Jesse Ventura making too much sense

[Superman]

From the Larry King show that aired on April 1.

No, I don't. No, I don't. I dis -- I like John McCain as a person. I respect him for his military service. But I don't like his positions at all, when he starts telling me that we could be in Iraq for 100 years. Larry, I can't hold my country on a pedestal anymore.

You know why? Because we lined our military up at another sovereign nation's border, we invaded that country and overthrew that government without being asked. That's what the Nazis did. That's what the communists did. And now we've done it.

And I say this personally because I'm Slovak descent. I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries -- Slovakia and the Czech Republic -- put them together as one. And I remember sitting one time at a party and someone asked me my nationality. I said, "Well, I'm Czech."

And my 85-year-old aunt spun around in the chair and her finger went up. She said, "You're not Czech, you're Slovak."

And now we've done what those countries have done. We've invaded a country that did not do one thing to us. There isn't one shred of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. I mean, it's like if you go back to World War II and Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor, so maybe we should have attacked Thailand.

After all, they're Asian too, aren't they?

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I wish they would allow "none of the above" on the ballot.

Yes, because in most of your elections across America today, if you gave the Democrat, the Republican or "none of the above," I believe "none of the above" would prevail in most elections. And that would force these two -- because that would be a no confidence vote.

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See, our problem with this current war in Iraq is that we're being governed by the chicken hawks. You know what a chicken hawk is? That's somebody when it was their time to serve they were chicken. But now they come back when they're 50-years-old and they're hawks.

You know, why -- where was -- and I laugh when President Bush says -- he come out a few months ago and said the problem with Vietnam was we left too soon. Well, why didn't he come over and help out? Or why didn't five -- or four or five deferment Dick Cheney show up?

And how is it that a guy with four or five deferments from the military can end up the secretary of defense? Shouldn't you have at least served -- you're the main liaison between civilian and military, shouldn't you have at least had military service? And yet here's Dick Cheney, a secretary of defense.

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I think Al Gore is terrific. I think that he found -- he's one of the few politicians who, I believe, almost went to greater heights after getting out of office. To win the Nobel Prize is remarkable. I really love the fact that he's focused so much on the environment and the global warming. And that's a very honorable thing.

Even if you don't believe in global warming, isn't it still better to have a mission's be less (ph)? Isn't it still better to use less fuel? You don't even have to buy global warming to realize what everyone is saying about it would still be the best thing for us to do as a society.

While I don't agree with a lot of what Ventura has said, he does seem to be pretty reasonable with most of his positions.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

First of all, he's an idiot. Woodrow Wilson created Czechoslovakia out of the bones of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so his example is simply.. Not true. Second of all, he is correct in the gist, but, damnit, he shouldn't be comparing us to the soviets over handing Slovakia to the Czechs--we did that ourselves, too!

[PeZook]

First of all, he's an idiot. Woodrow Wilson created Czechoslovakia out of the bones of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so his example is simply.. Not true. Second of all, he is correct in the gist, but, damnit, he shouldn't be comparing us to the soviets over handing Slovakia to the Czechs--we did that ourselves, too!

Plus, it's a lot more complicated than "The Soviets invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia". While communist governments of post-war Soviet Bloc republics weren't exactly run by the Care Bears, they did re-build most of the infrastructure. Soviet-imposed national governments electrified the railways and built dozens of universities in most major cities, for example.

[Mange]

Jesse Ventura is a twoofer (he recently repeated the same standard twooferism on WTC 7 on the Alex Jones show).

[Jade Falcon]

First of all, he's an idiot. Woodrow Wilson created Czechoslovakia out of the bones of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so his example is simply.. Not true. Second of all, he is correct in the gist, but, damnit, he shouldn't be comparing us to the soviets over handing Slovakia to the Czechs--we did that ourselves, too!

You'd have thought that if Jesse Ventura was going to mention anything connecting Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union he would have mentioned the 1968 invasion...