Backstabbing for Beginners Page #3

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I sent you?

- I did, I've even printed them up for you.

- Oh, great.

You write well.

Sixty percent of the Iraqi people

are solely dependent

upon our suppliers for survival.

Wheat, grain, milk, medicine,

essential infrastructure.

During the last ten months,

we have decreased malnutrition rate

amongst children in Iraq by 50 percent,

thereby reduced

child mortality significantly.

Okay, thank you very much.

Photographers come through.

We're gonna have a photo opportunity,

with Madame Dupre.

It's hard to overstate

how badly Saddam was abusing his people.

Friends of the regime

could get easy access to the medicine.

Others, less fortunate, were left to die

from even the simplest of diseases.

Wait.

They send bad drugs.

Dump on us

their out-of-date prescriptions.

Thank him for, bringing this to me,

and tell him I'll look into it.

He says there's a black market

with Oil-for-Food pills.

Or this innocent child,

please explain to her

why she cannot have

the stem cell therapy that could cure her.

Why she has to suffer

because the West begrudges Iraq

its dignity.

That I can't explain, no.

She asks why you are crying.

I promise I will do anything I can

to help your child.

It sickens me to have to stand there

and listen to your lies.

It's PR, Christina.

Everyone in the field is working so hard.

Well, my report to the Security Council

is going to tell the truth.

Just so you know.

Your report.

The program is a failure.

- The sanctions aren't working.

- How is the program failing?

Medicine is getting through.

- At what cost?

- People are getting basic staples.

At what cost?

Everybody is grifting the system.

Corruption grows like a cancer.

It'll never be perfect,

and surely it's better than doing nothing.

Michael, what's the delay?

Sorry,

there's a small security issue.

We'll be on our way in a few moments.

I know what you're doing.

You want me to sign off

on your moral relativism

so you can throw me under the bus

when it all unravels.

You are mistaken,

I'm just trying to feed a country.

Enough spin, Costa, enough!

The facts will speak for themselves.

My report to the Security Council

is going to tell the truth.

Baghdad is the center

of the universe now, kid.

And this, Al Rasheed, is ground zero.

Boiler room of diplomacy.

Pasha!

Nice to see you again.

Mr. Mohammed, my assistant.

Michael Sullivan.

Count your fingers

after you shake hands with this one.

All major intelligence agencies

are here,

and all rooms are bugged.

Everyone trying to barter in their secrets

and their services.

Information is everything.

The currency, the power.

Look. Listen. Learn.

Everyone

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