New documentary indicts US as co-defendant with Saddam
Monday, November 1, 2004 at 03:58PM
TheSpook
What if Saddam Hussein were to have a genuinely fair trial? That is the
central question of a hard-hitting documentary to be aired on French
television Tuesday. Michel Despratx of France's Canal Plus television
teamed with independent Canadian filmmaker Barry Lando to produce "The
Trial of Saddam Hussein, the Trial You'll Never See." The 43-minute
film begins with frank and graphic highlights of Saddam's brutal reign.
But it soon delves into a history of collusion going back to the
cataclysmic Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, when Washington, fully aware
that Saddam was using mustard and nerve gas against Iranian civilians,
calculated that it was better to keep backing him as the lesser of two
evils. "There are your options. Neither one palatable," says retired
Air Force Captain Rick Fontana in the film. US Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld is shown in a clip from Iraqi television shaking hands with
Saddam in 1983 when he was President Ronald Reagan's special
representative for the Middle East. [more ]
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