Elisabeth Hasselbeck: I know your mind is pretty made up about waterboarding, correct? You were waterboarded as part of your Navy Seal training, correct?
Jesse Ventura: Well, it wasn’t part of the Navy seal training, it was part of what they call SERE school: Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion. It’s a school they required you to go to prior to the combat zone of Vietnam. And yes, we were all water boardedthere, and yes it is torture.
What do you think about Nancy Pelosi in terms of what she has been claiming about the CIA lying to the Congress?
Jesse Ventura: I think what’s worst is this: the fact that it happened. If we hadn’t waterboarded to begin with, none of this would be a controversy, would it? Torture is torture. If you’re going to be a country that follows the rule of law, which we are, torture is illegal.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: But these were specifically approved techniques with KSM, okay?
Jesse Ventura: Approved by whom?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, the information we extracted from him before water boarding was zip. Afterward waterboarding he released the information.
Jesse Ventura: No, he released all the information before waterboarding.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: This was a case that was used three times.
Jesse Ventura: The point is this. Alright, wait a minute. If waterboarding is ok, then why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so they can learn what they know?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: That’s an interesting question. I have a similar question.
Jesse Ventura: If waterboarding is okay, why didn’t we water board McVeigh and Nicholas, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Well, what is your answer to that? Why didn’t we?
Jesse Ventura: Well, I don’t know. We only seem to waterboard Muslims. Have we waterboarded anyone else? Name me someone else we have waterboarded.
Lady Participant: Well, one of the things that’s coming out now is that they were waterboarding them to get a connection between Iraq and Al Qaida. And that the reason they waterboarded them was to get information so they could justify their invasion of Iraq. How does that work into your theory on how great it is?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: I’m not saying it’s great, okay? I’m not saying, “Hey everybody, let’s go next door and get waterboarded”. I’m concerned right now about Nancy Pelosi who was supposedly briefed.
Other Members: She is lying. She lies.
Jesse Ventura: They want her out now, right? Because she lied. Well, why didn’t they ask for Bush and Cheney to go out when they lied about why we went into Iraq?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Senator Hillary Clinton was right there with them, as were many Democrats.
Jesse Ventura: The point is, nothing’s going to happen because they’re all involved? The Democrats and Republicans are both involved, that’s why President Obama is backing off from it. And we’re not going to do it now. It’s a good thing I’m not the President, I’m an independent. Because I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it, and they would all go to jail.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Would you prosecute President Obama in the future going backwards when he ordered the killing of the Somali pirates? I mean, you have to think about everything that’s…
Jesse Ventura: There is a difference. That’s apples and oranges. You’re not talking about someone in custody who is supposedly under… okay how would we feel, look how outraged we were when waterboarding was done to our vets in Vietnam. Where do you think we learned it from? And we created the Hanoi Hilton right in Guantanamo. That’s our Hanoi Hilton. People have died there, people are tortured there. I’m ashamed of my country.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Extremist are not basing their behaviors on ours. I can guarantee that they’re out to get us no matter what.
Jesse Ventura: Should we stoop to their level? No. We should be above that.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Absolutely.
Jesse Ventura: Torture is wrong.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Torture is wrong but enhanced interrogation techniques are different.
Jesse Ventura: Enhanced interrogation techniques is Dick Chaney changing the word. Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass. Hey, I have said it before, you give me a waterboard, 1 hour and Dick Chaney and I’ll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murders.
Trying to get a message to Jesse..I bought your book about conspiracies..and as I got to the back of the book..there was a piece of square paper stuck to a page ..in read of book..as I removed it..i realized it was a computer chip inside the paper.
