47,086 --> 01:39:50,589
...but they docked him for the last five
days of the month he didn't work...
1527
01:39:50,881 --> 01:39:52,091
...because he was dead.
1528
01:39:54,510 --> 01:39:56,887
They say they're not gonna leave
any veteran behind...
1529
01:39:57,179 --> 01:39:59,473
...but they're leaving all kinds
of veterans behind.
1530
01:40:02,058 --> 01:40:04,643
To say we're forgotten,
I know we're not. But missed? Yes.
1531
01:40:04,935 --> 01:40:07,604
Yes. There's a lot of soldiers
that have been missed...
1532
01:40:07,896 --> 01:40:09,648
...that have been skipped over.
1533
01:40:09,940 --> 01:40:11,900
Didn't get the proper coverage
they deserved.
1534
01:40:12,192 --> 01:40:15,112
There's a death toll, but not
showing the injured or amputated.
1535
01:40:18,407 --> 01:40:20,826
- I still feel like I have hands.
-Yeah.
1536
01:40:21,118 --> 01:40:25,205
And the pain is like my hands
are being crushed in a vise.
1537
01:40:25,497 --> 01:40:27,207
But they do a lot to help it...
1538
01:40:27,499 --> 01:40:29,334
...and they take a lot
of the edge off it.
1539
01:40:29,626 --> 01:40:32,379
It makes it a lot more tolerable.
1540
01:40:33,046 --> 01:40:35,674
I was injured in late April
on patrol in Baghdad.
1541
01:40:38,885 --> 01:40:42,139
A couple of guys come out
and ambushed us.
1542
01:40:42,431 --> 01:40:44,725
I got nerve damage
and stuff like that.
1543
01:40:45,017 --> 01:40:49,187
I've got a lot of pain.
I'm constantly in pain.
1544
01:40:50,022 --> 01:40:51,982
I take a lot of morphine...
1545
01:40:52,274 --> 01:40:55,527
...to help with that and stuff.
1546
01:40:56,486 --> 01:40:57,696
I'm doing--
1547
01:40:57,988 --> 01:41:00,365
Doing-- You know, just readjusting.
1548
01:41:00,657 --> 01:41:04,036
Getting life back on track.
1549
01:41:04,328 --> 01:41:06,872
You know what I'm saying?
1550
01:41:07,164 --> 01:41:10,083
I'm not gonna do what it is
that I did before.
1551
01:41:11,209 --> 01:41:14,296
I was a Republican
for quite a few years.
1552
01:41:14,588 --> 01:41:16,088
And...
1553
01:41:17,798 --> 01:41:19,884
...for some reason, they...
1554
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:25,181
They conduct business
in a very dishonest way.
1555
01:41:25,473 --> 01:41:28,184
I'm gonna be incredibly active
in the Democratic Party...
1556
01:41:28,476 --> 01:41:31,395
...down where I live once I get out.
1557
01:41:31,896 --> 01:41:33,898
I'm gonna definitely do my best...
1558
01:41:34,190 --> 01:41:37,193
...to ensure that the Democrats
win control.
1559
01:41:37,485 --> 01:41:40,321
Iraq, Baghdad, I didn't know
anything of those things.
1560
01:41:43,366 --> 01:41:47,327
And we were in the hallway
in the upstairs of our house...
1561
01:41:47,619 --> 01:41:50,204
...and he was crying and said
that he was really scared.
1562
01:41:50,496 --> 01:41:52,748
And he didn't want
to have to go to Iraq.
1563
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:57,127
So we had a conversation about,
sometimes some fear is healthy...
1564
01:41:57,419 --> 01:41:59,338
...because it keeps
our senses about us.
1565
01:41:59,630 --> 01:42:01,839
That's when he told me
he hadn't told anybody else.
1566
01:42:02,131 --> 01:42:04,217
But he knew he was going
to Baghdad.
1567
01:42:06,594 --> 01:42:10,640
We were-- As everybody,
we were glued to the TV.
1568
01:42:10,932 --> 01:42:13,768
Just glued, completely glued
to the television...
1569
01:42:14,060 --> 01:42:15,728
...in hopes of seeing
a glimpse of him.
