The "official lie" about waterboarding, Hitchens says, is that it "simulates the feeling of drowning". In fact, "you are drowning - or rather, being drowned".
I have to give the guy credit. After being adamant about waterboarding not being torture, he agreed to be waterboarded. And then, armed with new facts, he changed his mind.
Cue the attacks from the "Torture a Spic for Jesus" crowd (credit where due for that name). For short, I just call them the armchair sadists.
I don't want my country to torture. This is yet more evidence of how much I clearly hate my country.
Posted by James at July 2, 2008 7:45 PM