Enero 31, 2005
West Wing Bolivia Plot Line
Courtesy of Google Video:
Apparently the Zelaya character closely resembles, um, Evo?
at 4 minutes
Sorry. Sure. What's done, what's undone... What's done that we'd like to undo... Or do over... Do away with... Demonstration in Bolivia, outside our embassy. Big one. Over the ambassador's statement. It's being seen as interfering in their election. The Guy is a socialist. Yeah. Who says, If elected, he'll immediately halt their Coca eradication program. Yep. We should get into this. (Pager rings) I'll call dod, Intel, the undersecretary for low grade conflicts
at 10 minutes
Look it up. The President will see you now. Sir, Zalaya's now Polling a close second in Bolivia. Wasn't he fourth? Maybe our ambassador can say something new and inflammatory, help him bridge that final Gap. There's concern about rioting outside our embassy. We need you to make a statement affirming our impartiality. You mean, pretend to a disinterest no one's gonna believe because some diplomat happened to have too much...
at 10 minutes 30 seconds
What do they drink down there? As what I recall, the ambassador's not a stickler, Sir. I'm not declaring to an indifference that'll provoke international guffaws. Sir, If Zalaya wins he's pledged to re-nationalize their industries, stop payment on their six billion dollar debt, and remove all U.S. "Imperialist forces" From Bolivia. The imperialist forces their government expressly invited in. Up to now they've been one of our most cooperative allies in the war on drugs. Since no one ever wins and it never ends, maybe we should stop calling it a war. Fine. But we have 2,000 troops and seven battle ships in latin America. And our pilots engage daily in hostile gunfire as they Spray Coca fields.
Posted by eduardo at Enero 31, 2005 10:35 PM
Comments
can i just say i love google?
Posted by: Miguel Centellas at Febrero 1, 2005 11:19 AM
That is a bit too close to reality. These people, I think, want to start making policy for the US government. A defacto president, so to speak. ;-)
Posted by: MB at Febrero 1, 2005 02:33 PM