July 2, 2008


Christopher Hitchens Describes Being Waterboarded

At last, a high profile figure has submitted to being waterboarded.  It’s no surprise to me that it was Christopher Hitchens.  Dick Cheney, who insists that this is not a form of torture, doesn’t have the guts.

See the Vanity Fair video, with a link to Hitchens’s related article, here.

posted by Cindy Scroggins in war 

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4 Responses to “Christopher Hitchens Describes Being Waterboarded”

  1. Pete in Paris on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    So if waterboarding is really torture, shouldn’t these Vanity Fair-sponsored torturers be brought up on criminal charges?

  2. Daryl Scroggins on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    The difference, Pete, is that Hitchens volunteered to test it. So one may as well ask: shouldn’t those lawyers who showed the pornography to jurors in an obscenity case be charged with…showing porn?

  3. Deron Bauman on July 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    Pete, I hope you were being facetious. If not, see above.

  4. Mike D. on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Maybe he was, and maybe he wasn’t, Deron. Only way to know for sure is to waterboard him.

    By the way, what would you like him to have been?

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