(Interrogator straps Neocon to table, places cloth or cellophane over his face and begins to pour water over his head.)
Interrogator: “Admit that waterboarding is torture!”
Neocon: (moans, body squirms, head violently shakes in rebellious defiance.)
Interrogator: “Admit it! Waterboarding is torture! You can stop this now. Just admit it!”
(Hours pass and the neocon is exhausted, choking, almost dead from lack of oxygen. He finally makes a passive gesture of the head and fingers. He groans a barely audible “yes.” The cloak is removed.)
Neocon: “Yes, it is torture. I admit it. Please let me go.”
(The neocon is released. Later, he renounces his confession under duress.)
Neocon: “They were killing me. What the hell else was I gonna say? I was in pain. I had to do whatever I had to do to stop it.”
(On his way to work that day, the neocon–who so vocally supports the Iraq War–drives by an Army recruiting office. He declines to enlist.)
-EG
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