Here is more interesting stuff about Gerald Ford.
( Oh, you won’t find this information on Matt Thomas’s
Right Side of New Berlin December 28 blog update or his Dec. 29 blog posting.)
Ford disagreed with Bush about invading Iraq.Ford would have chosen different solution for Iraq
---That was the top-of-the page headline across page 14 of the December 28, 2006 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Below it was
Bob Woodward’s Washington Post news article.According to Woodward, Ford said in a July 2004 interview that the Iraq war was not justified---that Ford “very strongly” disagreed with the current president’s justification for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously.
“If I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly, I don’t think I would have ordered the Iraq War”
--- former President Ford.
Woodward reports that in the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice-President Dick Cheney, and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The article states: “The Ford interview--- and a subsequent lengthy conversation in 2005-- took place for a future book project, although he said his comments could be published at any time after his death.”
