Delving down the memory hole we find this article from Christopher about how he stood up to a simulated waterboarding ( he had privately arranged for himself)
" I had read that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had impressed his interrogators by holding out for upwards of two minutes before cracking. (By the way, this story is not confirmed. My North Carolina friends jeered at it. “Hell,” said one, “from what I heard they only washed his damn face before he babbled.”) But, hell, I thought in my turn, no Hitchens is going to do worse than that. Well, O.K., I admit I didn’t outdo him....then I said, with slightly more bravado than was justified, that I’d like to try it one more time."
Whoa, that Hitch, much tougher than some two bit terrorist.
Yet it turns out that the aforementioned Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was not waterboarded once before he broke like a little girl. He was in fact waterboarded 183 times in a month, 5 times a day on average.
What does this illustrate? I would contend that our argement is not always that Hitchens is lying to us. On the contrary often he is merely naively repeating the lies he has been told by others.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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