1570
01:42:16,020 --> 01:42:18,189
"Can't you please go to
where the helicopters are?
1571
01:42:18,481 --> 01:42:20,357
Can't you please let us see him?"
1572
01:42:20,649 --> 01:42:23,234
Then that night,
it was about 10 something...
1573
01:42:23,526 --> 01:42:25,945
...went upstairs to the bedroom.
1574
01:42:26,237 --> 01:42:28,739
I was in bed, flipping the channels
with the remote.
1575
01:42:29,031 --> 01:42:32,326
All I heard was, "Black Hawk down,
South Central Iraq."
1576
01:42:32,618 --> 01:42:35,496
What I can tell you at this hour
is that last night...
1577
01:42:35,788 --> 01:42:38,833
...the Army did, indeed, lose
a Black Hawk helicopter.
1578
01:42:39,125 --> 01:42:41,585
We are being told by officers
on the ground...
1579
01:42:41,877 --> 01:42:44,505
...that there were six occupants
inside the Black Hawk.
1580
01:42:44,797 --> 01:42:46,799
The next morning
I got up, and I said:
1581
01:42:47,091 --> 01:42:49,300
"You push those sad thoughts
out of your mind.
1582
01:42:49,592 --> 01:42:51,260
Okay, Jesus,
I need you to come in.
1583
01:42:51,552 --> 01:42:54,054
I need you, Jesus.
You gotta help me through this."
1584
01:42:54,346 --> 01:42:57,723
The Army called me, and I remember
getting on the phone and him saying--
1585
01:42:58,015 --> 01:43:00,852
Asking me was I Lila Lipscomb,
and I said, "Yes "
1586
01:43:01,144 --> 01:43:03,937
And he said, "Mother of
Sergeant Michael Pedersen?"
1587
01:43:05,647 --> 01:43:08,525
And I remember
dropping the telephone.
1588
01:43:11,653 --> 01:43:14,322
And all I can honestly say
that I remember...
1589
01:43:14,614 --> 01:43:17,159
...is, "Ma'am,
the United States Army...
1590
01:43:17,451 --> 01:43:21,412
...the secretary of defense
regretfully informs you--"
1591
01:43:23,873 --> 01:43:25,708
That's all I know.
1592
01:43:27,042 --> 01:43:30,754
The grief grabbed me so hard...
1593
01:43:31,046 --> 01:43:33,382
...that I literally fell on the floor.
1594
01:43:33,674 --> 01:43:36,927
And I was alone. I didn't
have anybody to pick me up.
1595
01:43:37,219 --> 01:43:40,848
So I literally crawled
over to my desk...
1596
01:43:41,140 --> 01:43:42,516
...and was hanging on.
1597
01:43:42,808 --> 01:43:44,977
And I remember screaming:
1598
01:43:45,269 --> 01:43:47,104
"Why does it have to be Michael?
1599
01:43:47,396 --> 01:43:52,735
Why did you have to take my son?
Why is it my son you had to take?
1600
01:43:53,027 --> 01:43:54,778
He didn't do anything.
1601
01:43:55,070 --> 01:43:57,698
He wasn't a bad guy.
He was a good guy.
1602
01:43:57,990 --> 01:43:59,909
Why did you have to take my son?"
1603
01:44:00,993 --> 01:44:03,871
IIT
1604
01:44:04,163 --> 01:44:07,124
I can't imagine what it must be like
to lose a son or a daughter...
1605
01:44:07,416 --> 01:44:09,835
...or a husband and--
Or a wife, for that matter.
1606
01:44:10,127 --> 01:44:12,504
And II-- It pains me.
1607
01:44:14,130 --> 01:44:15,965
Do you have his last letter?
1608
01:44:16,257 --> 01:44:18,051
It was mailed March 16th...
1609
01:44:18,801 --> 01:44:22,639
...but I didn't get it until probably
a week before he was killed.
1610
01:44:23,348 --> 01:44:25,016
“Hello. Hey, Mama.
1611
01:44:25,308 --> 01:44:28,436
Well, sorry I haven't
been able to call.
