Three Kings Page #4

BILL SMITHSON:

You're heroes.

SOLDIER #6

We're heroes.

SOLDIER #7

Give war a chance.

BILL SMITHSON:

You've exorcised the ghosts of

Vietnam with a clear moral

imperative --

SOLDIER #5

Is that what we did?

BILL SMITHSON:

Where the hell are you going?

Archie is walking off with CATHY DAITCH a young reporter.

ARCHIE GATES:

I'll be right back.

BILL SMITHSON:

I don't want you helping other

reporters, goddamn it.

SOLDIER #1

We kicked ass.

SOLDIER #6

We didn't get rid of f***ing

Saddam --

SOLDIER #8

Which totally sucks a big dick.

SOLDIER #6

Those people are getting reemed --

SOLDIER #7

Bullshit, we saved Kuwait, man.

BILL SMITHSON:

Who's getting reemed? The Shiites?

SOLDIER #8

I don't know who they are, man --

SOLDIER #6

We got big firepower but we ain't

saving them --

SOLDIER #5

F*** that, we liberated Kuwait.

SOLDIER #1

Weehaaaaaaa.

Five soldiers chant Lee Greenwood's anthem, "Proud to Be An

American" into Smithson's camera --

SOLDIERS (CHANT)

'If tomorrow all the things were

gone that I worked for all my life

and I had to start again with just

my children and my wife--'

WIDE, HIGH ANGLE DOLLYING CRANE OF BIG TENT CITY

SOLDIERS (CHANT OS)

'I'd thank my lucky stars to --

Dissolve to POV from chopper - night - of twinkling lights of

vast U.S. Army camp below.

"Proud to Be An America" blasts. CHOPPER PILOTS sing off key.

CHOPPER PILOTS:

'--be livin' here today because

the flag still stands for freedom

and they can't take that

awayyyyy --'

INT. LARGE ARMY TENT - NIGHT

"Proud To Be An American" BLASTS on as

Troy, wearing a checked Arab headdress is paraded on

shoulders. He holds up a Coke can in one hand and a Bud can

in the other, like torches.

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