 Complete the following phrase:  Wag the Dog was released one month before the outbreak of the ClintonLewinsky scandal and the subsequent bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and reality. The comparison was also made in December 1998 when the administration initiated a bombing campaign of Iraq during Clintons impeachment trial over the ClintonLewinsky scandal. It was made again in the spring of 1999 when the administration intervened in the Kosovo War and initiated a 