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[1] Regarding Felicity's post on 'Wag the Dog' ... I've heard this movie aired on Iraqi TV during Desert Fox (December '98)? Can anyone confirm?
[2] "Dune" (and more distantly, "Three Kings", and "Star Wars: Episode 1") have been mentioned as metaphors for West/Iraq relations. "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) could be added to the list, at least as regards the (non-)role of the press.
In "Condor", the hero quashes a rogue CIA operation (simplistically, it's "all about oil"), and the Agency tries to bury the evidence. In the final scene, the hero (Robert Redford) tells a CIA operative that the evidence has been given to the New York Times! His triumph is short lived:
CIA: "How do you know they'll print it? You can take a walk, but how far if they don't print it?"
Redford (Less confident): "Oh, they'll print it."
CIA: "How do you know?"
[An increasingly worried Redford sinks back into the crowd. Freezeframe. Finis.]
-----Original Message-----
From: farbuthnot [mailto:asceptic@freenetname.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:26 PM
To: soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Wag the DogThree
Worth revisiting the above - it's spookily apt. However here in the real world what does the US do in times of crisis (Lewinsky, Flowers and now the REALLY big one - Enron) bomb Iraq. Could they be so blatant again? They will. best, f,