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Chris Hitchens submits himself to torture


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Author and journalist Chris Hitchens had in the past declared that waterboarding, the practice of pouring water into the breathing passageways of a person, might not be classed as torture but as "extreme interrogation" so Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter challenged him to undergo the process. He is now very much convinced it is torture.

The "official lie" about waterboarding, Hitchens says, is that it "simulates the feeling of drowning". In fact, "you are drowning - or rather, being drowned".
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4 responses // Chris Hitchens submits himself to torture

  • http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/...
    There is also a somewhat unimpressive video of the ordeal here.
    mcshed
  • http://current.com/items/76347282_getting_waterboarded
    Here's a pod with Kaj getting waterboarded.
    abbym0308
  • Good for them: that's real journalism! The only thing more repulsive than the thought of going through that torture is the fact that the government used it and defend its use to this day.

    Just because something doesn't leave a mark, doesn't mean it can't be torture. It appears that government officials who permit this are either a particularly dangerous kind of stupid, or else are deliberately going against the Geneva convention; however I would be inclined to suspect both.
    rwylie
  • I don't have a problem with Hitchens being water-boarded. Honestly, he had it coming. Even when he writes attack pieces on monsters like Kissinger and former Latin American dictators, it is hard not to have just as much contempt for Hitchens himself. I'm not a fan, I guess, is my point. But I at least have a modicum of respect for the s.o.b.

    I propose no one be allowed to advocate or defend water-boarding without first being made to submit to it. Maybe, in what is nothing but a fantasy, members of the Bush Administration will be detained overseas and given an "enhanced interrogation" in the future. I'd, of course, object to the blatant violation of international law and human rights, but half-heartedly.

    Anyway, I challenge any moral person on this website to watch John Yoo and David Addington testifying before Congress and not want to water-board the scumbags.
    http://newsproject.org/node/82
    Brendan_M

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