Watch Christopher Hitchens get Waterboarded

[Michael Bailey]

they cover your face with a towel...I didn't know that.  You would
have to be some kind of a badass to endure very much of that.  Wonder
if they really got anything that way.
Knowing it was only going to be 15 seconds, but still you would be (at
least at first) heart-racing and breathing fast - if not then you
could just hold your breath and wait for the 15 seconds off...even if
you're breathing fast you would know you''re f*cked if you breathe in

so there I am, a badass terrorist, holding my breath
the interrogators probably would not be too rigorous with the 15
second rule, though

logically you know, as you are lying there, that if you breathe in the
water your lungs will reject it violently, so you could just hold your
breath - (note to self: if taking up terrorism, in case of capture,
practice holding breath till you pass out) - till you pass out.  Then
reflexes would kick in, you'd breathe in the water, start to cough,
which would probably wake you up - drat!

but at least you wouldn't have that terrible moment where you start to
breathe in water knowingly.  I couldn't take that.

so the  water hits your lungs and messes up the osmosis and
gas-exchange chemistry going on there, ruins the ph balance, and the
coughing is gonna make your airways really inflamed.  If they give you
some time off, wonderful mucus will cover those red raw passages  --
you're a badass terrorist so you look forward to that.  at least
something to look forward to...

the thing that gets me, is the longer they have you in detention, the
less you are going to know about the workings of your cohorts anyway.
your knowledge will depreciate faster than a just-purchased new car.








On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> That Mancow idiot lasted only 6 seconds, and he was attempting to
> prove that it isn't torture.  There is something about being inverted
> with water going down into your nostrils that provokes terror (that's
> what Mancow said).  I think it must be a very primal fear being
> evoked.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seemed really brief. How could it act that fast? I'm not tempted to try it in order to find out.
>



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