I have kept it ..if you want it to check it out contact me Jesse. It really pissed me off! Who is data basing the buyers of your book? Or tracing who is buying your books?????
this is a masonic poem
in every race and every climb scince the earliest days of timeman have taughy the mystic quest shown th way to peace and rest bacchus died and rose again on the golden plain osiris rose from out the grave adonis likewise shed hi blood by the syrian flood zoroaster brought to birth mithra freom his cave of earth
if you research the names you will understand who knows and who dont
osiris translates to anubis ,nubis ,plant x,or judgement mithrra ,the truth is safe in hi cave. dont believe me look it up
Jesse, my friends dad was a Green Beret who did two tours in Vietnam, Unlike alot of veterans he speaks often of his missions in Vietnam wich included NVA prisoner snatches. His stories are shocking to say the least. He recently gave me a book to read called SOG – The Secret Wars Of Americas Commandos In Vietnam, some very shocking material in this book that will open the readers eye’s nice and wide. Well worth the read. BTW – my friends dad’s picture is in this book five different times.
Jesse, I am the founder of an organization called World Peace For All. I have been following you for some time and feel that it would be beneficial for us to speak. If you are serious about making changes in the world then get in touch with me. You could be a great help to what I am doing but this is not the time or place to discuss it. I look forward to hearing from you and am grateful for your efforts to identify the problems that we face as a nation and as a world. Be well my friend!
Edward
Iv been looking for how to send Jesse a letter or e-mail. i only hope he sees this or some one who works for him sees this.
im a huge george washington fan. we offerd the man a crown and he said no. I love to read his fairwell address. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address.
i feel only my Ventura has the salt of what was writen in mr washingtons views.
please run for presadent Jesse. im beggng. give us back the constitution,bill or rights and pride.
i live in kentucky. home of the corrupt right. the poor here have no more and cant even afford to run.
please help us get back to center. not left or right just people. like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address.
please help please run
Jesse, I have MANY wrestling pictures of you and “Adrian Adonis”; I would send them to you if you are interested! Please email….
Mr. Ventura,
Can you ask all the skeptics of 9/11 how come the Trade Center Towers fell from 747s but the Empire State Building did NOT collapse back in 1945 when hit by a B-25 bomber? Did they just build them better back then?
Thanks in advance,
Cliff Degner
P.S. WWE is not the same without you and Vince at the Announce Table.
Hey Jesse,
This is not about waterboarding, it is about conspiracy theory. Why isn’t it on trutv anymore? was it cancelled? was it planned that way or was it abruptly pulled by the powers that be? if it was abruptly pulled who did it and what was the reason? Was it someone you exposed?
Jesse, I believe that I was a part of the MK-ULTRA-Cia program. We need to talk.
Hey Jesse,
This is not about waterboarding, it is about conspiracy theory. Why isn’t it on trutv anymore? was it cancelled? was it planned that way or was it abruptly pulled by the powers that be? if it was abruptly pulled who did it and what was the reason? Was it someone you exposed?
Jesse, you are a blowhard. You keep using that line, “Give me a waterboard, and an hour with Dick Cheney, I’ll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murder.”
Jesse, of course you can make people give false confessions, but that wasn’t the point of waterboarding KSM. It was to get info. And we got useful info. We probably got a lot of red herrings as well, but since our purpose was not to be sadistic to KSM, but to extract actionable intelligence, everything KSM said was put under a microscope. Even deliberately wrong intel is valuble. To put it simple terms, if the bad guy tells you to look south, and he has a “tell” that indicates he may be lying, look north.
I really wish you would go away, Jesse. I used to respect you, but now I think you are a waste of space.
Maybe someone in a position to do something about 9/11 knew in advance, and maybe not, but there was no grand conspiracy requiring hundreds (or thousands) of people who all need to be silenced once the deed is done. No one in our government spent billions of dollars on explosives, delays, micro delays, detonation cord, and the personel who knew how to work it.
Building seven fell because it was damaged, and was allowed to burn, because it was too dangerous to keep fighting it. Anyone with an engineering degree, and an ounce of sense would know that the building was in danger of catastrophic collapse, which is why they pulled the firefighters out in the first place.
From the only angle truthers ever show, it looks like it came down at free fall speed. But from the other side, the collapse started long before it was visible from the truther shot. By the time the building fell, it was well on it’s way to being a hollywood facade. A wall with nothing behind it.
Go away Jesse. You embarress humanity.
Sincerely,
Neill Arnhart