1612
01:44:28,728 --> 01:44:30,855
They took the phone
seven days ago.
1613
01:44:31,147 --> 01:44:33,023
I got the letter and box.
1614
01:44:33,315 --> 01:44:37,110
That is so cool.
Your first grandson came...
1615
01:44:38,486 --> 01:44:40,988
...the same day your oldest son did.
1616
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:43,574
How is everyone? I'm doing fine.
1617
01:44:43,866 --> 01:44:47,870
We are just out here in the sand
and windstorms waiting.
1618
01:44:48,162 --> 01:44:50,790
What in the world is wrong
with George?
1619
01:44:51,082 --> 01:44:53,875
Trying to be like his dad, Bush.
1620
01:44:54,167 --> 01:44:56,795
He got us out here
for nothing whatsoever.
1621
01:44:57,087 --> 01:45:00,256
I am so furious right now, Mama.
1622
01:45:01,090 --> 01:45:06,136
I really hope they do not
re-elect that fool, honestly.
1623
01:45:06,428 --> 01:45:09,098
I am in good spirits,
and I am doing okay.
1624
01:45:09,390 --> 01:45:11,016
I really miss you guys.
1625
01:45:11,308 --> 01:45:13,184
Thanks for the Bible...
1626
01:45:14,936 --> 01:45:17,480
...and books and candy.
1627
01:45:17,772 --> 01:45:21,776
I really look forward to letters
from you guys.
1628
01:45:22,068 --> 01:45:26,197
Well, tell all the family hello
and that I am doing fine.
1629
01:45:26,489 --> 01:45:29,826
We don't expect anything
to happen any time soon.
1630
01:45:30,118 --> 01:45:34,163
I cannot wait to get home
and get back to my life.
1631
01:45:34,455 --> 01:45:36,499
Tell Sputnik congrats...
1632
01:45:36,791 --> 01:45:40,336
...and I'll see my first nephew soon...
1633
01:45:41,170 --> 01:45:43,381
...as soon as I get back
to the States.
1634
01:45:44,048 --> 01:45:46,050
Hope you guys are doing okay...
1635
01:45:46,342 --> 01:45:48,218
...and keep sending the mail.
1636
01:45:48,510 --> 01:45:51,763
It makes getting through
the days easier.
1637
01:45:54,433 --> 01:45:57,311
Well, I am on my way to bed...
1638
01:45:57,603 --> 01:46:00,980
.50 I will write you guys soon.
1639
01:46:01,272 --> 01:46:03,274
I love and miss...
1640
01:46:03,566 --> 01:46:05,568
...all of you guys."
1641
01:46:17,455 --> 01:46:19,707
I want him to be alive...
1642
01:46:19,999 --> 01:46:22,668
...and I can't make him alive.
1643
01:46:23,836 --> 01:46:26,631
But your flesh just aches.
1644
01:46:26,922 --> 01:46:29,299
You want your child.
It's out of sync.
1645
01:46:29,591 --> 01:46:33,386
A parent is not supposed
to bury their child.
1646
01:46:36,181 --> 01:46:40,060
I feel-- I feel sad for my family...
1647
01:46:40,352 --> 01:46:42,561
...because we lost our son.
1648
01:46:44,021 --> 01:46:45,605
But...
1649
01:46:45,897 --> 01:46:48,941
...I really feel sorry
for the other families...
1650
01:46:49,233 --> 01:46:54,196
...that is losing their kids
as we speak.
1651
01:46:56,531 --> 01:46:58,325
And for what?
1652
01:46:58,617 --> 01:47:00,285
I-- 1 don't--
1653
01:47:01,495 --> 01:47:04,498
That's the--
I guess the sickening part.
1654
01:47:04,790 --> 01:47:05,957
For what?
1655
01:47:06,458 --> 01:47:08,502
You've heard a lot
about Halliburton lately.
1656
01:47:10,212 --> 01:47:13,632
Criticism is okay. We can take it.
Criticism is not failure.
1657
01:47:13,924 --> 01:47:15,926
Our employees are doing
a great job.
1658
01:47:16,218 --> 01:47:19,179
We're feeding the soldiers.
