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Seems there’s no end of people chiming in on whether waterboarding is torture or not. In an interview with Larry King of Larry King Live on CNN, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura takes Dick Cheney to task for insisting waterboarding is not torture.

In the clip below, Mr. Ventura contends that waterboarding is drowning. As a one-time Navy SEAL, he says he and all of his SEAL colleagues went through Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training before going on to combat in the Vietnam War. Part of that training is torture resistance and survival for waterboarding.

Watch it:

“Let’s put it this way, you give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney, and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”

• He believes George Bush was the worst president in our lifetime.
• He thinks Obama is very intelligent, which is a change from our previous President.
• Mr. Ventura is very bothered by Guantanamo and says he would prosecute everyone involved in torture. He said it was something he does take issue with President Obama on, in that those prosecutions haven’t taken place yet.
• Mr. Ventura emphatically claimed that torture is against the law.
• He doesn’t have a lot of respect for Dick Cheney, saying he had five deferments during the Vietnam War:

“Clearly he is a coward, he wouldn’t go when it was his time to go, and now he’s a chickenhawk. He’s this big tough guy who wants this hardcore policy, and he’s the one that sanctioned all of this torture, calling it “enhanced interrogation techniques.”