hypothetical
EYES ONLY
American Enterprise Institute
memo to Dick Cheney:

The more succesful motivations for a public to desire war have been acts of terrorism and kidnapping on the high seas. Due to the remoteness of the crime there are few problems regarding witnesses or enhancement of the facts.
A record of repeated incidents culminating in a sensationalized act of kidnapping, terror and torture have been demograghicly tested and show that the most effective victims are ; (in order of effectivness) kidnapping of the commander and chief, his family, his extended family, young women, high government officials, their families, and lastly sevicemen.
The most reproducible scenario would be the reported kidnapping of the first lady and children.