Podhoretz to Bush: "Go on, Mr. President: Wag the Dog....."

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This stuff is from late summer 2002:

Podhoretz wrote <http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/abstract/137438451.html?did=137438451&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&desc=OCT.+SURPRISE,+PLEASE>, "Go on, Mr. President: Wag the dog... You're in some domestic political trouble, Mr. President. You need to change the subject... Your enemies are delirious with excitement about the corporate-greed scandals and the effect they might have on your popularity and the GOP's standing in November." Bush adviser Karl Rove <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Rove_020118.html> . Rove told Repugs at the Republican National Committee about the political benefits of . He also has called on Republicans to use the war <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22098-2002Sep15¬Found=true> to gain votes.

Other right-wing leaders promote <http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0920-04.htm> war on Iraq as the ultimate wedge issue to divide the Democratic Party. Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card has described <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,800693,00.html> the war's timing with "from a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."

This from the Rove linke above:
Responding to Rove's remarks, in an interview with ABCNEWS, Democratic strategist James Carville said, "Strange that they send the president out to say 'we aren't going to politicize the war.' And they send the president's political adviser out to say 'we are going to politicize the war.'"

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1. Wag the dog?

Isn't that the phrase the Republicans used when Clinton went after Bin Laden?

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2. Yes, they say he went after bin laden

to take the focus off the Monica frenzy.