:44:01
Rambo goes in, finds no POWs,
Congress buys it, case closed.
:44:06
And if he happens to get caught,
nobody knows except you.
:44:11
Who the hell
do you think you're talking to?
:44:14
A stinking bureaucrat who's trying to
cover his ass. - A nation's!
:44:21
Besides, it was your hero's fault. If
he had done what he was meant to do,
:44:25
we'd be out of this clean and simple.
He was just supposed to take pictures.
:44:30
And if those pictures showed something,
they'd have been lost.
:44:35
You still don't understand
what this is all about.
:44:37
Same as always: Money.
:44:40
In '72 we were supposed to pay the Cong
4.5 billion in war reparation.
:44:44
We reneged, they kept the POWs.
:44:47
And you're doing the same thing
all over again.
:44:50
What would you do?
:44:52
Pay ransom for our men and finance
the war effort against our allies?
:44:57
And if some burnt-out POW
shows up on the 6 o'clock news?
:45:00
Do you want to start the war over again
and bomb Hanoi?
:45:05
You think the Senate's going to pay
billions for a few forgotten ghosts?
:45:11
For men! Men who fought
for their country! - That's enough!
:45:16
Trautman, I'm going to forget
this conversation ever took place.
:45:22
You bastard!
- And if I were you,
:45:25
I'd not make the mistake of bringing it
up again. - You're making the mistake.
:45:30
Yes? What mistake?
:45:33
Rambo.