LOVE the way The London TImes words things... "Ford delivers posthumous kick in the teeth for Bush"

[Rosco T.]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2522237,00.html

December 29, 2006

Ford delivers posthumous kick in the teeth for Bush

Tim Reid in Washington

President Bush met his war cabinet yesterday to finalise a new Iraq strategy as it emerged for the first time that Gerald Ford, who died on Tuesday, had been strongly opposed to the invasion.

In an interview which he taped in 2004 but requested to be released only after his death, the former Republican President heavily criticised Mr Bush, together with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld — both chiefs of staff to Mr Ford in the 1970s — over Iraq.

Mr Ford, who became President after Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, said he “very strongly” disagreed with Mr Bush’s justification for invading Iraq. “Rumsfeld and Cheney and the President made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq,” Mr Ford told the investigative reporter Bob Woodward. “They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction ... I felt very strongly it was an error.”

Mr Ford also took issue with Mr Bush’s notion that America has a right to enter a conflict to spread democracy. “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.”

Mr Cheney, he said, had been a great chief of staff, but had now become “much more pugnacious”.

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[Raine]

1. TERRIFIC

a kick in the teeth and a kick in the ass from a former President of chimp's own party. :thumbsup:

[blm]

2. Should have been delivered BEFORE the 2004 election. GOPs have no balls when it

comes to telling off BushInc.

[judaspriestess]

3. ahhhh!! this explains why jerkoff is shunning his state funeral

slimy lizard

[Tom Joad]

4. Is this a case of the dead speaking ill of the living?

Of course, it could be argued that W. Bush is a zombie from hell, but still.

[judaspriestess]

5. K&R

anyone know where the entire interview can be read?

[JudyM]

6. Should've used your voice when it mattered, Mr President. nt