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[ Theme music plays ]

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[ Suspenseful music plays ]

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[ Horn honks ]

- You getting back is a bigger miracle

than the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey gold medal.

- Divine intervention.

- Yeah. Well, now I got to thank God.

And I hate owing him.

- If Moqtada al-Sadr is such a threat,

then why isn't he on the agency's radar?

- He is. Angela teed him up months ago.

It's just we haven't been paying attention.

Samir, you got some coffee there?

- Yeah. - It's gonna be a late night.

- Hey, look at this.

A report comparing Moqtada to Hassan Nasrallah.

- Hezbollah's leader? - Yeah, but this

concludes that he's not a threat.

Their assessment was that he lacks

the necessary communication and leadership skills.

- Meaning? - Well, they think he's a thuggish killer

who spends his time playing video games.

- That's not the guy I saw in Najaf.

L-Let me see that.

An army of followers.

Yeah, this is five months old.

Written by McNulty.

This guy's a junior analyst.

Doesn't know shit. It's garbage.

- Well, this is interesting.

Uh, Sadr's son, Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr.

He was a-- He was a big player.

Saddam had him arrested and executed in 1999.

- According to this, the riots that were caused by his death

was the biggest threat to Saddam's rule

since the Gulf War.

- And this gets juicier.

Look. Grand Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr--

that's Moqtada father-in-law--

he openly supported Iranian revolution.

- Saddam arrested and tortured Bakr.

Bakr, right? - Yeah.

- Bakr and his sister just when he came into power in 1980.

- Yeah, I remember this. Yeah.

The story is that Saddam

had an iron nail hammered into the forehead of al-Sadr

and then they burned the body.

And there's several accounts saying Saddam did it himself.

- He killed both of Moqtada's fathers,

his birth father and his father-in-law.

- So he's using the memory

of his father and his father-in-law

to raise his Mahdi army.

- Good old revenge.

- Yeah, well, Iraq is a family patriarchy, so that makes sense.

- Old sins got long shadows.

- And this gives him the motive.

- Yeah. It gives him a network and the authority to lead it.

- So, then what? - Is Saddam trying to warn us

not to make the same mistake he did?

Or does he know that we won't listen

and wants to sit back and be right

while we get what's coming to us?

[ Suspenseful music plays ]

He's trying to warn us

not to make the same mistake that he did.

Can you get this?

How did that develop? I want Stilwell to see this.

- I still don't trust the devil.

Okay. See you soon. - Yeah.

♪

- Seeing al-Sadr with his Mahdi army reshaping Najaf

made it clear that he's not chasing Paradise.

He's chasing power.

[ All chanting in Arabic ]

With Saddam's fall, this is al-Sadr's chance

to build a Shia state of their own,

which conveniently aligns with Iran's ambitions.

Ayatollah Khamenei has been dreaming of this since 1979.

Ironic that after his eight-year war with Iraq,

hundreds of thousands of dead, and cities destroyed,

he's got us to thank for getting rid of Saddam.

♪

[ All chanting in Arabic ]

[ Cellphone rings ]

[ Cellphone beeps ]

- [ Sighs ]

- Bloodlust? - What?

- The link between sex and violence.

Natural response to trauma.

Nothing to feel guilty about.

- I have so much to feel guilty about.

[ Dog barking ]

[ Soft piano music plays ]

[ Flames crackling ]

- [ Yawns ]

- Hmm.

- Charles, when did you start dieting?

- Rebecca, I'm just not hungry. That's all.

- You've been moping around for days.

You don't have to keep everything locked inside.

Sometimes it's good to let it out.

- Rebecca, what is the point

of burdening civilians with combat horror stories?

- It's not a burden. It's a-- it's a relief.

- You know, they call us the Greatest Generation,

but I think we're the silent generation.

- You missed the chance with Charlie. Uh...

I don't want you to make the same mistake with John.

You fought in three wars.

You don't retire a full-bird colonel without a story.

Talk.

♪

- In 1943, I was 17,

and I enlisted in the army.

I lied about my age.

They knew I was lying.

And, then, I find myself at Normandy,

the D-Day invasion.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

Wake up on this big battle cruiser off the coast of France,

rig myself up with all my equipment and ammunition.

Probably 40 pounds or more. I don't know.

Go over the side of the boat and then go down the Jacob's ladder,

and I get in the landing craft.

[ Gunfire ]

♪

See and hear the German guns firing from way up there

on the cliffs above the beach.

