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Torturing Hitch

Written by dave on Wednesday, July 2nd 2008 under National Politics

After submitting to waterboarding Christopher Hitchens changes his tune. Once he argued that waterboarding is “extreme interrogation” distinguishable from torture. After the experience?

“Believe me, it’s torture.”

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