Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded

View the video on Vanity Fair's website: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/hitchens_video200808

Read Hitchens' full account of the experience here: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808

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News & Politics

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• christopher
• hitchens
• waterboard
• torture
• CIA
• guantanamo
• vanity
• fair

[bobrusso22]

What in Gods name made you add that music to this video? I want to know the thought process that led you to believe that it somehow it enhanced it.

[Evmonk]

@bobrusso22 hahah, that would be a funny choice if i added it, but that's the music playing in the room where he's being waterboarded. i think i put this video up because vanity fair only had it on their website, not YouTube, but then they put up one here so go check that one out instead.

[Oprime15]

I would love to see a conservative get waterboarded... maybe Hannity unless he pusses out.

[dukeraider2]

"Real torture involves extreme pain and physical disfigurement." no we call that attempted murder where I'm from. if they did it to us troops you'd call it torture

just stop trying to defend bad behavior

[BasilFawlty4444]

@friendlyfire53 I'm sorry, but it is completely wrong to torture people. If their allegiance lies with the enemy then so be it. They must be treated as a prisoner of war who's loyalty lies elsewhere.

Of course, there is always the argument that information through torture can save lives. But this does not change the fact that the practice of torture is barbaric and America should rise above it.

I don't presume to tell Americans how to run their country, but torture is just wrong.

[dano7411]

Well what ever the politics involved, I'll put that aside for a moment to just say I admire this dude for walking the walk, instead of just talking the talk. I do not think we should torture people to get information. I say we kidnap their family, and torture them to get information. (being sarcastic here - unwad your panties)

[friendlyfire53]

I propose this is how we attempt to get information from suspected terrorists:

First we try asking the question three times to see if he has the same syndrome as Mustafa from Austin Powers.

Second we ask please.

Third we ask pretty please.

Fourth we ask pretty please with a cherry on top.

If no information is given after this fool proof plan, he's innocent.

Vote Obama 2012

[OnThe515]

@Oprime15 A few of them did. Every one of them broke within ten seconds. Mancow actually lasted less than three. End result was a bunch of much less ignorant political commentators.

[GruesomeTruth]

Curious how the U.S. media (incl so-called 'liberal' media) suddenly began referring to water-boarding as not torture, but an enhanced technique open to debate--this after many Decades of always referring water-boarding as Torture.

Black is white, White is black, 1984 is back.

[xxanduinexx]

@dukeraider2 They did do it American troops, in WW2. And the US executed the peretrators. Because it was/is defined as torture.

[MuTeHDx]

PKA?

[Rockster969]

@bobrusso22 It's called fucking with your head, a seemingly soothing music clashing with hands on torture and hey, look at these crackah chuckies, right in their element

[coltsrule5150]

wow he lasted what 10 seconds?

[bumzurvaj]

pussy