Waterboarding Quotes

“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you’ll gladly die just to have relief.”
― Kenneth G. Eade, A Patriot's Act

“Torture works Here’s why. If you grab a man by his balls…soon his heart and mind will always follow.”
― James Morris Robinson, Genesis: A New World Order

“One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.”
― Lisa Daily, Single-Minded

“No no, please please

Please stop it
Is this ‘cause my last name bears the name of the prophet?

I don’t know no Akbar
I don’t know no Ahmad
So why the hell are you tying my hands and tilting my head back?

Me no sign up for this
Cloth warm, over my face

You cut to the chase
Cruciform, torturous ways

I’m biting my lips
Spine chills, trying to be brave

So this is the place
Sign my will, death is my fate”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford

Covert dawn's surreptitious light,
A magpie sentry's warning song,
Swooping, scanning silent streets,
Cackling danger all night long.

Metallic cross of crucified clothes,
A choir of colours in the breeze,
Waterboarded by lashing rain,
Made them suffer incrementally.

One knock for no, two knocks for yes,
One and a half for uncertainty,
Three knocks for drinks and company,
The rite of suburban courtesy.

37 years ago, down at number 37,
Came the first and last royal visit,
Dizzying anticipation from first light,
Fading fairytale in a curtsying gibbet.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Nothing, not an IRS audit, not even waterboarding, is worse than having country music forced on you.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun