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Watching David Hare's dramatization of the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq last night at ACT, we were reminded of an email exchange we had that summer with an old college friend. Our friend, a Brit, was at the time starting her career as a history teacher, and if we recall correctly, we wrote her something to the effect of, "You know why World War I started, you know why World War II or Vietnam or Korea or the Falklands started...but in ten years, when your students ask you, 'Why did we invade Iraq?', what are you going to say? What's the explanation going to be?" Her despairing response: "They already are asking. And I don't know what to tell them."

A couple of Seattlest haters went to the Cinerama Wednesday night for one of those SIFF member meetings to freeload champagne and watch the new Stephen Frears movie, The Queen, which is all about the snide back-biting and political maneuvering between Tony Blair and the royal family behind the scenes in the aftermath of Princess Di's death. Lots of media manipulation hijinks, buckets of repressed British hilarity, and some strangely touching moments that somehow managed to move even the coldest, blackest hearts of Seattlest.