Jesse Ventura 'schools' The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck on waterboarding / torture

From Rawstory.com:

"Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why dont cops do it?

By David Edwards and Stephen Webster

Published: May 18, 2009

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on ABCs The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding.

Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an enhanced interrogation technique.

If waterboarding is okay, why dont we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know? he asked to a chorus of applause.

Thats an interesting question, Hasselbeck said. I understand that question.

If waterboarding is okay, why didnt we waterboard [Timothy] McVeigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? Whats your answer to that? he asked. We only seem to waterboard Muslims.

Thats an extremist statement, said Hasselbeck.

Aha! cheered Ventura. Have we waterboarded anybody else? Name me someone else weve waterboarded.

She could not, instead shifting focus to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who has been criticized by Republicans for a seeming contradiction in disclosing what she knew about then-President Bushs torture program, and when.

They want her out because she lied? asked Ventura. Why didnt they ask for Bush and Cheney to go out when they lied about why we went into Iraq.

This video is from MSNBCs News Live, broadcast May 18, 2009."

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/18/ventura-schools-hasselbeck/


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[TheWanderingAngel]

I'm sorry, but being a Englishman, I've never seen this show. Does that blonde lass ever speak a word of sense because every video I've seen her in, she talks utter crap.

[Ravenshadow666x]

Aww how cute....the blonde is talking.....

[guyNbluejeans]

"Heaven is within (hell is without, which you're witnessing here)."

[darinbar]

Do some homework about your guests Elisabeth, you sound like a f-ckin bimbo.

[djj343]

@mjprince7 Wise AND experienced. Hard to beat that combo.

[platoboy]

@TheWanderingAngel wandering, she is a complete and utter fool who has done NOTHING to get onto this show. My first question was "where did this fool come from?" what is her claim to fame? Nothing she's just this little dumb blond soundboard for the right wing. I don't think she would know the truth if it slapped her in the face!

[civilengineeringtech]

@mjprince7 Except evolution...

[mjprince7]

Ventura is a very wise man, he knows what he's talking about.

[Trillidotia]

I'm proud to say I voted for Ventura when he ran for Gov. of MN (and was elected). He is one smart, decent man. We need more like him; he's honest and refuses to play the stupid political games of others - but this did not make him at all popular with the rank and file.

[pollito2525]

Jesse Ventura for Vice President 2012!!

[Guitarvirtuoso666]

My granddaddy fought for Nazi Germany against the Russians in WW II, when the army routed, he ran for days and days to the West, so that the American troops would capture him, because he knew he would be treated humanely. If the war was going on today however, I think he would rather flee to the Russians and get himself killed