Some key quotes: “This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed”
“The fear is coming from 9/11, the fear is coming from that attack and our government making us paranoid to make us think that some Muslim radical hiding behind every tree waiting to blow us up.”
“Why was no one fired [for 9/11]… Shouldn’t many be important people in this country be going to jail?”
Update — The Full Videos of the Jesse Ventura Interview with Al-Jazeera are available below:
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Sounds like Jesse took a few too many hits during his wrestling days.
He sounds like a raving lunatic. Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he no longer has the right to speak out against the current Government.
Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he has no choice but to wash his feet and pray to Allah five times a day or be put to death.
Didnt that dude like used to be a pro wrestler or something? Should have stuck with it!
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[...] Jesse Ventura: “This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t… [...]
Um, Clinton wasn’t impeached for cheating on his wife. It was for lying under oath. People seem to forget that, but I’m surprised a Governor could.
Well, I think Jesse’s point was that Congress pursued a 3 year investigation of Bill Clinton for discrepancies in testimony about a BJ, but was somehow unable to investigate George Bush for manufacturing intelligence and misleading Congress into war.
I think Jesse is one of the wisest persons in government. This guy cares about his
country and it’s citizens.
Jessie rocks it like a typhoon!
He mostly hits the nail squarely.
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at Dave:
yes clinton got impeached because he lied under oath. . . about cheating on his wife
no bush did NOT get impeached for going to war. . . about lying on WMD
People that still live in the U.S. need to wake up to what the government did to you. But, most of you will lay back and accept what they say like sheep.
Dave, in regards to your comment “Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he no longer has the right to speak out against the current Government.”, I think that danger is much less likely now that the Bush/Cheney administration is over.
George W. Bush’s grandfather was part of a plot to overthrow America’s democratic form of government and replace it with a fascist one (see http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html ). After his grandson, George W. Bush , had been office for a few years, I felt like the quote “that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling The Star Spangled Banner” was eerily prescient.
And as for “Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he has no choice but to wash his feet and pray to Allah five times a day or be put to death.”, I certainly wouldn’t want to live in such a society, but nor would I wish to live in a Christian theocracy. I found the previous administrations’ efforts to weaken the boundaries between church and state that America’s founding fathers realized were vital for a free society, troubling. And its use of a “faith-based agenda” to reward political cronies a misuse of the state’s power to favor religious groups that supported the administration politically (see http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0626-08.htm ).
I’ve also been troubled by so many Americans’ willingness to trade freedoms hard-won by those who came before us for a promise of security. As Benjamin Franklin said at our nation’s inception, “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” and, in the end, they won’t have either.
And as for the Clinton and Monica Lewisnky affair, it was really about sex. The Republican party tried many other tactics to weaken the Clinton administration. The only one that gained traction was the one involving sex; something to titillate the public and hold its interest. He lied about his sex life. I suppose tabloid journalism’s coverage of the sex lives of celebrity’s has led many American’s to believe they are entitled to such information and the notion of discretion in such matters now seems old-fashioned.
On the other hand, Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction to take us into a war that has cost thousands of American lives and perhaps a half million or more Iraqi lives.
I thought Bush’s decisiveness in dealing with the Taliban who offered refuge to Al Quida laudable and I initially supported his toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime, but I became disillusioned when I learned how his administration had manipulated the American public to take us into war, was spying on us (feeling that it shouldn’t be subject to any judicial review, even if it was a rubber-stamp FISA court), and was tortuing prisoners, which it euphemistically termed “harsh interrogation” or “enhanced interrogation.”
I remember how outraged I was decades ago when I read Jeremiah Session’s “When Hell Was In Session” ( see http://www.amazon.com/When-Hell-Session-Jeremiah-Denton/dp/0966059727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243013655&sr=8-1 ) about how he was tortured by the Vietnamese. He was an American soldier captured and tortured by the Vietnamese, who later became an American senator (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton ). He was a Republican senator; it sickens me to now hear Republican political leaders endorsing the use of torture, with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) going so far as to say “I mean, one of the reasons these techniques have survived for about 500 years is apparently they work.”
Yes, they do work. Under torture people will eventually say whatever the torturer wants. That’s why so many confessed to having sex with the Devil during the Inquisition, even though they knew they would be burned alive once they said it. The fact that they all said essentially the same thing was proof for the inquisitors, but it was because most eventually figured out what the inquisitors wanted to hear or they died.
Clinton was neither impeached for cheating on his wife nor lying under oath. He was impeached for being a democrat. Anyone who wants to disagree should do so while under oath and connected to a polygraph.
[...] Jesse Ventura : “This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed. Something is wrong with that” [...]
He forgot to mention genocide in his list of crimes against humanity.
ps. Did anyone see the clip of at the washington press club where was making jokes about the WMD. That is just wrong…
@JAmes MAson: Didn’t you used to be a janitor? Should have stuck with it, your web site and business is ass. Happy failing.
If you people don’t realize that what Jesse Ventura is saying is the truth, god help us all.
Dear Mr. Janos… President Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and other legalities involving Congress. Cheating on your wife isn’t a crime any more than pretending to be wrestling. And President Bush did not, nor can President Obama can’t “take” the country to war without Congress providing at least tacit approval, funding and political cover.
It helps if you know what the hell you’re talking about. Go get a college degree or something, would ya? Then pontificate. Not that it matters.
Ok…So who here thinks that President Bush never lied under oath? (by a show of hands)
It was an inside job! I mean… dey dook der jobs!!
Steve wrote:
“I think Jesse is one of the wisest persons in government. This guy cares about his country and it’s citizens.”
Atta boy, Steve.
s/o
Specifically Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, so hash it however you want, he was impeached because of a technicality on something just about ANY guy would have done. It was nothing more then a witch hunt. What Clinton did in no way affected the safety and security of the country and was not worthy of wasting time and money on an impeachment hearing.
What Bush Jr. did was more than impeachment worthy, but sadly there is a different set of standards used to measure Republicans and democrats in this country.
Jesse is the man.. it hurts to hear the truth that this man speaks
“Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he has no choice but to wash his feet and pray to Allah five times a day or be put to death.” What the hell are you talking about? This man is a patriot.
Im sorry. Are we talking about Obama or Bush here?
Jesse speak the truth.
Maybe you should consider impeaching Obama for taking you toward more government control of your health and life. No one smelled anything fishy when Bush threatened the public to go along with the bailout, that word was THREATENED. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for how he is using the Census to create districts that do not exist so some of his Klan can make BIG bucks, kind of like the latest bankers money well. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for how he is using the Census to knock people off the federal employment elgibility lists, mainly “whites”. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for a corrupt election, and your government tells you that corruption is so bad in Afghanistan? Clean up the corruption in America first, before America feels compelled to clean up other countries and sacrifice more lives in the name of war. McCain said it best when he told Bush the people are starting to catch on.
We need to speak out instead of being a bunch of sheeple blindly following whatever idiot that was put into power. If you think we are living in a democracy then you are a sheeple. The electoral college elects the president and not the people.