Filmmaker: No doubt Saddam had WMDs

[RETIREDFAN1]

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Filmmaker: No doubt Saddam had WMDs

Real question, he says, should be: Where did they go?

 

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Posted: November 17, 2005

1:00 a.m. Eastern

 

 

 

 

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The producer of a new documentary on Saddam Hussein says there is no question that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

 

The real question he says, should be: Where did they go?

 

 

 

 

Former real estate broker Brad L. Maaske interviewed dozens of Iraqis in producing his film "Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein." He says it is absurd that prominent Democrats, including a former U.S. president, continue to say the former dictator did not possess WMDs.

 

"There's interview after interview of people who say they saw truckloads of something going out through Syria and into the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon," he recalls. "And of course we've tried to track that as best we can. The U.S. military can't go into Syria; it can't go into Lebanon. But the question is: Where did those weapons go?"

 

Maaske says it does not take much to create a weapon of mass destruction.

 

 

"There didn't have to be massive stockpiles of chemicals," he explains. "A few 55-gallon drums of a nerve gas could kill a million people if properly dispersed, so it's not that difficult for him to get rid of what he had."

 

The documentary, now available on DVD, exposes the historical facts about Saddam's rise to power, his world-defiant reign of terror, and the events leading to his demise. More than mere facts and figures, the work brings to life faces, names, and stories that encompass the unimaginable 1.3 million lives exterminated by Saddam's reign of terror.

 

Frustrated by the media coverage about Saddam's evil empire, Maaske left his lucrative career to buy a video camera and begin a quest to uncover the true story and give voice to those who could not be heard -- the Iraqi people.

 

Maaske's journey led him around the world, from California to Iraq — to the gravesites and into the souls of the families shattered by the dictator.

 

From interviews with the prosecution team trying Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali, to the framers of the Iraqi Constitution, to the Iraqi orphanages, to patrols with the Iraqi and U.S. forces in Iraq, "Weapon of Mass Destruction" provides long-overdue evidence that millions of people were living in a perpetual hell inflicted by Saddam.

 

"Weapon of Mass Destruction" reveals:

 

The span of Saddam's rise to power, eventual demise, and progress in Iraq

Never-before-seen footage of chemical attacks, murders and torture leveled against the Kurdish population of Iraq spanning more than two decades

Intimate, never-before-revealed footage of the heroes of Sept. 11

The heart-wrenching interview with the parents of fallen soldier Daniel Unger and his memorial service in Maaske's hometown in California.

In fact, in "WMD" Michael Moore gets the ambush interview treatment he often reserves for others. The filmmakers staked out his New York residence for days until he came out to meet the camera.

 

But the hard edge of "WMD" are eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen footage of chemical attacks, murders and torture leveled against the Kurdish population of Iraq dating from Saddam Hussein's rise to power and spanning more than two decades.

 

Pivotal to Maaske's decision to develop "WMD" was his meeting with Jano Rosebiani, an award-winning Kurdish movie director who had documented the atrocities in his film "Mass Graves." Rosebiani had lost family members during "Anfal," Hussein's carefully orchestrated campaign of genocide targeting Kurds in northern Iraq from 1986 to 1988.

 

"When I saw Jano Rosebiani's film, it broke my heart," Maaske said. "I knew this was a story that had to be told, but until now, no one had stepped up to the plate to tell it."

 

 

Also important to the story are scenes from "Chemical Ali," a documentary by Kurdish filmmaker Kawa Akrawi, who assisted in the production of "WMD."

 

At least 182,000 Kurds in Iraq were murdered or are missing and presumed dead. Entire villages were razed. Authorities on Iraq estimate that 1.3 million people have died as a direct result of Hussein's acts of terror since 1979.

 

The movie includes moments of comic relief and powerful imagery from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

[cheaptrick77]

Oh, you guys will believe this filmmaker -- gotcha :thumbsup:

 

:D

 

I guess it’s only propaganda if you don’t believe it :whistle:

[Straw]

Originally posted by cheaptrick77

Oh, you guys will believe this filmmaker -- gotcha :thumbsup:

 

:D

 

I guess it’s only propaganda if you don’t believe it :whistle:

 

I dont remember Moore interviewing Iraqies and Kurds.

[cheaptrick77]

I think he did interview Iraqies -- or at least had video sound bites from them.

[RETIREDFAN1]

Sound byte do NOT an interview make. :rolleyes:

[Straw]

Also Moore proved himself illegitimate when he fabricated most of the Bowling for Columbine movie. He called it a documentary but spliced together interviews to make them look like one. Pretty shady if you ask me.:tongue:

[cheaptrick77]

Originally posted by Colmesneilfan1

Sound byte do NOT an interview make

Unless you can take it out of context to support your agenda (a practice of which both "sides" are guilty) .......... :whistle:

[WildcatPride]

"There's interview after interview of people who say they saw truckloads of something going out through Syria and into the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon," he recalls. "And of course we've tried to track that as best we can. The U.S. military can't go into Syria; it can't go into Lebanon. But the question is: Where did those weapons go?"

 

Roger this.

[RETIREDFAN1]

Originally posted by cheaptrick77

 

Unless you can take it out of context to support your agenda (a practice of which both "sides" are guilty) .......... :whistle:

 

Which is what the hero of the left, Michael Moore did. That has not been shown to be the case in the film discussed in the article above.