Jesse Ventura on War & Peace

Former Independent MN Governor

We attacked Saddam for the same WMDs we have in our arsenal

US Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Warfare: The transcript of this House Subcommittee in terms of the R&D going on at the same time and how "innocently" we were using herbicides in Vietnam. You won't see Agent Orange mentioned, but clearly that's what they're talking about.

It's just appalling to know that we have this capability to use as we so desire. It is truly survive-at-any-cost, where we have no moral high ground on anything? That seems to be the mind-set here: we have every weapon imaginary at our disposal but nobody else is allowed to be that way. I find it kind of ironic that the very thing we attacked Saddam Hussein over, we'd maintained in our arsenal for many years! The hypocrisy would be laughable if this weren't such a serious matter.

Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 56 , Apr 4, 2011

1980: Carter's failure on Iran hostages let Reagan win

The Incident:
On the same day that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president, January 20, 1981, Iran released the American hostages it had been holding in our embassy there for 444 days.
The Official Word:
The timing was coincidental.
My Take:
Reagan's people had cut a deal with Iran to keep the hostages beyond the presidential election, to ensure that President Carter's negotiations with Iran failed and that he lost to Reagan. Source: American Conspiracies, by Jesse Ventura, p.104 , Mar 9, 2010

We need Saddam as the bad guy in oil disputes

I can tell you the reason why we keep getting into scuffles with Saddam Hussein: We need him. The fact that we’ve kept him in power and haven’t taken him out is intentional. We need a bad guy there. We need a reason to keep our military personnel on the pulse of the world’s oil reserves. We put him in there--do you think we couldn’t have taken him down by now if we had wanted to? And he knows it. That’s why he misbehaves! Source: Ain’t Got Time To Bleed, p. 35 , Jan 1, 1999

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