Bleak, borderline nihilistic even, the backdrop of the film is more interested in the direct failures of the Saddam regime than offering any substantial critique of the American imperialist structure that had driven the region into desolation and was actively bombing it (presented instead as an always present inevitability); in turn making the film particularly palatable to a western audience that can consume it within the comfort of any ideology without being overly challenged.
Nevertheless, I don't think of this as a failure of this film itself. Yes, the fact that this film is making the festival grounds and received the funding it did for its production and widespread release illustrates, perhaps, a wider intent of western capital to push global majority cinema only when it is convenient, when it supports the hegemonic status quo. The lack of other perspectives with different critiques, however, is not necessarily inherently indicative of disgenuinity on behalf of the director and screenwriter; to an Iraqi audience, this is not an Iraqi film, it is just a film.