President Ford's Secret Interview: Critical of Bush, Iraq Policy and Sealed Until His Death

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:52 AM EST

Article Source: The Washington Post

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Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration.

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.

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And doppleganger continues to hate me. Oh well, at least it's AP.

This is amazing stuff though -- a secret interview, sealed until death, critical of the current administration and within his own party. Wow. Just... wow.

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#1 - Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:53 AM EST

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Cassandra

This is very interesting stuff. Especially the parts about Kissinger. Thanks for this posting -- I definitely got smarter here.

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#2 - Mon Jan 1, 2007 10:08 AM EST

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