We're rebuilding Iraq.
1659
01:47:19,471 --> 01:47:22,557
Will things go wrong?
Sure they will. It's a war zone.
1660
01:47:22,849 --> 01:47:25,185
We're serving the troops
because of what we know...
1661
01:47:25,477 --> 01:47:26,853
...not who we know.
1662
01:47:27,145 --> 01:47:30,065
Let me tell you about Halliburton,
the company I ran.
1663
01:47:31,775 --> 01:47:33,527
I'm proud of what I did at Halliburton.
1664
01:47:33,819 --> 01:47:36,863
The people are proud of what
they've accomplished. I, frankly...
1665
01:47:37,155 --> 01:47:38,990
...don't feel any need to apologize...
1666
01:47:39,282 --> 01:47:42,077
...for the way I've spent my time
over the last five years...
1667
01:47:42,369 --> 01:47:44,954
...as the CEO and chairman
of a major American corporation.
1668
01:47:45,246 --> 01:47:47,831
This is also an attempt
to divert attention...
1669
01:47:48,123 --> 01:47:51,126
...from the fact they have
no energy policy.
1670
01:47:51,418 --> 01:47:54,587
And as the secretary of energy said,
"We were caught unawares."
1671
01:47:56,923 --> 01:48:01,344
In the middle of the war, Microsoft,
DHL and other corporations...
1672
01:48:01,636 --> 01:48:03,722
...invited Halliburton
to a conference...
1673
01:48:04,013 --> 01:48:07,684
...to figure out how much money
could be made in Iraq.
1674
01:48:08,892 --> 01:48:10,602
Having worked this...
1675
01:48:12,813 --> 01:48:16,942
...effort, even since before the--
The invasion...
1676
01:48:17,234 --> 01:48:19,778
...the liberation of Iraq started.
1677
01:48:20,070 --> 01:48:24,783
You, industry, are definitely
a vital part of that effort.
1678
01:48:25,075 --> 01:48:28,036
We appreciate your interest
in this. We need you.
1679
01:48:28,328 --> 01:48:30,372
Lots of you are small businesses
and struggling:
1680
01:48:32,166 --> 01:48:34,877
"How do we get a piece of this?
You big guys are gonna get it.
1681
01:48:35,169 --> 01:48:38,546
The rest of us will have subcontracting
capability or none at all.”
1682
01:48:38,838 --> 01:48:40,965
USTDA is for you.
1683
01:48:41,257 --> 01:48:42,925
Once that oil starts flowing...
1684
01:48:43,217 --> 01:48:45,136
...and money coming,
gonna be lots of money.
1685
01:48:45,428 --> 01:48:47,722
It's the second-largest
reserve of oil in the world.
1686
01:48:48,014 --> 01:48:49,640
No question of how much
money's there.
1687
01:48:49,932 --> 01:48:52,769
I've been getting complaints
from Iraqi firms and American firms.
1688
01:48:55,354 --> 01:48:57,356
The lack of transparency,
the corruption.
1689
01:48:57,648 --> 01:49:02,236
I think the profits American companies
are making, the main companies...
1690
01:49:02,528 --> 01:49:03,654
...are so overwhelming.
1691
01:49:03,946 --> 01:49:07,283
I mean, when you have a line item
for a million dollars...
1692
01:49:07,575 --> 01:49:10,661
...and you subcontract it out
for 50 or 60 or $70,000...
1693
01:49:10,953 --> 01:49:12,121
...that's a huge profit.
1694
01:49:12,413 --> 01:49:14,665
It's the American taxpayer
that's gonna pay for that.
1695
01:49:14,957 --> 01:49:18,211
And it's gonna get better.
Start building relationships.
1696
01:49:18,503 --> 01:49:20,213
Because it's gonna get
much better...
1697
01:49:20,505 --> 01:49:22,799
...as the oil flows
and their budgets increase.
1698
01:49:23,090 --> 01:49:25,802
Good news is, whatever it costs,
the government will pay you.
1699
01:49:26,093 --> 01:49:28,805
War is always good
for certain companies...
