Christopher Hitchens has been a supporter of the Bush "War on Terror" from the beginning so it's pretty significant that he undergoes waterboarding himself and declares in no uncertain terms that it is torture:
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
I've always said that if our fearless leaders (Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld) felt that waterboarding was not torture that they should lead by example and undergo it themselves. So much for our moral leadership in the world...
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