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October 26, 2007

Waterboarding the Jews -- No Problem for Rudy?

T
he other day, when asked about waterboarding, GOP presidential front runner Rudy Guiliani would not say it was torture and, in fact, said that whether waterboarding was even wrong depended on who did it -- according to the fair and balanced Fox News.

During the trials of the Spanish Inquisition, waterboarding -- or toca -- was one of three key methods of wringing the truth from the defendants. Typically, those defendants were those suspected of Judaism and Protestantism.

So, my question to Rudy -- and the GOP -- is this: Was it okay to waterboard the Jews to secure their confession during the Inquisition? With confession in hand, of course, the Inquisition -- approved by the Pope (does that make it okay?) -- would pronounce sentence . . . such as burning at the stake, for example.

Want to know the kind of people who ran the Inquisition? Oh, Rudy . . .

Posted by shertaugh at October 26, 2007 4:49 PM