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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe need to move FAST considering todays troop deployment WAG THE DOG?
I smell something very fishy. The f*cker is brainstorming, "What's it gonna take to get them off my back?".
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We need to move FAST considering todays troop deployment WAG THE DOG? (Original Post)
Iwasthere
Oct 2019
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Iwasthere
(3,170 posts)1. Wag the dog?
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)2. Movie reference
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
"Wag the Dog is a 1997 American black comedy filmproduced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.[1] The screenplay concerns a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's novel American Hero."...(more)
"Wag the Dog is a 1997 American black comedy filmproduced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.[1] The screenplay concerns a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's novel American Hero."...(more)
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)3. Read all about it!
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)4. He wagged the wrong dog
Christian Right see the Kurds (Yazidis) as the embodiment of the Holy War. Their obsession with ISIS was caused by this too. He peeled some upport with this.