Just ran across this entry on Pharyngula:
http://scienceblogs.com/...
Christopher Hitchens volunteered:
"to determine whether it really was torture, he had himself waterboarded by the US military"
The result:
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'll attempt to post the YouTube here, but you can also see it by following the link to Pharyngula or searching YouTube yourself.