Wag the Dog is a movie about a Washington DC "fixer" and narrative-spinner who together with a Hollywood producer fabricate a war to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal.
coincidentally - the following 3 major political scandals involving Bill Clinton coincided with 3 military campaigns - creating dual headlines, distracting from Bill Clinton's crimes.
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COINCIDENCE#1: Wag the Dog was released one month before the news broke of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and the bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998.
COINCIDENCE#2: in December 1998, the administration initiated a bombing campaign of Iraq during Clinton's impeachment trial for the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.
COINCIDENCE#3: in spring 1999, the administration intervened in the Kosovo War and initiated a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia amid congressional hearings targeting illegal campaign contributions from Chinese sources to the 1996 Clinton Campaign.