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I'm just thinking: I'm going to need to be armed ... I've had a special request. Ladies. BLAIR: We can't do this. Kind of a special occasion. AN ACTOR: But next day it is a speech of Jacques Chirac which finally gives Blair a chance to go back on his promise of a second resolution. BUSH: We have confidence in you. "Stuff happens and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. The Englishmen are all in dark suits with black ties. (CHENEY pauses a moment before taking aim) Assuming I have subscribed to Creative Cloud for some years, and some circumstance leads me to cancel my subscription, what happens to my work after cancellation. POWELL: I'm saying nowadays we seem to be full of plans. BUSH: Sure. I am committed and America is committed to implementing our road map towards peace. AN ACTOR: On April 14th 2004, President Bush invites Ariel Sharon to the White House. BUSH: Yeah. WOLFOWITZ: Oh sure, you can do it ... AN ACTOR: On November 13th, after five years under an extreme religious regime, the Northern Alliance enter and liberate the capital Kabul. AN ACTOR: A British Foreign Office official observes: Stuff Happens (Review). BLIX: I'd be delighted. RUMSFELD: I'd like to move on to a subject I think important. I longed for the fall of the dictator. And the present policy of being as high-handed as possible with as many countries as possible is profoundly counter-productive. RICE: The real danger to the region ... I've got a solution. AN ACTOR: The unscripted use of the plural ... All nations should know: America will do whatever is necessary to ensure our nation's security. (JACK STRAW steps forward) AN ACTOR: Moments later, they are ushered into the Oval Office. She followed this man-made discourse to be accepted within the literary circle as a successful woman writer, but she (BUSH, alone, looks at us a moment) RICE: We need a few more evenings like that. MANNING: Shame we don't live there, really. 2. JACK STRAW: The president's speech can be best understood by the fact there are mid-term Congressional elections coming up in November. The other French. It's all very good, I agree. He wants your name on the notepaper, that's all. I want to see diplomacy exhausted. This guy, Saddam Hussein, is a leader who gasses his own people. It will break very easily. The UN has 173 pages of concerns about weapons of mass destruction. (CAMPBELL waits a moment) We put ourselves back in the diplomatic mudpit, is that right? All we want is a headline "US achieves Iraq resolution." (BUSH is thoughtful, seemingly immune to the atmosphere between his colleagues) (Everyone closes their eyes) POWELL: One thing I know: armies make plans. Frees me to make decisions which others might not like. (BUSH nods and looks at him a moment) BUSH: I see. BLAIR: George. But beyond that? We did Afghanistan. On a plane back from a tour of the Far East, he makes four pages of notes, next day he asks to see the President. ELBARADEI: Good morning, Mr President. BLAIR: If this house now demands that at this moment, faced with this threat from this regime, that British troops are pulled back, that we turn away at the point of reckoning - what then? POWELL: That's why I wanted to see you. BUSH: God told me to strike Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. BUSH: No. The leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook, stands up to resign. BLIX: I do in with a great deal of knowledge. ale experience divided and isolated from the public one to maintain their superiority over women. I've been concerned about you. BUSH: Israel's an independent nation. Sir David Hare. January 30th 2001, President Bush presides for the first time at a meeting of the National Security Council. POWELL: Blair's loyal. TO . There's a powerful case for war. MANNING: This is fantastic! AN ACTOR: The invasion begins. Before we commit young Americans to give their lives? What is this thing you've got about loyalty? CHENEY: We're going to war! At this moment, just at this very moment, I'm finding the subject of Iraq seems to be moving up the agenda. There is nothing to say) Then place the earbuds in your ears as shown. The world would be better off without him. CHENEY: You know, we're sure there are weapons there. But there are also dangers for us. WOLFOWITZ: Ten to fifty. (POWELL is looking at him in dismay) It's an option. NEGROPONTE: That was a glitch! Aren't I always the guy who brings the bad news? BUSH: We'll begin this meeting as we always do. It's not a bad thing to be, is it? Can't the Americans do it by themselves? BLAIR: Yeah. Who we go against is going to decide who goes with us. MANNING: There was always a danger. We want to take out Osama bin Laden, we want to take out Musharraf. Hare caught characteristics of speech and timing in the dialogue, yet these aspects created only the surface of a multifaceted look at the events leading to war. (There's a deadly silence. Silence. AN ACTOR: Bush will lose the popular vote by a margin of 539, 898. That's what I'm trying to avoid. POWELL: Maybe because my whole life has been in the army I'm less impressed than some people by the use of force. (Everyone is crowded around the photograph) POWELL: No. That's where I'd put it. BLAIR: That's what we need. BUSH: A model, it's a kind of model ... The second act begins with a direct speech to the audience by a Palestinian academic who explains... ‘Verbatim Theatre’ has been the term utilized by Derek Paget during his extensive researches into that form of documentary drama which employs (largely or exclusively) tape-recorded material from the ‘real-life’ originals of the characters and events to which it gives dramatic shape. WOLFOWITZ: Self-financing. We've all been looking at the intelligence, we've all been assessing it. We have to go after Al