Little Rudy on torture: “It depends on who does it”

Giuliani was asked if waterboarding is torture:

“Well, I’m not sure…. It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it. I think the way it’s been defined in the media, it shouldn’t be done. The way in which they have described it, particularly in the liberal media. So I would say, if that’s the description of it, then I can agree, that it shouldn’t be done. But I have to see what the real description of it is.”

…“So I’d have to see what they really are doing, not the way some of these liberal newspapers have exaggerated it.”

…“When the Democrats are talking about torture, they’re not just talking about even this definition of waterboarding, which again, if you look at the liberal media and you look at the way they describe it, you could say it was torture and you shouldn’t do it. …”

The liberal media are obviously lying, and if the Bush regime is doing it, it can’t really be torture. Besides, it “depends on how it’s done.” And of course, “It depends on who does it.”

(Jimmy Breslin's description of Giuliani: "A small man in search of a balcony.")