If you see *Fahrenheit 9/11*, see this movie too

Saddam's Mass Graves

While Democrats party with champagne and caviar in Boston and fete Michael Moore for his propagandistic movie “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a documentary is making the rounds in the heartland that makes a compelling case for President Bush.

Last week in Washington, Iraqi documentary film producer Jano Rosebiani began a cross-country tour of his new “Saddam’s Mass Graves,” a poignant examination of Iraqis who thank President Bush every day for what the filmmaker calls unabashedly the “gift of life.” ...

While Democrats party with champagne and caviar in Boston and fete Michael Moore for his propagandistic movie “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a documentary is making the rounds in the heartland that makes a compelling case for President Bush.

Last week in Washington, Iraqi documentary film producer Jano Rosebiani began a cross-country tour of his new “Saddam’s Mass Graves,” a poignant examination of Iraqis who thank President Bush every day for what the filmmaker calls unabashedly the “gift of life.” ...

But if patrons expect the slapstick partisan style of Moore, they should be forewarned that “Graves” offers not a single image of Bush. “I wanted to keep the message absolutely free of politics,” Rosebiani told NewsMax.

And this he does religiously – even cutting tempting footage of gushing families in northern Iraq who have named their new baby sons “Bush,” always politely shaking off the suggestion that Bush is a last name in America. ...

Rosebiani is the first to agree that his film does not have the raw entertainment flair of “Fahrenheit.” After all, his is a most serious subject that leaves precious little room for levity.

The quiet man is a bit shy when he suggests to NewsMax that Moore’s film was engineered to appeal on some levels to the “dumb and dumber” set.

His own raw images of unimaginable suffering and cruelty lead the viewer inexorably to a number of conclusions.

Paramount is the lesson that Hussein could have only been stopped by direct military intervention.

Second is that the carnage under his regime was biblical – Hussein outright murdered an estimated 300,000 civilians. In the so called “Anfal” ethnic cleansing of 1988 -– alone -- 4000 villages were wiped from the face of the earth. ...

There are 270 known mass grave sites in the battered country. Rosebiani tells NewsMax that he suspects his countrymen will find even more – during the course of a painstaking forensic exercise that may take 50 years to complete."

I'd really like to get my eyes on this film (as well as Moore's *Fahrenheit*), but this notice on the Voice of America is the closest link I've found.