1700
01:49:29,096 --> 01:49:31,224
...that are in the war--
The business of war.
1701
01:49:34,060 --> 01:49:35,560
We're very proud.
1702
01:49:37,312 --> 01:49:39,022
Supporting US. government
and military.
1703
01:49:39,314 --> 01:49:41,817
The real heroes of the campaign
and the reconstruction...
1704
01:49:42,108 --> 01:49:44,361
...are the men and women
of the US. Armed Forces.
1705
01:49:44,653 --> 01:49:47,072
We're proud of being any part
we can in supporting them.
1706
01:49:47,364 --> 01:49:51,284
Halliburton delivers hot meals,
supplies, clean clothing...
1707
01:49:51,576 --> 01:49:53,953
...and communications
to our soldiers...
1708
01:49:54,245 --> 01:49:58,374
...so they can be
a little closer to home.
1709
01:49:59,792 --> 01:50:01,168
It's a girl!
1710
01:50:01,460 --> 01:50:04,338
Halliburton. Proud to serve
our troops.
1711
01:50:04,630 --> 01:50:07,925
I just read in the paper
Halliburton got another contract.
1712
01:50:08,217 --> 01:50:11,010
-Halliburton got another contract.
-That's right.
1713
01:50:11,302 --> 01:50:13,763
Which is not being...
1714
01:50:15,098 --> 01:50:16,349
...contested at all.
1715
01:50:16,641 --> 01:50:17,892
Because nobody knows.
1716
01:50:18,184 --> 01:50:20,645
Well, it's in the paper,
so somebody knows.
1717
01:50:20,937 --> 01:50:24,898
But that's after it happens,
after the fact. It's too late.
1718
01:50:25,941 --> 01:50:29,987
The United States is now a major
player in the Iraqi oil business.
1719
01:50:30,279 --> 01:50:32,281
American troops
guard the oil fields...
1720
01:50:32,573 --> 01:50:35,534
...as Texas oil workers
assess their potential.
1721
01:50:35,826 --> 01:50:39,288
It's a safe environment to work in.
We don't feel any risk.
1722
01:50:39,580 --> 01:50:42,373
We feel we're being well protected
here, or we wouldn't be here.
1723
01:50:42,665 --> 01:50:43,833
It's no secret. I mean...
1724
01:50:44,125 --> 01:50:48,129
...make anywhere between
2 and 3000 a month.
1725
01:50:48,421 --> 01:50:50,548
A Halliburton employee
out here driving a bus...
1726
01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:54,093
...can make between 8 and 10,000
a month. Explain that one to me.
1727
01:50:54,385 --> 01:50:55,720
For 40 hours a week.
1728
01:50:56,012 --> 01:50:57,972
Driving the same
two-and-haIf-mile route.
1729
01:50:58,264 --> 01:50:59,472
Go figure.
1730
01:50:59,764 --> 01:51:01,766
Where's the justification in that?
1731
01:51:02,058 --> 01:51:04,853
There's no other single area
of the world today...
1732
01:51:06,645 --> 01:51:08,981
...with the opportunity
for business, new business...
1733
01:51:09,273 --> 01:51:12,109
...similar to the opportunity
that's available today in Iraq.
1734
01:51:12,401 --> 01:51:14,069
The president went in,
did what he did.
1735
01:51:15,779 --> 01:51:17,281
We're supporting him
and our troops.
1736
01:51:17,573 --> 01:51:22,077
We wanna make sure
that the efforts and the lost lives...
1737
01:51:22,369 --> 01:51:23,704
...wasn't for no reason.
1738
01:51:23,996 --> 01:51:26,290
If it wasn't for the oil,
nobody would be there.
1739
01:51:26,582 --> 01:51:28,125
Nobody would worry about it.
1740
01:51:28,417 --> 01:51:30,336
Unfortunately,
at least for the near term...
1741
01:51:32,379 --> 01:51:35,299
...we think it's gonna be a good
situation, a dangerous situation.
1742
01:51:35,591 --> 01:51:38,052
Good for business,
bad for the people.
