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It goes without saying that David Hare is against the war in Iraq. He's a Left-wing playwright, after all, and it is effectively illegal for such people to support President George W Bush. But what makes his play interesting is that his opposition does, exactly, go without saying.
Except for the slightly sententious and uninteresting final speech by an Iraqi, Stuff Happens is a play, not a polemic. It doesn't insist on a single narrative, although one suspects that Bob Woodward is the main published source. It is a history play - a drama about the motives, conflicts and characters of leaders who have to make decisions with historic consequences.
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