“A hero should have honor,” Mr. Ventura said during an interview on Fox News Radio with Alan Colmes. “A hero is not how many people you’ve killed. You know he’s obviously a great sniper. He’s obviously a great shot. He obviously did his job correctly. Alan, let me fire this one at you: Do you think the Nazis have heroes?”

Mr. Colmes said the Nazis fought for a cause “we can’t condone,” the transcript of the interview stated.

And Mr. Ventura’s reply: “Wait. Wait. Wait. When they invaded a country, when they invaded Poland, when they invaded France and if a Nazi soldier killed a hundred people that had lived there, would he be classified a hero in Germany?”

Mr. Colmes then asked is he was comparing the Nazi conquests with the U.S. missions in war.

“Well what I’m stating is we invaded Iraq, we were not asked in. We invaded a country, we overthrew its government, and then we killed people that lived there,” Mr. Ventura said.