Hardball: Ford wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq.....

Joanne98

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:03 PM
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Hardball: Ford wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq.....

HAHA! The Bushies have been SUCKERED!

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Cooley Hurd

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:06 PM
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1. Cheney was full of praise for Ford yesterday...

...but Ford, from beyond the grave, disses Cheney.:rofl:

I LIVE for this shit!!!:D

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Joanne98

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:16 PM
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4. I know it so funny. They rushed out to praise him then WHAM!

Sucker punched by Woodward. :)

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malaise

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:21 PM
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6. So damn perfect

although Ford should have spoken out publicly before he died.

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Joanne98

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:22 PM
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7. Yes.

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Botany

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Thu Dec-28-06 10:53 PM
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8. Ford was old school

and he would have seen it wrong for a former President to diss
a current President ....

like him or not he did have "his standards."

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Botany

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:09 PM
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2. Like him or not Jerry Ford went to Yale on an Academic Scholarship

and was an assistant football coach too. He could tell a shit sandwich
by looking @ it and not tasting it.

Hell before he died DICK NIXON
wrote and spoke about never getting our troops involved in the middle east ...
he saw the neo cons coming and even he knew that a ground in the M.E.
would be a meat grinder and a fucking mess.

Shit W's Dad said "Bad Idea" too.

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hippiechick

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:15 PM
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3. no, no no, that's NOT what he said!

In the interview with Woodward - text was up on Matthews' screen while Gergen was commentating - Ford said that he disagreed with Bush/Cheney/Rummy using WMD as their justification for invading. He never said that invading was a bad idea.

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Joanne98

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Thu Dec-28-06 05:18 PM
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5. But he said he would have used other means. diplomatic etc

Edited on Thu Dec-28-06 05:22 PM by Joanne98

By James Sturcke / USA 04:21pm

The former US president Gerald Ford, who died on Tuesday, "very strongly" disagreed with George Bush's reasons for going to war in Iraq, according to a report published in today's Washington Post. Ford spoke at length about the mistakes he believed were made in the run up to the invasion, including those by his former White House chiefs of staff, the vice president Dick Cheney and then-defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.

He told the Post's Bob Woodward:

"And I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/12/28/from_beyond_the_grave_ford_on_iraq.html

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