1743
01:51:38,344 --> 01:51:41,680
Today on the news,
Rumsfeld was saying--
1744
01:51:41,972 --> 01:51:45,809
And Wolfowitz was saying:
1745
01:51:46,101 --> 01:51:49,521
"The Iraqi people are much,
much better off.
1746
01:51:49,813 --> 01:51:52,774
Isn't it better that we
got rid of Saddam...
1747
01:51:53,066 --> 01:51:56,736
...and now the Iraqi people
can do what they wanna do...
1748
01:51:57,028 --> 01:51:58,947
...and really be free?"
1749
01:51:59,238 --> 01:52:01,991
Will they ever be free?
No, they'll not be free.
1750
01:52:02,283 --> 01:52:05,161
And where are the weapons
of mass destruction?
1751
01:52:05,453 --> 01:52:08,246
It was a-- We were duped.
We were really duped.
1752
01:52:08,538 --> 01:52:09,873
And these poor people...
1753
01:52:10,165 --> 01:52:13,293
...the young men and women
who are being killed there.
1754
01:52:13,585 --> 01:52:15,212
-It's unnecessary.
-That's a disgrace.
1755
01:52:15,504 --> 01:52:17,631
-That's it. No more.
-That's a disgrace.
1756
01:52:17,923 --> 01:52:21,426
They died in a just cause,
for defending freedom...
1757
01:52:21,718 --> 01:52:24,763
...and they will not
have died in vain.
1758
01:52:36,066 --> 01:52:39,319
Lila had called to tell me
she was coming down from Flint...
1759
01:52:39,611 --> 01:52:43,323
...to Washington, DC.
to attend a jobs conference.
1760
01:52:43,824 --> 01:52:46,118
On her break, she said
she was going to go...
1761
01:52:46,410 --> 01:52:49,287
...and pay a visit
to the White House.
1762
01:52:56,420 --> 01:52:59,548
Bush killed children. Iraqi children.
1763
01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:03,593
-My son, killed.
-Killed my people in Spain, yesterday.
1764
01:53:03,885 --> 01:53:07,430
-Lies kill people. Your children too.
-Yes, my son.
1765
01:53:07,722 --> 01:53:10,307
They have no business to do
in Iraqi now. They're killing...
1766
01:53:10,599 --> 01:53:12,059
-...all these young Americans.
-Yes.
1767
01:53:12,351 --> 01:53:15,938
For what? For oil.
Bush is a terrorist.
1768
01:53:16,230 --> 01:53:18,441
-No, he isn't. This is all staged.
-Yes, he is.
1769
01:53:18,733 --> 01:53:20,818
-This is all staged.
-My son.
1770
01:53:21,110 --> 01:53:24,863
-Where was he killed?
-You tell me my son is not a stage.
1771
01:53:25,155 --> 01:53:27,364
-Where was he killed?
-He was killed in Karbala.
1772
01:53:29,116 --> 01:53:33,287
April 2nd. It's not a stage.
My son is dead.
1773
01:53:33,579 --> 01:53:36,040
There are a lot of other people too.
1774
01:53:40,127 --> 01:53:42,046
Blame al Qaeda.
1775
01:53:45,883 --> 01:53:47,759
What did that woman yell at you?
1776
01:53:48,051 --> 01:53:51,137
That I'm supposed
to blame the al Qaeda.
1777
01:53:51,429 --> 01:53:55,892
The al Qaeda didn't make a decision
to send my son to Iraq.
1778
01:53:57,018 --> 01:54:00,480
Ignorance that we deal with,
with everyday people.
1779
01:54:00,772 --> 01:54:02,940
Because they don't know.
People think they know...
1780
01:54:03,232 --> 01:54:07,153
...but you don't know.
I thought I knew, but I didn't know.
1781
01:54:12,324 --> 01:54:14,868
I need my son.
1782
01:54:32,636 --> 01:54:35,055
God, it's tougher than I thought
it was gonna be...
1783
01:54:35,347 --> 01:54:37,099
...to be here.
1784
01:54:38,016 --> 01:54:39,726
But it's freeing also...
1785
01:54:40,018 --> 01:54:41,770
...because I finally have a place...