I'm so nervous.

I'm scared to death.

The German machine guns pinging

off the front of the steel doors on the landing craft.

And, then, we get a little bit closer to that.

We're almost there.

I see the dead, some bloated bodies floating,

these guys hung up on barbed wire

and those barriers the Germans had built.

And-- And some poor bastards, they even--

they jumped off the boat too early, and they sunk

because of all the equipment they were wearing.

They never had a chance.

We actually make it to the beach.

[ Soldiers shouting ]

We fight our way about halfway up

and then we're pinned down.

I don't know how long it was.

But I look, and I see this officer crawling towards me.

And he says, "Hey, Sergeant." "Sir."

"Every single officer in your battalion is dead."

You are now in command of second platoon."

"Sir, I'm not an officer.

I'm an NCO, a sergeant.

I work for a living."

"No. You are a first lieutenant now.

Battlefield commission."

And that's how I became an officer.

[ Indistinct radio chatter ]

- I got your pictures developed.

- Sadiq al-Sadr.

Come on.

- Murdered.

- Yes, we know. Why?

- I ordered the special inquiry.

Mukhabarat reported, um,

this was fighting between Shia clerics, no, Sistani.

- Ayatollah Sistani killed him?

- Sistani is being considered for the Nobel Peace Prize.

- So was Hitler.

- But you met with Sadiq al-Sadr.

immediately after the Gulf War ended.

Why?

- Sadr came to see me about his son.

- Moqtada. - No, his brother Mustafa.

After Gulf war,

Mustafa supported Iranian insurgents in Najaf.

- At the Shia uprising, right? - Mm-hmm.

His father denied this and begged me for my forgiveness

and his son's life.

I granted him both.

- So Sadiq al-Sadr became your ally.

- Sadr condemned Shia clerics to save his son.

I reward his loyalty.

I made him chief of, um...

[ Speaking Arabic ]

- Endowments. - Ah.

I made him chief of religious endowments.

He made-- [ Blows, speaks Arabic ]

- But then he abused that position

and started to speak against you, right?

Do you know how he got killed?

- Did you kill him?

- Ask your, uh, Jack of Diamonds if you can find him.

- Pass me those cards, please.

Thank you.

- Sadiq al-Sadr...

- Who's Jack of Diamonds?

- Tahir Jalil Habbush.

- He's the head of intelligence.

- A month before he died,

did he think he had some kind of

premonition that he was gonna get killed?

- Maybe a symbol.

He was ready to become a martyr.

[ Exhales sharply ]

Be careful who you martyr.

Iraqis never forget.

- Okay, so you killed Sadr's father

because of his religious convictions.

- Your first president, uh, Washington,

he separate church and state.

- It's called the establishment clause.

- I do same. I make same law.

You know, in Iraq, no one knows if Saddam is Sunni or Shia.

- [ Laughing ] Come on.

The whole...

[ Speaking Arabic ]

I mean, the whole thing was based on a spoils system,

relying on the Sunni tribes.

- These men were punished for breaking the law.

You do not mix religious turban with politics.

♪

- Are you sure Johnny wants to hear all this?

- I'm sure.

Can I get you a scotch?

- You better. - [ Exhales sharply ]

Korea-- What I remember about Korea,

visibility was just terrible.

We just couldn't see anything.

So you had to depend on listening.

Listening told you where to duck,

where to hide, where to look.

Then we push the Communist Chinese army

all the way back to the Yalu River,

which was the border with China.

- Have a drink.

- So there we are, sitting on this ridgeline

and, uh, looking at them.

It was the cold, winters.

And I remember my favorite sergeant major,

his feet got frozen,

and he-- he had no nerve endings anymore

on the bottom of his feet.

- Oh, God.

- One night,

I hear bugles playing over loudspeakers.

It was-- It was the eeriest, weirdest thing.

It was spooky.

[ Bugles playing ]

Then they just attacked-- you know, surprise attack?

Oh, no.

They wanted us to know they were coming.

[ Soldiers shouting ]

The human wave of screaming Chinese.

We fought them with everything we had--

rifles, bayonets, mortars,

machine guns, bazookas, ka-bar knives, our hands even.

- It's hard to imagine.

- So we began huge fighting retreat

over past the famous frozen Chosin Reservoir.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Flames crackling ]

Yeah.

[ Sighs ]

- John is gonna love to hear this.

[ Suspenseful music plays ]

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- You sent me to Najaf to see Moqtada al-Sadr.

