Reply #12: He dissed *, Cheney, and Rummy for getting into the war in the

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first place.

Woodward: Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq

By Bob Woodward
Washington Post
December 28, 2006
Page A01

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 had launched the invasion
advocated and carried out by prominent veteran's 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.

"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the
emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "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."

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