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iandhr
Aug 2013
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iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)1. i always enjoyed the movie until
republicans started saying it was what Clinton was doing with Kosovo and the threats from Osama to distract people from his blowjob ...
iandhr
(6,852 posts)2. So now you no longer enjoy great humor...
... because of GOP stupidity?
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)3. ...
American Hero is a 1993 satirical conspiracy theory novel, reissued as Wag the Dog: A Novel in 2004, written by Larry Beinhart. It speculated that Operation Desert Storm had been scripted and choreographed as a ploy to get George H.W. Bush reelected to a second term (taking their cues from Margaret Thatcher's similar war in the Falkland Islands), while at the same time analyzing exactly why that conflict had been so popular. The book formed the inspiration and basis for the 1997 film, Wag the Dog.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hero_(novel)