http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq_us_france_saddamPARIS (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.