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« Joe Cocker is a little unintelligible, isn't he? | Main | I Was With Them Until the Part About the Lid » Believe Me, It's TortureChristopher Hitchens, who i often think of as a complete wanker, recently took the suggestion of critics, who took issue with his attempt to draw a distinction between "extreme interrogation" and "torture", and got himself water-boarded. So what did it feel like? Hitchens recounts how he was lashed tightly to a sloping board, then, "on top of the hood, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose ... I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and - as you might expect - inhale in turn." It's nice that he did try it and it did open his eyes. But he's still a wanker and a moron if he needed to actually have it done to him to know it was torture. Even Attorney General Mukasey knows without trying first hand that it would feel like torture if it were done to him. By min | July 2, 2008, 11:46 AM | Liberal Outrage |