Qaeda and get its leader. Spelt out - very simply, very clearly, about the dangers of Iraq developing and using their weapons of mass destruction. BLAIR, DAVID MANNER, JONATHAN POWEL, and ALASTAIR CAMPBELL are in Blair's den in Downing Street) And, for me, those come above everything. (RUMSFELD leaves) BLAIR: Why can't people understand? Put it to good purpose? BUSH: You can be assured, Mr Blix, you've got the force of the United States behind you. But it's also one of the most misunderstood medical conditions out there. (The two of them look, unforgiving) Because we can see - we're getting used to this - Europeans are always more worried about how exactly American reacts to the threat of Saddam than they are about Saddam himself. The absurdity and the irrelevance. But you look at the vast numbers of other countries in Europe. We're at that fork. AN ACTOR: At once, alarm bells start to go off in European capitals. Sorry to hear about that. BLAIR: Well, John ... you know it has always been our policy that Iraq would be a better place without Saddam Hussein. The first meeting, we take the Middle East. It's a judgement. What were the conditions, Tony? AN ACTOR: He then addresses his team in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center: RICE: How you getting on? WOLFOWITZ: You do know they have the weapons, don't you? That is the purpose of getting us snared up in yet another fucking resolution. In one place. AN ACTOR: On June 4th 2003, George Bush, who by then, has used the word "evil" in 319 separate speeches since becoming President, reveals to the Palestinian Prime Minister: [25] Stuart, Amanda Fisher. Because ... well, back at home, you probably know, you've probably heard ... you've been taking soundings of your own ... CHARACTERIZATION AS A MEANS OF DRAMATIZING THE JOURNEY OF WAR. 100 million protestors in 600 cities demand the right of the inspectors to complete their work. Material. POWELL: I'm not thinking like that. You don't understand" is the new dispensation, then why not "You're not Chechen?" They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things, and that's what's going to happen here. Because it was unfinished business - "He tried to kill my Dad." And you stay loyal. What influence? POWELL: Yeah I've seen it. POWELL: That's not what we're doing. AN ACTOR: In the balcony above him is the British Prime Minister. (BLIX and MOHAMED ELBARADEI arrive smiling at a piece of paper they both hold) RICE: This is not about American politics, and I assume that when the British government speaks about foreign policy, it's not about British politics. I'm not saying this shit! It seems the easiest way of disentangling your two different aims. RICE: "That's what happens." We both recognize the danger of a man who's willing to kill his own people harbouring and developing weapons of mass destruction. POWELL: Dominique, even Kofi welcomes our presence. Thus, the study concludes that the female subject in Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers suffered the BUSH: Colin, I'd be grateful if you'd stay on a moment. Of course. POWELL: Of course I'm all right. RICE: I think we ought to keep our eye on that. BUSH: It would be a big thing. DE VILLEPIN: By our reckoning, by the time we get to the pastry you'll be on your way to putting some 60,000 military personnel into the region. POWELL: There's an element of hypocrisy, George. POWELL: Blair is going to be asking us to help him secure a second resolution. The rest of you, excellent contributions. BUSH: Huh. (DE VILLEPIN smiles) I don't want to see it terminated. RICE: I'm proud to be able to say: Paul O'Neill will have the New York stock exchange open on Monday. Not ours. POWELL: It'd be nice to pretend we even have a choice. I mean, really! AN ACTOR: The president is moved to an underground bunker at Strategic Command, Offutt Air Base, Nebraska. MANNING: Cheney'll get to him. Stuff Happens: David Hare's history play seems even more incisive after Chilcot Hare’s condemnatory 2004 drama feels positively Shakespearean in … (MANNING looks at his fingernails, the diplomat) Because Cheney worked for Halliburton. The military and the diplomatic. 6. He sees it as a way of exerting pressure to enforce the will of the UN. Yeah. Bush has used you. This is a man with a history. (There's a silence) You want us to do nothing? Those were the conditions. We can see this dialogical form of. DE VILLEPIN drums his fingers on the table) BUSH: Ah yes. Hold. (POWELL waits for this to sink in) DE VILLEPIN: I accept that. Whose views condoned? But Downing Street senses an escape route at last. (POWELL shakes his head) The President's view is that the time has come to tilt back towards Israel. (BUSH gets up. Everyone accepts the word "and." It's about them. It isn't you that makes that decision. AN ACTOR: In the second week of the new year, Rice flags an issue which has been disturbing her. She. Deterrence - the promise of massive retaliation against nations - means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend. RICE: What I want to put to you is: it's understood, you work for the UN, they're your masters, we accept that. BUSH: I don't know where he is. DE VILLEPIN: According to the polls. DE VILLEPIN: War is always the sanction of failure. MANNING: Yes. It can make things really clear. POWELL: All right. Because the man is a lunatic and we can't afford the risk that one day he might team up with terrorists. (There is a silence. (POWELL is not buying it) 44% believe the hijackers were Iraqi. RUMSFELD: Before the war started, I presented the president with a list of about fifteen things that would go terribly, terribly wrong. And you can see everyone in the room thinking: "OK. Then why didn't you tell the French to fuck off?" BUSH: Sounded like you'd been waiting a long time. And the only place to do it is at the UN. BLAIR: An actual piece of paper. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. (This is all joshing but now POWELL raises his voice) It would be great to say we can invade Iraq unilaterally. If one were looking for David Hare's particular authorial presence in the play, it might be found in the insistent reminders of how the Arab-Israeli conflict was involved with and embedded in the Iraqi war planning. No other story obtains. The decisions been made and I'm going to offer a notion of how it should be presented. BLAIR: In theory, I agree with the idea. We put out a statement tomorrow ... AN ACTOR: When Cheney moves into elected politics, he is already uncompromising. The Romans would always go out of their way to make an announcement: "You are now dealing with the Roman Empire." That's what he says. If you have a problem with that decision, best thing is you should speak. The study concludes that David Hare used the verbatim. We need to know more about the weapons. BLAIR: That's the reason I'm calling. (Golimowska, 2012, 6), advisors that surrounded Bush and Tony Blair and their negotiating of war. But, to be frank, with you, I've seen an awful lot of factories around the world that look an awful lot like this. Is this or is this not an organization which still has the authority to enforce its own resolutions? 2. Goodnight, Prime Minister. (S. H, 86), narrators who are called ‘Actors’. RUMSFELD: We don't need lectures from Europe on how to hold our knives and forks. GREENSTOCK: Dominique, Jean-David. We put the monkey on Kofi Annan's back. WOLFOWITZ: Everyone's terrified. Only Via Dolorosa (1998), self-performed after an in-depth visit to the Middle East, reminded audiences of Hare's strongest creative identity as a deeply aware, trenchant observer of the effects of politics on human lives. We were trading with the guy! RUMSFELD: The authority to act comes from the will of the people. Quite simply, the form owes its present health and exciting potential to the flexibility and unobtrusiveness of the portable cassette recorder - ironically, a technological weapon against which are ranged other mass technological media such as broadcasting and the press, which tend to marginalize the concerns and emphases of popular oral history. BUSH: It's good to be eating this kind of food. Upon his taking up office, he will observe: NEGROPONTE: You know perfectly well: When the president said he was going to "bring forward resolutions" what he meant was "resolution." (A media scrum, flash photos and a proud GENERAL) existing imperial discourse. What is the word for those who claim to love democracy and yet who will not fight to extend democracy to Arabs as well? RICE: I work best as a filter, I think. I don't understand what we're doing. POWELL: Iraq? BLAIR: I have to demonstrate that threat or I can't go to war. You've been loyal to the Americans. DE VILLEPIN: The most popular man in America. (There is another short silence) Always happy to take time. BLAIR: They haven't actually stopped. RICE: The CIA director's going to brief us, get us up to speed on the latest intelligence. RUMSFELD: Don't say "bogged down" ... BUSH: The full resources of the federal government will be employed to investigate and find those folks who committed this act. Wartime rape is a widespread phenomenon that accompanies most wars and conflicts, especially contemporary ones, yet there is much misconception about it. DE VILLEPIN: Are we going to eat first? New Labour. BUSH: I think regime change sounds a lot more civil, doesn't it? DE VILLEPIN: All the same. We appreciate the rain that the Prime Minister brought with him. We will not stop for winter. Then BUSH speaks) RICE: I am. TENET: I'm not. PAXMAN: But they weren't facts and conclusions. CHENEY: Maybe you do. It's not unknown ... A decision was made - George, I'm not saying you made it, I'm sure it wasn't you - whoever - I tune it out. Basically it's a story of a nation that has failed in only one thing. DE VILLEPIN: Whatever. (S. H, 102), communicational incompetence makes him strong. AN ACTOR: An ex-math whiz, Wolfowitz is in love with the idea of national greatness. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Unlock the mysteries and inner workings of the world through one of the most imaginative art forms ever -- mathematics -- with Roger Antonsen, as he explains how a slight change in perspective can reveal patterns, numbers and formulas as … And more important - talking about sending messages - I'd say there's a good percentage chance Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center. BLAIR: Now you and I know we're way ahead of ourselves. DINNER GUEST: But you can sleep if 50,000 have died? DEARLOVE: The protocol of intelligence ... BLAIR: It was late before I had any politics at all. That's where my first loyalty lies. (CHENEY moves into a TV studio) And it's an open agenda. To use the Apple Earphones: m Plug the earphones into the earphone port on iPod shuffle. It's me. (The press mob go). Why now? (BUSH turns to POWELL) Not my mother at all. BLAIR: You don't. (There is a silence. WOLFOWITZ: So I've been thinking about it. All rights reserved. CHENEY: Because you like it both ways, don't you, Colin? Scenes of direct speeches by real characters are part of this theatre dramatized to present a new reading of a historical event. That very thing. The official Diplomacy rule book recommends setting aside about four hours to play, though presumably the game could last a much longer or shorter period of time depending on what transpires. I mean, people say to me "Look, tell America." Then Donald Rumsfeld said "Stuff happens." I've told them to withdraw. (BLAIR waits) With equal partners. He thought it would work too. He's really blown it. 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