1786
01:54:42,062 --> 01:54:45,439
...to put all my pain
and all my anger...
1787
01:54:45,731 --> 01:54:47,733
...and to release it.
1788
01:54:53,280 --> 01:54:57,284
I guess I was tired of seeing people
like Lila Lipscomb suffer.
1789
01:54:57,576 --> 01:55:01,914
Especially when, out of
the 535 members of Congress...
1790
01:55:02,206 --> 01:55:05,543
...only one had an enlisted son
in Iraq.
1791
01:55:08,796 --> 01:55:11,632
I asked Corporal Henderson of
the United States Marine Corps...
1792
01:55:11,924 --> 01:55:13,634
...to join me on Capitol Hill...
1793
01:55:13,926 --> 01:55:17,012
...to see how many members
of Congress we could convince...
1794
01:55:17,304 --> 01:55:20,182
...to enlist their children
to go to Iraqi.
1795
01:55:20,474 --> 01:55:21,809
Congressman, I'm Michael Moore.
1796
01:55:22,101 --> 01:55:24,270
-Hey, Michael. How are you doing?
-Good.
1797
01:55:24,562 --> 01:55:27,231
-John Tanner, from Tennessee.
-Very nice to meet you.
1798
01:55:27,523 --> 01:55:29,775
-What y'all doing?
-I'm here with Corporal Henderson.
1799
01:55:30,067 --> 01:55:33,404
-United States Marine Corps.
-Corporal, I was in the Navy.
1800
01:55:33,696 --> 01:55:36,073
-1968 to '72.
-Okay.
1801
01:55:36,365 --> 01:55:37,867
We had Marines guarding the base.
1802
01:55:38,159 --> 01:55:39,285
-You have kids?
-Yeah.
1803
01:55:39,577 --> 01:55:41,620
Is there any way we can
get them to enlist...
1804
01:55:41,912 --> 01:55:44,206
...and go over there
and help out with the effort?
1805
01:55:44,498 --> 01:55:47,501
-I've got all the brochures.
-One of them has got two children.
1806
01:55:49,295 --> 01:55:52,131
See, there's not many congressmen
that have kids over there.
1807
01:55:52,423 --> 01:55:54,550
In fact, only one. You know.
1808
01:55:54,842 --> 01:55:57,051
So we just thought maybe they--
1809
01:55:57,343 --> 01:55:59,637
-You guys should send your kids first.
-That's right.
1810
01:55:59,929 --> 01:56:02,098
-What do you think about that?
- I don't disagree.
1811
01:56:02,390 --> 01:56:04,893
You don't? Oh, good.
Well, take some brochures.
1812
01:56:05,185 --> 01:56:07,103
-At least take a Marine brochure.
-Thank you.
1813
01:56:07,395 --> 01:56:08,897
-Pass it around.
-Yeah, well...
1814
01:56:09,189 --> 01:56:12,734
Encourage the fellow members
if they're for the war to get behind it.
1815
01:56:13,026 --> 01:56:14,360
-Send their own.
-Thank you.
1816
01:56:14,652 --> 01:56:16,821
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
1817
01:56:18,113 --> 01:56:20,490
Congressman? Michael Moore.
1818
01:56:20,782 --> 01:56:22,117
-How you doing today?
-Good.
1819
01:56:22,409 --> 01:56:26,038
I'm trying to get members of Congress
to get their kids to enlist in the Army...
1820
01:56:26,330 --> 01:56:28,415
...and go over to Iraq.
1821
01:56:29,333 --> 01:56:30,625
Congressman.
1822
01:56:30,917 --> 01:56:32,251
Congressman.
1823
01:56:32,543 --> 01:56:34,629
Congressman Castle?
Congressman Castle?
1824
01:56:34,921 --> 01:56:37,048
Congressman. Congressman.
1825
01:56:37,340 --> 01:56:39,383
Congressman Doolittle,
Michael Moore.
1826
01:56:39,675 --> 01:56:41,259
I was wondering if--
1827
01:56:44,471 --> 01:56:46,139
Is there any way to...?
1828
01:56:48,850 --> 01:56:50,894
Of course, not a single member
of Congress...
