Chris Hitchens didn’t believe Waterboarding should be considered torture and was willing to demonstrate it on camera.
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The code word was red but he keeps yelling read…
*Christopher
Still waiting for hannity ….
I’m honestly very surprised that he lasted more than one shot of water. I can’t remember the details, but there was a radio show where one of the hosts was saying it must not be that bad, and the other two hosts argued with him, so they had someone come in and waterboard the disbelieving host. He immediately, immediately asked them to stop, and I’ve honestly never heard someone so panicked.
I was in the Marine Corps, and my instructor at combat school had what you might call a PTSD attack related to his time in Iraq, and the radio host I mentioned sounded more panicked than that. That first interview stayed with me so much that watching this video made me nervous knowing secondhand how bad it was.
Christopher if you will please.
respect for walking the walk though. Changed his mind.
2022 mfs would genuinely go to war to have the footage deleted, then go on stream and say they went through it just fine
Christopher, he would have sternly reminded you.
I wish our culture was more open to, and celebratory of, people changing their mind. Especially in circumstances like this where they were willing to experience something.
Every single politician who supported this during the Bush administration should have had to undergo. Every one. Anyone who refused should have been publicly mocked for being a chickenshit hypocrite every time they opened their mouth.
The fact that we did this and worse to people, many of them without ever bringing any charges against them, for years, makes me hate this country so much. We deserve all the shame and global humiliation coming to us in the next half century.
It’s interesting that he said in the post interview that he’d give you the information you wanted quite quickly but what if you didn’t have it? Reminds me of a quote from Burn Notice who had actual ex-spies on the writing staff as advisors:
>Torture is like going grocery shopping with a flamethrower, it doesn’t help you in getting what you want and just leaves a huge mess behind. Because torture doesn’t get you the truth, it gets you whatever answer they think will make the pain stop.
Sean Hannity said he would be water boarded to show it “wasn’t torture”. He chickened out.
He manned up unlike Sean Hannity who still hasn’t tried it. Don’t know why he’s so afraid considering it’s ‘not’ torture according to him.
Fun fact, anyone can experiance this in the comfort of their own home!
Just take a small hand towel into the shower with you. Turn on the shower as normal, put the towel across your face, and then face the shower.
It only takes a second or so before you will feel the panic and need to stop. It’s incredible just how effective and “low tech” this form of horror is.
He did this video because he wasn’t sure if it was torture or not, and as a good journalist he wanted to find out.
Hitchens argued it was torture at a time when Sean Hannity said it wasn’t.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/8eubg/sean_hannity_offers_himself_to_be_waterboarded/
[“You hear about it and you hear people say it’s bad and you think, those people probably have a vagina. But I don’t have a vagina! As God as my witness that was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced in my entire li- Wait a minute! I’ve actually drowned before. Literally drowned. I was clinically dead from drowning…”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Pwz2CEpZM)
RIP Hitch. He wasn’t alway right, but when he was wrong he was more than willing to own up. Seems a rare trait these days.
Reminds me of an old favorite joke:
“Waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay sounds delightful if you have no idea what either of those things are.”
Just a reminder that Sean Hannity still claims that water boarding isn’t torture and refuses to live up to his pledge to be waterboarded to prove it isn’t.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4825812/user-clip-hannity-weasels-waterboarding-pledge
The title is misleading. He never believed it wasn’t torture. He did it to understand just how bad of a torture it was.
Didn’t some Fox News Pundit do the same thing, but chickened out of actually demonstrating it?
Controversial opinion -> Tests it out himself -> Changes said opinion. That’s respect in my book.
And yet Sean Hannity still has not gone through with his waterboard got charity promise