the citizen-viewer

“You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment,” writes Christopher Hitchens about “waterboarding” in Vanity Fair this month, “which is that it “simulates” the feeling of drowning. This is not the case….I find I don’t want to tell you how little time I lasted.”

We want to, and we did. Time it yourself:

The effects of Hitchens’s microscopically brief sojourn to the nightmare world that the US administration has created (with his general approval): “I have since woken up trying to push the bedcovers off my face, and if I do anything that makes me short of breath I find myself clawing at the air with a horrible sensation of smothering and claustrophobia.”

Read his account, and ask the Bush administration: “If it isn’t torture, then why are we doing it?”
Here’s how.