Filmmaker: No doubt Saddam had WMDs

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?

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?"

"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.

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.