As you can see, it's clear he's taking his father's place.

His father was your ally.

Do you think we could make Moqtada al-Sadr our ally?

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It would change the game.

We could stabilize Iraq.

♪

- [ Sighs ] Americans.

Americans are black-and-white.

Friend or enemy.

In Iraq, it is never simple.

Just think.

Once...

even CIA and Saddam were friends.

[ Engine revving ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Knock on door ]

[ Telephone rings ]

- Not you.

And close the door.

Look. As a husband and a father, sure.

I'm used to being ignored. It's par for the course.

But as your boss, it makes me look ridiculous.

- I understand, sir.

And-- And, you know, I came back.

- I knew you'd be back,

though I expected in a body bag, John.

- Polly had nothing to do with this.

- This is all on me. - Polly used her authorization

to defy my orders. - I took her pass.

- You're correct. But right now,

you got to listen to what we have to say.

- She's right.

If you need to fire me, go ahead.

But you-- you got to hear us out.

- Saddam's trying to help us.

- Why? - So...

So, Saddam knows he... up when he killed Sadiq al-Sadr,

the former Shia leader.

He made him a martyr.

He caused the whole Shia uprising

that really threatened Saddam's regime.

And we think that he's trying to warn us

from doing the same mistake with the son, Moqtada al-Sadr,

who's now the de facto Shia leader in Iraq.

- That's pure speculation, John.

- Sir, that's what you pay us to do.

We've been focusing too much on just Saddam,

and we've been ignoring all the other leaders

that are coming up in his wake.

When we removed Saddam, we created a vacuum.

And someone's gonna fill it.

And the White House, the CPA, the military--

everyone's just focused on the present.

- The point is, we need to be cultivating future leaders

sympathetic and loyal to us.

- That's what the Ayatollah is doing.

He knows that if he controls the new Iraqi leader,

Iran will become the dominant force in the Middle East.

- Yeah.

[ Suspenseful music plays ]

- Thoughts? - Well, first,

we establish a fusion cell

between CPA and the military command regarding al-Sadr.

- It's-- It's prudent move. I was there.

- Yeah, I don't need reminding.

Okay.

Okay. I'll consider it.

- Yes, sir.

- But I'm downgrading your security clearance.

Hand me your pass.

Disobey me again,

you'll be pulling archive duty at Langley.

♪

[ Knock on door, door opens ]

- We have a situation.

Turn on the TV, please.

- It's been a deadly day in Iraq.

Four U.S. civilians were killed in an ambush.

their burned and mangled bodies

were then dragged through the streets of Fallujah.

[ Crowd chanting in Arabic ] And in another incident,

five American soldiers were killed.

To get more on these latest attacks,

FOX's Steve Centanni is live in Baghdad right now.

[ Vacuum cleaner running ] Steve, we know

the people who bore that attack were civilians

who I believe were American engineers.

- [ Breathes shakily ]

- Yeah. These were American contractors

working for a security company based in North Carolina...

[ Vacuum cleaner stops, telephone ringing ]

...the four men who were the victims of this attack.

As to who carried out these attacks,

it's anybody's guess. - [ Exhales sharply ]

- Becks.

- Why haven't you called?

- Listen, I-I tried.

- Why haven't you called, John?!

It's been days!

They're-- They're burning civilians.

How do I know you're okay?

- Look. I'm sorry, honey, okay?

- Keep your sorries!

- I don't know what you've been doing, but I am...

fed up with you lying to me.

- I'm not lying, okay?

You have to understand what I'm--

what I'm going through here, okay?

- You promised...

you would stay in touch.

- I know I did, but it's-- it's--

- What are you still doing there?!

You caught Saddam!

And you swore you'd be home for Christmas!

I dread turning on the news, afraid...

I'll see you hanging on TV.

Jerry is dead!

I went to his funeral yesterday!

I-I can't take it anymore!

- Baby, listen.

The FBI is bringing in a replacement soon.

- I don't believe you.

[ Telephone beeps ] [ Sniffles ] Oh!

[ Dial tone plays ]

[ Vehicle passing by ]

[ Receiver slams ]

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Sobs ]

[ Dog whining ]

[ Sobbing ]

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♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Rock music plays on stereo ]

♪

- Watch me.

[ Music playing in distance ]

♪

[ Engine revving in distance ]

♪

- At least you picked a beautiful spot to sulk.

It's a pretty disgusting beer. I'm not gonna lie.

