it's a PLAY!

All this "we're not building up to war, we're on manouevres" stuff reminds me a bit of something I studied in school:

SADDAM

Do you mass your troops at us, sir?

DUBYA

I do mass my troops, sir.

SADDAM

Do you mass your troops at us, sir?

DUBYA

[Aside to DONALD] Is the law of our side, if I say ay?

DONALD

No.

DUBYA

No, sir, I do not mass my troops at you, sir, but I mass my troops, sir.

DONALD

Do you quarrel, sir?

SADDAM

Quarrel sir! no, sir.

DUBYA

If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

SADDAM

No better.

DUBYA

Well, sir.