Ethics

Jesse Ventura on Waterboarding

By Ed Brayton

I've never been much of a Jesse Ventura fan. I generally appreciate anyone, like Ventura and Ross Perot, who help put a crack in the two party system, even if they're a little nuts (and both of them are). But I like this a lot, Ventura on Larry King Live saying that waterboarding is clearly torture and that anyone involved in it should be prosecuted. He also blisters Dick Cheney.

Jesse Ventura: I would prosecute every person who was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it, I would prosecute the people that ordered it, because torture is against the law."

Larry King: You were a Navy S.E.A.L.

Jesse Ventura: Yes, and I was waterboarded [in training] so I know... It is torture...I'll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 16, 2009 (boomark / email).