- [ Chuckles ] Yeah.

- You want another one? I'm buying.

- [ Mutters ]

- Cheer up, man.

You're the one who gets to go home.

- Yeah. - Yeah?

- Let's go.

♪

- [ Groans ]

♪

What are you still doing here, man?

♪

- I like the shawarma.

Yeah.

- Especially on the way out, right?

- [ Chuckles ]

I, uh...

I need to see him hang.

♪

- Here's the thing--

no WMD

means the whole justification for the war is bullshit.

So Bush needs another trophy on his wall.

Hanging Saddam--

that's his only chance to control the narrative.

- So the battle is in D.C., convincing the war hawks

Saddam's a resource, not a relic.

- [ Groans ] Politics.

And we have to keep playing along

with this political charade.

♪

How is Iraq so... cold?

- If I lose again, I'm out of here.

It's getting late.

- Well, that was easy. - What is your best shot?

- Let's play some pool. - Alright.

- Hey, Amira, can you believe this guy?

Look at him. - What's wrong with your face?

- [ Chuckles ] - I think you need a beer.

- Let me get you some. - Thanks, Amira.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

- Hi. 20 bucks says you miss.

- Hmm! - What?!

- Easy money walks in. - [ Chuckles ]

- This very shot? - Yeah, yeah. This shot.

- 20 bucks? - Yeah.

20 bucks, and-- and we get the table.

- Deal? - Hold on.

Put the money on the table and don't miss.

- Save your money, man. - Prepare to buy me my next beer.

- Okay. Let's go.

- It's gonna be an easy 20 bucks.

- [ Whistles ] Yo!

Everyone! Sandra!

- Come on. - Come here.

- James, Tiny. - He likes a crowd.

- He's about to choke. 20 bucks.

Alright? Enjoy the show.

- Enjoy the show. - Get the shot.

- Deal. - Put your hand closer so you can hit the ball.

- Oh! [ Laughter ]

- How-- How did you miss that?

He chokes on the easiest setup.

- That was horrible. - Hey, man.

- [ Sighs ]

- Keep your money. - It's okay, bro.

- Nah, keep it. I just wanted the table.

I'm sorry.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- You see it?

- Oh, thank you.

- How'd you know? - That's my money.

- Well, you know, some people just can't handle the pressure.

First time I met you,

I thought, how did I get stuck with this guy

who can't even hold his gun?

But when the shooting started...

you didn't run.

- I did shit myself, though.

- And you caught the guy--

you.

You break.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Rock music plays on stereo ]

- John Nixon? - Yeah.

- Nigel Holmes.

- Hey.

- Bureau sent me to take your place.

- Right, right. This is Samir.

He'll be your translator.

- No need.

- Oh, wow. French, too, huh?

- So, you got any pointers?

- On the French? Yeah, I thought it was a little...

It sounded a little-- - Insights.

You think it will help?

- Uh, it's gonna be tough building trust.

I bet if you were able to establish

some kind of rapport...

- I'm not interested in being his friend.

Bureau's concern is exclusively

his links with domestic terrorism--

9/11, al Qaeda,

and the plot to assassinate Bush's daughters.

- [ Scoffs ] Excuse me. - [ Laughs ]

- In retaliation for the deaths of Uday and Qusay.

- The agency investigated that claim.

- It's total horseshit.

- Yes, well...

it's my understanding there's credible evidence.

And if so, I intend to give the President what he wants.

♪

- Wow.

It seems like they got the right guy for the job.

Welcome to the Green Zone.

♪

[ Dramatic music plays ]

♪

[ Birds chirping ]

- Time to go.

[ Chains rattle, engine idling ]

- [ Gasps ]

- Who is he?

- Your friend's Arabic is shit.

- [ Laughing ]

[ Laughing continues ]

- Get him out of there, sir.

- You, um, interrupt my breakfast.

I am bored.

I do not have time for boredom.

My name is Saddam Hussein al-Majid al Tikriti,

President of Iraq.

Who are you?

Uh... accountant?

Hairdresser? - I'm your lifeline.

The Coalition Provisional Authority

sent me here to help you.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Indistinct conversations, horns honking ]

♪

[ Woman singing in Arabic on radio ]

♪

- [ Speaking Arabic ]

- I need you to get out and get your people out.

- No, Officer. You cannot come in here.

We don't recognize your authority here.

- This is not a discussion.

Clear your people out of here now for their own safety.

- You can't do this. This is freedom of speech.

