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The MPAA rejected the poster for Alex Gibney’s new Iraq doc on the basis of a hooded figure representing torture. At least that’s the assessment they had when they rejected the original Road to Guantanamo poster:

“the burlap bag over the prisoner’s head depicted torture, which was not appropriate for children to see.”

Here we are arguing over whether or not waterboarding is torture, and the MPAA raises a red flag when a hood goes over someone’s head, much less enough water to almost drown them.

I suddenly find myself wanting to put the MPAA in charge of our foreign policy.