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Wag the Dog (novel)
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
.
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