Waterboarding is torture, no matter what they tell you.

For the August 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, writer Chris Hitchens bravely subjected himself to a waterboarding session. His article on the waterboarding experience is available here, as well as a video of the torture session. It hopefully won’t surprise anyone (except Bush and friends) that Hitchens decisively concluded that waterboarding is indeed torture, no matter what they tell us.