Quote: You must mean like the time Bill launched 14 cruise missiles to destroy Sudanese pharmaceutical plants in order to distract the public from the fact that he used an intern as a humidor.
No, no. You're thinking way too small. A distraction war is an excuse to cut social programs so we can deal with foreign enemies, pump billions to the arms merchants, demand more internal "security and spying on citizens" and further curtail civil rights. Think Iraq. Or Afghanistan, for examples.
Oh, and it doesn't matter if we start the war under false pretenses or not. The Drumpfucks won't care. As long as the flag is waving over something it shouldn't be waving over.