[Ditter]

Yes you are correct. "Wag the dog" was not about OBL, it was about bombing Serbia to take the news stories away from Monica. I was as interested in politics then as I am now, I don't recall even knowing anything about OBL at that time.

I remember being extremely put out with Starr because he was focusing on sex in the Oval Office and not on selling nuclear secrets to China. I didn't care what BJclinton did with Monica, I still don't.

[mainepatsfan]

I also don't recall the moonbats screaming that Clinton bypassed the UN to attack Serbia.

[xkaydet65]

Wag the dog was also about bin Laden. When he lobbed those tomahawks into Afghanistan and the aspirin factory in Sudan. He claimed it was an attempt to kill bin Laden or, maybe more correctly, to destroy terrorist training sites in Khost after Kenya and Tanzania. The fact that this all took place during impeachment is what made GOPers use the wag the dog reference

I can remember Ron Kuby on Curtis and Kuby calling for Clinton's impeachment for killing people to move the news cycles away from Monica et al. And Kuby is an unreconstructed commie who opposed Monicagate.

What I will never understand is Clinton's being terrified of the impeachment process. There was never any doubt the House would impeach and even less doubt the Senate would acquit. It was staged like good Japanese Kabuki. Every movement choreographed. Clinton was never in any danger. He created the wag the dog reference for no valuable reason.(see pages 117-120 9/11 Commission Report, authorized edition)

[TexKat]

Yes you are correct. "Wag the dog" was not about OBL, it was about bombing Serbia to take the news stories away from Monica. I was as interested in politics then as I am now, I don't recall even knowing anything about OBL at that time. I remember being extremely put out with Starr because he was focusing on sex in the Oval Office and not on selling nuclear secrets to China. I didn't care what BJclinton did with Monica, I still don't.

See post #68.

[Texas Songwriter]

Wasn't the wag the dog moment the firing of a missle into a pharmaceutical factory? My memory may be failing.