Christopher Hitchens, a contributing writer for Vanity Fair actually allowed Special Forces to escort the hooded author to the scene of his real live waterboarding experience.
His account goes exactly like this:
- They place him on a slanted board.
- Lay him out, face up on the board.
- Strap him down.
- Three layers of towel are placed over his face.
- The "captors" pour water through the towel into the author's face.
- The author signals for the waterboarding to stop.
- The hood is removed.
- The author gasps for air.
- An E.M.S. paramedic checks his pulse.
Hitchen's commentary: Waterboarding is for Green Berets in training. It's not for wheezing, pauchy scribblers.
2 comments:
So, instead of waterboarding, should the methods be to, tie the enemies hands behind their back, force them to make a plea in to a video camera, and then cut their head and fingers off? And after that they throw the body in the ditch to rot. All this while they record it and post it unedited onthe internet.
Maybe that should be done instead of waterboarding, I mean why keep them alive so they, at the least, have the possibility of seeing their family again.
Thanks for the comment anonymous, but I am not quite sure how this relates to Chris Hitchen's account of waterboarding, which, from his first hand experience paints a terrifying picture. In real life, I suspect all the things you mentioned may occur along with waterboarding. I'm just saying...
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