Censorship of Chomsky is not unique. The Pentagon has long pressured Hollywood to show the military in a favorable light. It also bans photographers from war zones if they snap pictures of slain U.S. troops. "I took pictures of something they didn't like, and they removed me (from Iraq), complained photographer Zoriah Miller who, like Chomsky, may also be said to be angry. "Deciding what I can and cannot document, I don't see a clearer definition of censorship, he said.
Back to Chomsky: What has he written the Pentagon doesn't want Gitmo prisoners to read? Perhaps it's where he quotes President Bush's remark "the United States---alone---has the right to carry out ˜preventive war'"using military force to eliminate a perceived threat" Chomsky adds this is the "supreme crime condemned at Nuremberg.
If the Pentagon is upset over "Interventions they'll be really ticked at Chomsky's "Imperial Ambitions(Metropolitan Books). In that book, he writes about how the Pentagon's troops burst into Falluja General Hospital, (November, 2004) on asinine grounds it was "a center of propaganda against allied forces, and kicked the patients out of their beds and handcuffed them and their doctors to the floor, which Chomsky rightly branded "a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.
The Pentagon might also oppose Chomsky for accusing them of genocide: "If civilians managed to flee Falluja, they were allowed out---except for men. Men of roughly military age were turned back. That's what happened in Srebrenica in 1995. The only difference is the United States bombed the Iraqis out of the city, they didn't truck them out. Women and children were allowed to leave; men were stopped, if they were found, and sent back. They were supposed to be killed. That's universally called genocide, when the Serbs do it. When we do it, it's liberation.
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