Jesse Ventura on Homeland Security Former Independent MN Governor

War isn�t civilized; don�t expect warriors to be

I don�t like what happened in the navy�s Tailhook scandal; I think what those officers did was wrong. But I understand why it happened. When you get a force of that many hundreds of warriors together, there�s bound to be trouble. We�re responsible for making them what they are. You just can�t bring them back into civilization and expect that everything that was drilled into them is going to go away.

When you�re dealing with death face-to-face, there are no rules. It�s all about survival. After that, bad behavior doesn�t affect you all that much.

War isn�t civilized. War is failure. It�s the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you�re taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive. Can you imagine bringing that mind-set into a party?

Military is stronger if all-volunteer

I loved the braless thing. I�m very heterosexual. I�d see women out burning their bras, and I�d go over with a lighter, �Can I help?� I did participate seriously, though, in the anti-draft movement. To this day, I�m against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it�s an all-volunteer organization.

Against the draft; for including women except in combat

If we�re going to draft at all, then we should draft women too, as long as we don�t send them into combat. The problem is men, [not women�s effectiveness in combat]. There�s something protective in men that makes us want to protect women. And that would be disastrous in battle.

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