mimo2005

NEW YORK Bob Woodward is back on the front page of The Washington Post on Thursday with a Watergate era figure, but this time the subject is a very current one: the Iraq war. In the article, Woodward reveals that the late President Gerald R. Ford said in a four-hour embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified.


http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/..._id=1003525547

Ben123

I am not the biggest fan of the Iraq war, but I think it is a huge negative on the Washington post's part to politicize someone's death even before his funeral. It is inevitable that people will politicize his death, but they should allow America, and Gerald Ford's family to greive and mourn, before people start using his death to push their own agenda, whatever it is.

mimo2005

Ford owned and pwned Bush from his grave and he knew it .

Ford asked that this interview be released once he is dead .

Wozer

I knew there was a reason I liked that clumsy d00d!

Ben123

I'm guessing you are a Democrat right?

Funny when Canada legalizes gay marriages, Rosie O'Donnell goes on her show and says "I love Canada." When Ford says he doesn't support the war, people who called him a criminal for pardoning Nixon suddenly love him... The hatred falls into the memory hole.

Wozer

yep...you got an axe to grind...

yur guess is dead wrong...I'm a realist...I rarely support the Democratic way of social subsidizing, but would far rather that be happening than the wasted war going on right now...

so exactly what did Nixon do that other's hadn't been doing before him?...yeah, he got caught..doing exactly what the Dems have repeatedly done...in fact what both parties are always doing...so he was a nutcase about documentation and taped everything...his real mistake was not being able to edit a tape properly to get away with it...I rather think Nixon did some great things and future history will probably agree...I mean the man had the state of mind to not pull an Al Gore when he lost to Kennedy when there was definite proof of ballot fraud...unlike many Presidents he was a man who had the ability to place the needs of our country before his own...

I for one would put his actions far less criminal than those of Bush and his cronies..

yustr

Ford was never really hated. He was just more proof of a failed system. It was Nixon who was hated.

What Nixon (and Johnson before him) did was destroy a generation’s belief system.

Think back (or read about) the period 1968 – 1973. These years saw riots and political upheaval; The Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Marches on Washington; Viet Nam; Watergate; The Pentagon Papers; The Government lying about Laos and Cambodia; Kent State; J. Edgar Hoover; etc…

How could we still feel we had a Government “of the people, by the people, for the people.”?

Justice was not well served throughout that period and Ford’s pardon of Nixon was culmination of these years of turmoil. Some may feel it was the right thing to do from our perspective looking back but it certainly was not at the time.