战争机器 War Machine (2017) Movie Script

- Yeah.

- A what?

- We're gonna have another election.

We can't ignore these fraud allegations.

They're coming in from every corner of the country and everything points to a ridiculous Karzai victory.

I mean, the whole thing just smells stupid.

Sure.

Sure, there's gonna be irregularity now and again.

But surely a result is the best possible outcome. Yeah?

The polling station, the one right there over where you are... 367 registered voters, 1,200 votes counted.

It's a joke.

We're going to a runoff election.

Tell them what you told me!

Uh... - About what, sir?

- About the elections.

About the whole concept of elections in this country.

Well, I was just observing, sir, that, um, people don't quite understand elections.

They see that the president is alive, everything is okay.

So what's the big problem?

Why are we having an election?

Yeah.

And then you have an election anyway, and people vote for whoever the local leaders tell them to vote for.

Yeah.

Because they don't want to have their heads chopped off.

See what I mean?