Is it torture? Yes.

This is Surreal. Christopher Hitchens, a pro-Iraq war pundit, gets waterboarded... to the tune of some smooth synth-pop music that sounds like Enigma. I don't generally find two things in the Alternet newsletter that I want to address on a single day, but this is 1) not what I pictured, 2) completely riveting, and 3) just so wrong. Especially when you hear Hitchens describe the lingering psychological after-effects. After just a few seconds of "enhanced interrogation."