(The following dialogues were based on a discussion among the President's Joint Chief of Staffs in respect of an appropriate reprisal to Libya for an unprovocated attack they launched on the US troops)
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A. J. MacInerney:
Sir, it's immediate, it's decisive, it's low-risk, and it's a proportional response.
President Andrew Shepherd:
Someday someone's going to have to explain to me the virtue of a proportional response.
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President Andrew Shepherd:
What I did tonight was not about political gain.
Leon Kodak:
Yes sir. But it can be, sir. What you did tonight was very presidential.
President Andrew Shepherd:
Leon, somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence headquarters. He's going about doing his job... because he has no idea, in about an hour he's going to die in a massive explosion. He's just going about his job, because he has no idea that about an hour ago I gave an order to have him killed. You've just seen me do the least presidential thing I do.
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