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I mean, look, we're on top of the

banks, the telecoms, the databases...

...these Internet carriers.

We're tracking, what,

a billion phone calls a day?

- We got this Guantanemera open.

- Guantanamo.

Nobody's gonna be hearing

from those people for a long time.

Sir, I served your father.

And he was an able

and honorable man.

And he won the Iraq war.

But he, myself and Powell...

...we let that momentum slip away.

And if we hadn't...

...we wouldn't be looking down

the barrel of another 9l11.

I told my father the same thing

back then:

"Take the sucker out."

So, what do you think the odds are

that Saddam's got nukes?

Well, according to our sources,

- But even if it was 1 percent...

- You don't have to sell me.

We gotta sell the American people...

...okay, and Colin.

The Commander in Chief

doesn't have to sell anything.

He has constitutionally

unlimited power in wartime.

And you have the capacity

to do anything you see fit.

Okay.

What's that thing you got there?

This is a sign-off.

It authorizes us...

...to use "interrogation techniques...

...against unlawful

enemy combatants...

...with maximal

effective persuasion."

Like pulling out their toenails?

No sir.

Enhanced interrogation techniques...

...means utilizing fear scenarios...

...like dogs or isolation...

...or simulated drowning

or sleep deprivation...

...or enforced stress positions,

but nothing fatal.

Kind of reminds me

of my fraternity days.

Remember,

we don't use torture in this country.

No torture.

But it includes our citizens too.

If they are aiding and abetting

terrorist organizations.

Makes sense.

Still, I can see all these

latte-sipping lefties going nuts again.

The Kyoto bullshit was bad enough.

Now it'll be all the sobbing

over the Geneva Convention.

Let me take a look at it.

Only three pages? Good.

The Office of Legal Counsel

is with us on this one.

- I got it, Vice, I'll look at it.

- lf we sign this week...

...with Congress in recess,

we're gonna have less nonsense.

- I said, I'll look at it.

- Okay.

I'll let you finish your lunch.

Oh, Vice...

...when we're in meetings

with others...

...I just want you to keep a lid on it.

I thought I was, sir.

No, you heard me.

Just keep your ego in check.

You know, because, remember,

I'm the president.

I'm the decider.

- I totally agree, sir.

- Okay.

Ninety, 45, 90 is the plan, sir.

Two hundred and twenty-five days.

Ninety for prep.

Moving 150,000 troops into Kuwait...

...building the airfields,

moving equipment.

Then air strikes for 45 days.

- Then 90 days of ground combat.

- A hundred and fifty thousand men?

I mean, I'm not looking

to play small ball here, Tommy.

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