Writer Christopher Hitchens is asked by the Vanity Fair Magazine if he would submit to being waterboarded and then write about the experience. See the results in the video.
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Dodd
Why do you hate America so much?
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Dr. Dud, MikeNeoconbot, etc.
I’ve asked this before and never gotten an answer:
How many ‘in the field’ (now retired) intelligence agents have you spoken to about torture?
J/P=?
“DR” Dood
So why aren’t we “allowed to” win?
“There are several reasons but the most important is as soon as a victory is declared all US forces will have to leave. To keep it going allows a footprint to remain in the form of a staging area for any future Middle East unrest.”
What are you new?
How many “Permanent” bases are we constructing in Iraq (somewhere between 14 and 58) We will have a permanent force of 50-100k in Iraq for the next 20 years, or until the oil runs out which ever comes first.
Waterboarding doesn’t work if you know the guys aren’t going to drown you.
Maybe if hitchens was woken up at 2am at home, tossed in a van and dunked in a bathtub for an hour while being yelled at and beaten…and don’t tell him beforehand that it was going to happen, then he would get the full experience.
Good point Mustard.
Bobbo, at least you are making the right argument. Awhile back on this board, people were arguing that ‘torture never works.’ They were trying to take the easy way out.
I’m not sure there’s much lost in terms of enemies’ opinion. They were already spreading tales of torture, flushing Korans, Abu Ghraib, etc. I don’t think waterboarding makes things look much worse.
Of course there’s plenty lost in terms of we don’t want to commit torture.
Bobbo:
Rudeness and vilification doesn’t make your argument more coherent, convincing and superior. It just makes people not listen to you. You grossly misinterpreted my statements and beliefs to conform to your ‘black and white’ world view.