We've learned that BuzzFlash readers are not particularly interested in documentaries about the military in Iraq or Abu Ghraib (with the exception of Robert Greenwald's "Iraq for Sale"). Perhaps, like us, our readers know how horrible the Bush actions over there have been. Our minds are made up. Why have the horror rubbed in our faces?

But we are highly recommending this little treasure of a documentary that captures the Kafkaesque Bushevik enterprise known as the Iraq War: "The Prisoner Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair."

It took Anne Frank, the story of one teenage girl, to capture the dreadful crimes of the Nazis in killing millions of people. That is because we, through her diary, came to know Anne Frank as a young woman filled with hope, intelligence, youthful romance, family conflicts, and fear. She came to represent the deaths of millions, because she embodied so much promise and the dreams of youth.

In the case of "The Prisoner," we come to learn of one episode of absurd injustice through the narration of one Yunis Khatayer Abbas. Abbas is an earnest Iraqi journalist from a close knit family. He dreams of becoming a famous reporter on CNN.

One night, he and his three brothers are inexplicably arrested by American forces. (We see the actual video footage of the arrest for reasons that become clear when you view the film.) Only after he is seized and interrogation begins does Abbas learn that they were taken prisoners because the American military was accusing them of plotting to kill Tony Blair, which, as you will learn from the documentary, is laughably ludicrous.

What makes this documentary so engaging is that Abbas has a droll sense of absurdist humor that allows him to endure nine months in a tent detention camp on the Abu Ghraib grounds. This is a site where thousands of Iraqis were detained for the sole reason that the Busheviks didn't want to release them because it would have proven that not everyone at Abu Ghraib was guilty of anything at all relating to the war. In fact, the vast majority were detained for no justifiable reason at all.

Finally, Abbas is taken to the "hard jail" at Abu Ghraib, questioned for two weeks, at the end of which he was brought into a military commander's office. The commander told him that he was free to go with his brothers, that their arrest had been a mistake, and that the American military was "sorry" about it.

As Abbas tells his story -- in retrospect -- the film is divided into chapters. When video footage was not available, appropriate cartoon-like graphics are used to illustrate various encounters.

Of particular irony is the fact that in the late '90s Abbas was arrested and tortured by Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, for writing about the Western boycott of Iraq. Then too, he was abruptly released -- after a chilling meeting with Saddam Hussein himself.

"The Prisoner" is a testament to the ability of Abbas to maintain a perspective not unlike Kurt Vonnegut on the twists and turns of his misfortunes and the blessings of his loving family.

And, yes, there are also good and decent American soldiers who Abbas meets, including one reservist named Thompson, who is interviewed back in the States, long after the detention that is the subject of the film.

Thompson represents what we have longed for, the caring soldier who connected with the humanity of his "prisoners" and sought to assist them as best he could.

Abbas was deeply grateful for that.