Jesse Ventura: ‘Our military has turned into contract killers’

When former Minnesota Governer Jesse Ventura appeared with CNN’s Piers Morgan to promote a new book on Saturday, he was as outspoken as ever.

Ventura was particularly vocal about the effects of paying private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan more than our own soldiers. “They leave our military in droves,” he stated, “and go to like Blackwater — I don’t know what they call themselves now, they change their names around — and they go over there and they’re nothing but cowboys. They don’t follow any of the rules of war, they’re mercenaries, and that’s what we’re turning into today. Our military has turned into contract killers now, contract for hire.”

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