Ventura: Powell’s a ‘war hero,’ while Cheney ‘ran and hid’

Ventura: Powell’s a ‘war hero,’ while Cheney ‘ran and hid’:

"Raw Story
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura laid into Dick Cheney on CNN Monday night for, among other things, supporting waterboarding and maligning a “war hero” during an interview on Sunday.

“I was water boarded, so I know — at SERE School, Survival Escape Resistance Evasion,” the former wrestler who gained his first mainstream fame playing a role in the sci-fi actioner Predator told CNN’s Larry King. “It was a required school you had to go to prior to going into the combat zone, which in my era was Vietnam. All of us had to go there. We were all, in essence — every one of us was water boarded. It is torture.”

King asked, “What was it like?”

“It’s drowning,” Ventura responded. “It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you — I’ll put it to you this way, you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."