- This is an order! Get your workers out now!

- No, but--

We're peaceful, okay? We're peaceful.

- We're peaceful.

- No! No!

- Take a look at this.

- Al-Hawza.

That's al-Sadr's newspaper.

- Yeah. And they just compared Bremer to Saddam.

- I mean, if he gained 40 pounds and grew a mustache.

- Ha ha.

The CPA is interpreting this

as a call to violence against Americans.

- [ Sighs ] Richard, I'm telling you,

we have to rebuild a bridge with these people,

not blow it up. - It's too late for that.

The CPA has already decided on a response-- Bremer's.

al-Sadr's paper's dead.

- We're shutting it down?

- The Army's there as we speak.

- [ Grunts ] [ Door crashes ]

- Burn the papers.

Burn all of them.

- [ Speaking in Arabic ]

- Get out!

[ Indistinct radio chatter ]

Get out!

Get out! - [ Speaks Arabic ]

[ Crowd chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ]

[ Horns honking ]

[ Dramatic music plays ]

♪

- This aligns perfectly with the freedom-of-the-press thing

we've been preaching. - [ Scoffs ]

- Bremer doesn't give a shit.

He's exercising his civil authority.

- Let's utilize the fusion cell as a--

- There isn't gonna be a damn fusion cell, okay?

- What do you mean? - It's not gonna happen.

- We just had a conversation about it.

- Yeah. It is what it is.

[ Crowd chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ]

[ Horns honking ]

♪

[ Chanting stops ]

- Hold your fire. Hold fire.

[ Crowd chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ]

♪

[ Gun cocks ]

Stay back. Stay back.

Stay back. Do not shoot!

[ Crowd chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ]

- You know your army used dogs.

For Arabs, it is a big insult.

When they capture me, they use dogs, I laugh.

- He's talking in circles.

This is a waste of your time, sir.

- If you'd like to file a complaint...

- You know when I know you invade my country?

- Saddam, I'm here to discuss your weapons program.

- When Blair visit America,

I know what's going to happen.

With international hate against Iraq,

aggression was coming, worse than 1991.

- Saddam. [ Speaks Arabic ]

- Hey, Kim, I need this report done and sent to D.C.

- Stevens.

- Make sure I'm updated.

[ Telephone rings ] - Sir.

- What is it? - It's Najaf.

[ Indistinct shouting ] - Get back!

Hands off!

[ Crowd chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ]

- Move!

We will shoot you!

- Don't move! - Hey, stay back!

- You remind me of, uh, ants.

You know, ants have no lungs or heart.

Yes, this is you.

Like one ant of thousands running around on hill.

- Thank you. - No, no. Not ant.

Ants serve a purpose.

- Your guy's no help.

He's getting devoured.

- Not my guy. He was assigned by D.C.

If you'll permit me, Admiral.

I do have a suggestion.

[ Indistinct shouting ] - Back up!

[ Gunfire ]

- Light it up!

- Go, go!

- Keep moving, keep moving!

[ Indistinct shouting ]

- You, move!

- Move your ass!

[ Indistinct conversations ]

- Can I help you?

- Shutting down that newspaper's a big mistake.

- CPA is trying to establish a price

for anti-West propaganda, John.

- Yeah, but they're punishing the wrong people.

The violence spreads from the Sunni Triangle

to the Shia population,

it's gonna start a civil war.

You got to convince Dowell.

- That's easy for you to say. You're out of here.

- Nixon. Stilwell's looking for you.

- Yeah?

I was about to get on my flight home, sir.

W-What do you need?

- Your flight can wait.

- Sorry? - Is this about Najaf?

- What we're doing in Najaf is very foolish, sir.

The Mahdi Army has zero links to those Blackwater deaths.

- Yes. It's al Qaeda, maybe Zarqawi.

- And al Qaeda wants to kill Shia

almost as much as he wants to kill Americans.

- Yeah. Their goal is to turn an insurgency into a civil war.

- This could be the opportunity to make al-Sadr an ally.

- Shut up.

That's not why I called you in here.

- So why am I missing my flight?

[ Door opens ]

- Admiral Kimball, I'd like you to meet

Agents John Nixon and Polly Stevens.

- Admiral, sir. It's an honor.

- It's good to meet you, John, Polly. - Nice to meet you.

- Forgive me, Admiral. I was under the impression

this was, uh, strictly an interagency matter.

I wasn't aware of the military was playing a role.

- Oh, we don't.

