New documentary indicts US as co-defendant with Saddam

[maddezmom]

PARIS (AFP) - What if Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) were to have a genuinely fair trial? That is the central question of a hard-hitting documentary to be aired on French television.


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 (news - web sites) 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.


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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is shown in a clip from Iraqi television shaking hands with Saddam in 1983 when he was president Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s special representative for the Middle East.


Shown the clip 20 years later, Rumsfeld muses: "Where did you get this video? ... Isn't that interesting? There I am."

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=732&e=6&u=/afp/20041025/lf_afp/iraq_us_france_saddam

Yes, isn't that interesting???

[lakeguy]

1. give it some votes!

[UpInArms]

2. they left out one of my fave players in all of this

(at least in the article)

James A. Baker III - Secretary of State

The film shows a meeting between then US ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam eight days before the invasion in which she assures him that Washington will take "no position in the event of any border conflict between Iraq and Kuwait."

[Mokito]

3. Hmm...Go figure.

Copies of the documentary have been ordered by television outlets in Canada, Japan and Australia, but "American stations are not interested," Despratx told AFP.

[Disturbed]

4. "American stations are not interested"

Of course not! This wouldn't be a favorable reality to Americans.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. The degree of their disinterest is inversely proportional to the

degree of interest that the American people would have to see this aired.

Isn't it amazing how we have let the line out in various countries over the years... only to reel it back in again when the time was convenient.

Making despots to break despots. When will the real players be brought up on trial for their machinations and manipulations of entire societies and monetary systems?

You can do wrong for only so long... regardless the size of your navy, air force army etc.....

www.brusselstribunal.org

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/audio/Art_Bell/art%20bell%20-%20Mike%20Ruppert%20-%20The%20%20Truth%20&%20Lies%20of%20911%20%28pt1%29.mp3

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/audio/Art_Bell/art%20bell%20-%20Mike%20Ruppert%20-%20The%20%20Truth%20&%20Lies%20of%20911%20%28pt2%29.mp3