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Ain’t or is?
Ain’t.
I thought you said is.
{pause}
What now?
Now we rebuild.
Their country, you mean?
Right.
How much is that going to cost?
The figure I heard is sixty billion.
Dollars?
That’s right.
Who’s going to do it -
-the rebuilding?
The biggest and the best: American congloms. Maybe throw in a few Brits and French,
The same folks that gutted it are getting paid top dollar to rebuild it.
What are you inferring?
Nothing. Not a thing. What about on the home front?
We rah-rah home the troops. Ticker-tape parades, floats, homecoming queens - the whole nine yards.
They’re our country’s finest.
Then we go back to persecuting casual drug users and hysterical gay activists.
Amen.
To funding the friends and loved ones of our munitions magnates.
Heck, they’re human beings too.
To rooting our pharmaceutical terrorists.
I’m with you there.
To re-segregating our nation’s schools.
I don’t know-
To capitalizing on the tertiary urge to celibacy.
What about God?
Who?
God.
What about him?
He’s still on our side, right?
What do you think?
I don’t know. I think He is. I’m pretty sure He is.
Sounds like you’re having doubts.
Not really. I feel good. I feel real positive.
I hope so. Because we’re entering a period in which every man Jack of us will be called upon to make great sacrifices...
Hey, we just did Lent. When are we gonna do Carnival?
...Put our collective, workaholic shoulders to the wheel.
Did I hear you say collective?
Don’t do what I say. Say what I do.
Read my lips and say your prayers.
Go ‘head, make my day.
Wall Street is a fond but fickle lover.
What exactly is a sortie?
A sortie is one pass by one aircraft where ordnance is delivered.
By ordnance you mean bombs?
Bombs, missiles, napalm...
And what is collateral damage?
People, schools, churches.
Is a mosque a church?
A who?
A mosque.
Hang on a minute.
{long pause}
Where’d you go?
Backstage.
What for?
To disorder my senses.
You mean...
Exactly.
Well, how do you feel?
Unreal.
Is that better than how you normally feel?
Much. Ask me anything you like.
All Right:
What channel were you
watching when the sirens
wailed?
When the carpet bombs fell?
When the legless children
moaned?
