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In this paper, I use both historical documentaries and dramatic depictions to analyze Hare's play Stuff Happens whose plotline about the misrepresented Iraqi war by American policy shocked the public's consciousness. Stuff Happens presents political issues from an alternative viewpoint to that of the traditional media. It's a history lesson about how the world's two superpowers abused their position for colonial and imperial ends, initiatives of colonialism and imperialism. The current situation in Iraq is a result of ten years of sanctions, American occupation, and insurgency. The Iraq War (2003–2011) exemplifies the United States' new grand strategy of employing coercive diplomacy to secure a more prominent role for itself in Middle Eastern affairs, such as oil politics, and to secure the loyalty of a ruling coalition sympathetic to the country's overarching foreign policy objectives.
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