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To: NOW who wrote (61146)	12/28/2006 2:09:06 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Housing What's In, What's Out 2007 realtytimes.com

To: NOW who wrote (61146)	12/28/2006 2:24:16 PM
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Ford: Iraq war was not justified Former President Gerald Ford said in an newly disclosed interview that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said in July 2004, a little more than a year after President Bush had launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans 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 Dick Cheney--Ford's White House chief of staff--and then-Defense Secretary Donald 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." Ford took issue with the notion of the United States entering a conflict in service of the idea of spreading democracy. But the former president said he was skeptical "whether you can detach that from the obligation No. 1, of what's in our national interest." He added: "And 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." ... ... chicagotribune.com There's another wimp for you. Hiding behind death to release statements that had they been said at the time might have mattered. Mish