2008-07-02 Believe Me, It's Torture
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- when: 2008/07/02 (2008/07/02)
- source: Vanity Fair
- author: Christopher Hitchens
- topics: torture waterboarding American dishonor
- URL: URL:http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808
- title: Believe Me, It's Torture
- summary: «One used to be told – and surely with truth – that the lethal fanatics of al-Qaeda were schooled to lie, and instructed to claim that they had been tortured and maltreated whether they had been tortured and maltreated or not. Did we notice what a frontier we had crossed when we admitted and even proclaimed that their stories might in fact be true? I had only a very slight encounter on that frontier, but I still wish that my experience were the only way in which the words "waterboard" and "American" could be mentioned in the same (gasping and sobbing) breath.»
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- Commentary: Pharyngula