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Distraction.
The Wall Street Journal has some particularly good detail on why the current action may be more effective than the Desert Storm air war: it will involve a much higher percentage of precision weapons, the cruise missiles now have satellite guidance, there isn't the distraction of also trying to attack an army deployed throughout the region, and the targeting is now being done off seven years of intelligence.
But although the 60 Minutes producer is played by the star (Pacino grandstands, but not to the point of distraction), Bergman's story doesn't have the same primal force.
Judd Gregg, R-N.H., called Harkin's complaint a pointless distraction, and Barr dismissed it as a semantic quibble.
5) The whole investigation of Clinton's means of winning re-election is a distraction from the real scandal: that he intends to do nothing with the job.