I’m not necessarily against torture in extreme circumstances. But it seems to me waterboarding is a kind of torture.

So are you saying we waterboard our own special forces – why?

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You miss the point gaffa…..as usual.
BTW, our special forces guys get waterboarded. You want to tell
me we “torture” our guys?

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@Hard Right
So using that definition would you try it?

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Proof he doesn’t always get it right.
Torture is something that you won’t try “to see what it’s like”.
Waterboarding isn’t torture.

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Yep – he and his brother Peter – are pretty controversial and don’t sit easy anywhere on the limited Left/Right spectrum.

Howabouts this for putting your money where your mouth is…

“Hitchens initially rejected the notion that waterboarding constitutes torture. Subsequently, he was asked by Vanity Fair to experience it for himself. In May 2008, Hitchens voluntarily experienced waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique that has been used on prisoners held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. After the experience he fully changed his opinion. He concluded “if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens

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Hitch should have began punching the scumbag when he wouldn’t let go. I would have.

Nemo me impune lacessit

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There may be more important problems in Lebanon, but if people on Hamra don’t dare criticize the SSNP, well fuck. That’s occupation.”

Yep. Yet you will *never* see *any* of the so called “anti-war” protesters protesting that occupation.

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