In an interview never before published, former President Gerald Ford said President Bush and his chief advisers "made a big mistake" with their justifications for the Iraq war.
Ford made the comments in a four-hour interview in 2004 with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.
"(Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld and (Vice President Dick) Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq," Ford said.
"They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction. 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."
Now my frustration is with the fact that if Ford and others had decided to go public with these sentiments when the war was first being planned, they may have saved us all from this horrible debacle.
I understand a former President not wanting to openly disagree with a sitting President, but if you see a mistake of this magnitude doesn't it demand action?
Ford wanted to go down on the right side of history.
ReplyDeleteHe and many other repugs have known from the start that this war was wrong, but they lack the courage to stand up and say it.
Now, I will always remember Ford as a coward.
Real Leadership is hard to find these days.