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Jesse Ventura schools The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck on torture

“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.”

“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.”

HP

It’s upsetting that the only person willing to say these things is Jesse Ventura, a person, who I don’t believe is taken very seriously by many people. But, as he says, his training at the SERE schools as a SEAL gives him more authority than Dick Cheney will ever have to know whether waterboarding is torture or not.