Not in the handoff. - Okay.

- The situation on the ground is deteriorating rapidly.

- We're well-aware. - Winthrop says

that you're the man to help us out.

- Well... - We need you at BIFF, now.

- Uh, sir, it's almost evening prayers.

He won't talk to anyone after evening prayers.

- Then we'll try in the morning.

- This calls on all Iraqi insurgents

to lay down their arms.

- We need Saddam to sign it.

- Sir, I'm not sure what you're expecting from me.

- John, you've built the social capital,

the trust to get his name on that paper.

- And that paper could end this war.

- Admiral, I've studied Saddam for almost a decade.

I don't want to disappoint you, but there's no way

you're getting Saddam to sign this.

- You might.

[ Plane flying overhead ]

[ Telephone ringing, door opens ]

- Hello? - Hey, Dad. Listen.

I need your help.

I'm stuck here for a couple more days.

- Huh? - Please tell Becks. I got to go.

- Oh, God. She's not gonna be happy about this.

- Listen. You got to cover me, Dad. Tell her...

the flight's delayed or, you know, tell her...

You come up with something. You're good at this stuff.

Look, she's gonna rip my head off. You don't even know.

- Look, I will cover your ass for this, okay?

Lying to the wife is, uh, my forte now.

- Yeah, I know.

- Bye.

[ Telephone beeps ]

- Was that John?

- Huh? - Was that John?

- No.

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Helicopter blades whirring ]

- Why are we waiting?

- Admirals run on Admiral's time.

- I should be in there, wearing him down.

Admiral, what exactly is going on here?

- Stand down, Holmes.

I need to try a different tactic.

- You're back.

- Miss me already?

[ Door creaks ]

- At ease.

- Leave us.

- Yes, sir.

- [ Sighs ]

I will not answer same questions.

- My replacement has the transcript,

so he'll continue from where we left off.

- [ Speaks Arabic ]

- He's an idiot.

- Yeah, uh, I guess a learning disability.

- Nixon didn't break him. That's the problem.

He still thinks he's in charge.

- In many ways, he is.

- It's not FBI's party yet.

- Saddam, this will be our final meeting.

But there's an opportunity here to move forward together.

- Opportunity? Opportunity between enemies?

- Friend and enemy in Iraq-- it's never simple.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

♪

[ Dramatic music plays ]

- This is Admiral Kimball,

the commander of Joint Special Forces.

- I know.

- I've come here today to speak to you

as one senior military commander to another.

We've suffered a great deal of bloodshed--

thousands of coalition casualties...

tens of thousands of Iraqis.

You alone have the power to end the violence.

♪

♪

It is our hope that you will restore the peace.

[ Suspenseful music plays ]

♪

- [ Exhales sharply ] [ Bangs table ]

[ Clears throat ]

[ Speaking Arabic ]

- My dignity won't allow me to sign this.

- Saddam, it's a question of legacy.

- Mine...

or yours?

- Do you want to be a Napoleon or a Mussolini?

Mussolini fought the allies till the bitter end,

until his own starving people executed him.

And history remembers him as a villain, a fool, coward.

Whereas Napoleon--

he knew he'd lost his war after Waterloo.

And he wrote to the British Crown

and sued for peace.

History remembers him as an empire builder, a hero.

His monuments still stand in Paris.

How do you want to be remembered?

- [ Breathes deeply ]

You do not understand Iraq,

or Saddam Hussein.

You disappoint me.

These men from the West--

their story is not my story.

- But, Saddam, when you sent me to Najaf,

you wanted me to learn from the mistakes of the past.

- Speak to me no more of history, John Nixon!

- We're speaking about the future here.

- Future is in Allah's hands.

- Allah has given you the power to help your people.

- I see a war...

that will never end.

An ocean of blood

will consume generation after generation,

10, 20 years from now,

forever,

America will regret what they have done.

[ Bangs desk ]

Whether my people love me or hate me,

I am their president!

When you crossed Tigris as occupier

and took me by force,

you humiliated them!

They will never stop fighting you.

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You want to end bloodshed?!

Leave!

You lose nothing by leaving.

If we stop fighting, we lose everything!

[ Exhales sharply ]

- Saddam, they're gonna execute you if you don't sign that.

- That was our first mistake--

thinking he had a conscience.

- They will execute me anyway.

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My choice is not to die or to live.

It is to die with honor or without.

- Damn it.

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[ Door creaks ]

[ Lock clicks ]

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