Scarborough attacks Jesse Ventura over waterboarding remarks: "It seriously should be a crime to be that dumb"

That's your biased partisan interpretation at play. Not valid.

Ventura was correct: Muslims were waterboarded by the US. If you have facts that say differently then put them on the table.

What do you think was the criteria by which Iraq was selected?

Only one of the following is true:

CaptainAmerica: [people waterboarded by the US] were chosen for "enhanced interrogation" because they were found in an active combat zone sitting in a locked room with dudes building IED's and planning attacks on US Troops

Joe Scarborough: We only waterboarded people who planned the attacks on September 11

Jesse Ventura: We only waterboard Muslims.

"We didn't just go out and say: "here muslims, we have a treat for you"... They were chosen for "enhanced interrogation" because they were found in an active combat zone sitting in a locked room with dudes building IED's and planning attacks on US Troops."

So were there any Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, etc. in that waterboarded bunch or not???

If you're gonna challenge Ventura's statement then bring facts to the table that refute the statement. Otherwise, there's the door.

You lefties crack me up.

Judging from your posts, you were cracked long before you started here.

No one knows for certain who was "water boarded". The reports thus far include only Muslims.

Mr. Ventura was waterboarded repeatedly, as part of his training going into Vietnam, because that was what the Vietnamese did to POWs. He fully understands the effects of waterboarding, since the US government made sure of it in the event of his capture.

Waterboarding was torture du jour at the Hanoi Hilton.

That is why John McCain and all other POWs of the Vietnam war are against it too.

It HAS come to light that waterboarding was only used to illicit false links between Iraq and al Qaeda.

buffoon! Question: Is it OK to waterboard a buffoon?
Answer: No, even a buffoon is a person, and persons should not be tortured...oops, I'm sorry, interrogated enhancingly.

Oops. Should have said "overwhelmingly" in this. That is the problem with typing faster than the brain is functioning. Sorry. =(

If not that, the President sure did mobilize the military despite the choice and the voice of elected officials but you didn't see a news stoty there. Maybe your courage is revived to address it since Bush isn't in office. You stand for the correct protocol now? You are the one to correct me on the misunderstanding of the words "War on Terror". You would have done well to tell the Bush Administration that we did not have a war on terror.

My statememnt, put it in the hands of the hypocrites!

But you have to be clear. Were we in an unofficial war or not? War is war. Do we consider Iraq to be a terrorist enterprise? Invading Iraq was more than a crime, it was acts of totalitarianism. It was the realization that the office of the President was used to commit piracy. I don't have vocalization to bring the light to this subject but if the Republicans announce that they are tired of apologizing again, they will be explaining how they are tired of contemptuously going against the laws mandated by the Geneva Convention, how funding was awarded to afford the deployment of military manpower, and admit that they don't have control in times of Rep leadership. Bush Administration was Rep. The Rep could not control/did not have a rapport with the party leader and Commander in Cheif, their wishes and goals were not considered and a few men were able to impliment their personal agenda (for profit) in the face of hate and racism. When O'Bama is addressing undoing what was done, it is because the actions were lawless. The Reps did not conceive that the global community had the privelege to watch these acts of "invasion" and probably felt that America was a danger to even them. Do we think that Americans are the only literal and well informed nation? Does China not have a television? Is the Iran-Contra and the Nicaraguan thing forgotten already? Hell No! We just move forward with selective amnesia and underestimate the things that people will recall and take into account.

I don't mean any personal attacks to you and I do extend my apology. The nerve of me to address issues in that manner. i owe you an educated and tempered response at all times and I hope that you will forgive that because i will remove that behavior as a practice.

I don't fault you. I applaud your vocalization actually and remember, i have no idea who you are. We need to find a way to move collectively when things like this happen. It will take some nerve and strategy. Strategy!!! It can be addressed though. It was up to engage in politics at that point. Sometimes I feel that people consider politics this rant and rave and smart aleck blogging thing. The definition of politics will provide clarity and the system in which policies are changes will reflect goal accomplishment and mobility. So, in the future I will be more studious because I am nobody and I owe journalism much more than that.

I'm not even a journalist! Doesn't it seem that they all are politicians or family oriented in the craft? That might have a hell of a lot to do with the same rhetoric all the time. We should think outside the box and thank you for your awareness of our continued disregard for the law!!!!!!