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We need to move FAST considering todays troop deployment WAG THE DOG? (Original Post) Iwasthere Oct 2019 OP
Wag the dog? Iwasthere Oct 2019 #1
Movie reference Tanuki Oct 2019 #2
Read all about it! FiveGoodMen Oct 2019 #3
He wagged the wrong dog robbedvoter Oct 2019 #4

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
2. Movie reference
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 01:03 PM
Oct 2019
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)

robbedvoter

(28,290 posts)
4. He wagged the wrong dog
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 01:09 PM
Oct 2019

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.

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