Jesse Ventura on Torture

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I’m liking Jesse Ventura more and more.

Last week:

give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders

This week:

“If waterboarding is OK, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so they can learn what they know?” he asked. “If waterboarding is OK, why didn’t we waterboard [Timothy] McVeigh and Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? … We only seem to waterboard Muslims… Have we waterboarded anyone else? Name me someone else who has been waterboarded.”

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