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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
It's probably unwise for me to personally waterboard Snipe, because of my lack of expertise, and the legal liability.
But if you don't believe waterboarding is torture, you ought to have the balls to be willing to submit to it.
Christopher Hitchens was waterboarded, and he confirms, yes, it is torture.
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I'm gratified we've ceded all authority on what constitutes torture to Christopher Hitchens.
As someone else aptly observed: "torture is any experience so horrible that no-one would consider trying it out simply for the purpose of writing a Vanity Fair article about what it’s like."
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