"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."
That's what Gerald Ford told Bob Woodward, in an "embargoed" interview, back in July, 2004, according to the "Ultimate Insider" today, now that his source has kicked the bucket, and both Woodward and Gerald Ford can now admit to the Nation what they were thinking -- "Opinion Leaders" and responsible members of our National Conscience -- back when their opinions might have made a difference.
Now, of course, it's just a postmortem CYA exercise in "Weren't we too smart by half, back when we coulda saved the country, but rather decided to put our 'leadership' in a time capsule and not let anyone else know George W. Bush is an idiot, back when, if we'd said something, it might have made a difference? ...Weren't we smart and cowardly, back then?"
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