US GOVERNMENT STEALS FROM "WAG THE DOG".

Life imitates art imitating life.

Wag The Dog" is a wonderfully funny film that lampoons "spin doctoring", the art of manufacturing news as
done by special contractors hired by corporations and politicians. The film, which stars Dustin Hoffman and
Robert DiNero, tells a story of a fictional war created in the media to distract the public from an election-eve sex
scandal, and was notable for a staged photograph of the film's President with a young woman in a beret that
mirrored the later-to-be-famous photo of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, whose Oval Office Oralizing had not
yet exploded as a mainstream scandal at the time of filming.

In yet another scene from the script, the spin doctors are faced with a collapse of their fictional war. In order to
salvage the illusion of the war, the spin doctors hit upon the idea of creating a mythical Prisoner Of War to plaster
all over the media.

Well, it seems that Washington DC is devoid of original ideas, and they have reached into this film for the next
plot device to sell the conquest of Iraq to the public. Peering into their crystal ball, the US Department of Defense
has decided that Scott Speicher , who has been treated as either dead or missing in action since his aircraft was
shot down over Iraq during Desert Storm, might still, maybe, kinda, could be, still be alive and a prisoner of war.

03/16/02 Iraqi pilot reclassified a POW.

Careful reading of this article confirms that the US Government doesn't actually have any proof that Scott is still
alive. Scott's "resurrection" is the purest publicity device to try to whip up public support for the conquest of Iraq,
as calculated and cynical as its fictional inspiration in the film "Wag The Dog".