If the vehicle had exploded, we wouldn't be able to run additional tests!
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Major General Partridge:
Just because the tests didn't turn out the way Colonel Burton thought they would, was no reason to suspect there was anything devious going on. Madame Chairwoman:
I ask you General, filling the fuel tanks with *water* before a test to check the combustibility of those tanks, that wasn't devious? Major General Partridge:
If the tanks had been filled with fuel, there's a good chance the vehicle would have exploded. [Stunned silence] Congressman #1:
...Isn't that the point? Major General Partridge:
If the vehicle had exploded, we wouldn't be able to run additional tests!
Just because the tests didn't turn out the way Colonel Burton thought they would, was no reason to suspect there was anything devious going on. Madame Chairwoman:
I ask you General, filling the fuel tanks with *water* before a test to check the combustibility of those tanks, that wasn't devious? Major General Partridge:
If the tanks had been filled with fuel, there's a good chance the vehicle would have exploded. [Stunned silence] Congressman #1:
...Isn't that the point? Major General Partridge:
If the vehicle had exploded, we wouldn't be able to run additional tests!
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And just because the tests didn't always come out
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the way Colonel Burton expected
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is no reason to assume that anything devious was going on
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Woman I ask you General filling the fuel tanks with water
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for a test designed to check the combustibility
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of those tanks that wasn't devious
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If the tanks had been filled with fuel
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there's a good chance the vehicle would have exploded
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Movie Summary
Story of a cover up in the military.
Actors
Congressman #1
Colonel James Burton
