As Libertas notes, "Yeah, this will make money":

[Filmmaker] NICK Broomfield … is under fire for his latest, “Battle for Haditha,” a probe into the 2005 Marine massacre of 24 men, women and kids in Haditha, Iraq, allegedly in retaliation for the bombing death of one jarhead. The flick, opening May 7 at Film Forum, features former enlisted Marines portraying the killers in explicit reenactments of what some call “Bush’s My Lai ,” and is being slammed as a smear job. One group, Defend Our Marines, states … Broomfield claimed he’d show the world the “unflinching truth” about Haditha, but instead had actors improvise phony, obscenity-filled dialogue as they shot innocent civilians. One scene in which an Iraqi is gunned down as he flees through a field is said to be completely fictional. Charges against five of eight Marines involved have been dropped so far.

Cue the refrains of "fake but accurate", and "emotional truth" that are sure to come.

Most of Broomfield's previous documentaries were feminist-themed movies. As an interviewer asked him, "You seem to focus a lot on strange women in your films":

PM: You know, Courtney, Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss and, uh, Margaret Thatcher. Is that more than coincidence?

NB: I think I am more interested in women than in men. But I have made twenty three films, and under slightly half of those have to do with men. For example, I did a movie about the head of the neo-nazi party in South Africa. But the more high profile films that have been shown in this country have to do with women.

However, I do find women more interesting. You know, women have been through a lot more interesting changes than men over the last twenty years. They went through the whole feminist movement, and I think the position of women has really changed in society in terms of what's expected of them and from them. And the women I choose are all moderately powerful.

Hmmm--I guess there was a dearth of "moderately powerful" women in the Middle East for Broomfield to film. Can't imagine why that is, (though maybe Ms. magazine knows) but I suppose covering that story would be a documentary too far, lest he join Theo van Gogh in the great editing bay in the sky. Best make nice, safe, perfectly reactionary boilerplate about the big bad U.S. instead.