Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura told the nation that Norm Coleman is a hypocrite who has lost the election for U.S. senator and should give up his fight against Al Franken for a second term.
In a wide-ranging interview Monday night on CNN with Larry King and in his trademark blunt style, Ventura also called former Vice President Dick Cheney a coward for avoiding service during the Vietnam War and made a pitch for himself to be appointed ambassador to Cuba.
Ventura railed against the military interrogation tactics under the Bush-Cheney administration, calling waterboarding torture.
"It's drowning," he said. "It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning." Ventura said he knows because he was subjected to waterboarding as part of his military training.
"I'll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."
Ventura also challenged Cheney for avoiding service during the Vietnam War with college deferments. "Clearly, he's a coward. He wouldn't go when it was his time to go."
As for Cheney's boss, Ventura called former President George W. Bush "the worst president of my lifetime. Barack Obama inherited something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy."
Ventura had one piece of advice for Obama: Appoint him ambassador to Cuba.
"I went there as a governor, I felt comfortable with the Cuban people, I met with Fidel Castro when I was there as governor," Ventura said, adding that U.S.-Cuba relations should be normalized.
"They love the American people, they just dislike our government," he said.
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