Feed a Flack, Bomb Iraq

"Let's have this damn war and get it over with it," said Doug Dowie, a senior vice president at the Fleishman-Hillard PR firm. Speaking at a Los Angeles meeting of the Public Relations Society of America, Dowie complained that uncertainty connected with the Iraq war has paralyzed client spending. "The sooner we get there the better off most of us are going to be," he predicted.