Update: But we do have this:
"In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney -- Ford's White House chief of staff -- and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief.
"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do.""
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With all of the same hubris and illegality. We didn't learn a thing, so got to do it all over again....
Can someone please explain to me why Ford did not go public with his criticisms while he was alive, when it might actually have, conceivably, maybe but not probably, well, OK, improbably, had some impact on events? So much for my sympathetic and respectful post when he died. I've put up another one saying that for him (and for Woodward) the Eleventh Commandment took precedence over everything else.
People about the blogosphere are wrestling with that one...was it a good thing or not.
I wish he'd spoken out, but there might have been some threat from or understanding with the Bush administration not to get out of line.
Either way, his words are having an impact now.
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