1829
01:56:51,186 --> 01:56:54,439
...wanted to sacrifice their child
for the war in Iraq.
1830
01:56:55,148 --> 01:56:56,942
And who could blame them?
1831
01:56:57,234 --> 01:56:59,443
Who would wanna give up
their child?
1832
01:56:59,735 --> 01:57:01,527
Would you?
1833
01:57:01,819 --> 01:57:03,446
Would he?
1834
01:57:05,406 --> 01:57:07,450
I've always been amazed
that the very people...
1835
01:57:07,742 --> 01:57:09,786
...forced to live in the worst
parts of town...
1836
01:57:10,411 --> 01:57:13,580
...go to the worst schools
and who have it the hardest...
1837
01:57:13,872 --> 01:57:18,710
...are always the first to step up
to defend that very system.
1838
01:57:19,002 --> 01:57:22,506
They serve so that
we don't have to.
1839
01:57:22,798 --> 01:57:27,594
They offer to give up their lives
so that we can be free.
1840
01:57:27,886 --> 01:57:31,765
It is remarkable, their gift to us.
1841
01:57:32,057 --> 01:57:34,768
And all they ask for in return...
1842
01:57:35,060 --> 01:57:37,688
...Is that we never send them
into harm's way...
1843
01:57:38,313 --> 01:57:41,650
...unless it's absolutely necessary.
1844
01:57:43,193 --> 01:57:46,530
Will they ever trust us again?
1845
01:57:46,822 --> 01:57:48,865
He had used weapons.
1846
01:57:49,157 --> 01:57:50,284
We know where they are.
1847
01:57:52,327 --> 01:57:54,746
Around Tikrit, Baghdad
and east, west, south and north.
1848
01:57:55,038 --> 01:57:59,251
There is a tie between Iraq
and what happened on 9/11.
1849
01:57:59,543 --> 01:58:01,419
The struggle can only end...
1850
01:58:01,711 --> 01:58:04,504
...with their complete
and permanent destruction.
1851
01:58:04,796 --> 01:58:08,425
We wage a war to save
civilization itself.
1852
01:58:09,843 --> 01:58:11,845
We did not seek it.
1853
01:58:12,637 --> 01:58:16,308
But we will fight it,
and we will prevail.
1854
01:58:16,599 --> 01:58:18,518
George Orwell once wrote...
1855
01:58:18,810 --> 01:58:23,440
...that, "It's not a matter of whether
the war is not real or if it is.
1856
01:58:23,732 --> 01:58:25,941
Victory is not possible.
1857
01:58:27,067 --> 01:58:32,448
The war is not meant to be won.
It is meant to be continuous.
1858
01:58:32,740 --> 01:58:35,200
A hierarchical society
is only possible...
1859
01:58:35,492 --> 01:58:38,245
...on the basis of poverty
and ignorance.
1860
01:58:39,121 --> 01:58:41,540
This new version is the past...
1861
01:58:41,832 --> 01:58:44,209
...and no different past
can ever have existed.
1862
01:58:46,211 --> 01:58:48,714
In principle, the war effort
is always planned...
1863
01:58:49,006 --> 01:58:52,134
...to keep society
on the brink of starvation.
1864
01:58:52,426 --> 01:58:56,638
The war is waged by the ruling group
against its own subjects.
1865
01:58:56,930 --> 01:59:01,935
And its object is not the victory
over either Eurasia or East Asia...
1866
01:59:02,227 --> 01:59:06,357
...but to keep the very
structure of society intact.”
1867
01:59:06,648 --> 01:59:08,442
There's an old saying
in Tennessee.
1868
01:59:08,734 --> 01:59:10,610
I know it's in Texas,
probably in Tennessee.
1869
01:59:10,902 --> 01:59:12,402
Fool me once...
1870
01:59:13,236 --> 01:59:14,946
...shame on...
1871
01:59:16,030 --> 01:59:17,906
Shame on you.
1872
01:59:20,325 --> 01:59:22,243
You fool me,
we can't get fooled again.
1873
01:59:22,535 --> 01:59:24,621
For once, we agreed.
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