Thursday, December 28, 2006

Debunking Woodward

Quoting Bob Woodward from a WAPO interview which was curiously only to be released after Fords death he states:

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 launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration.

However in the last known interview of Ford from THOMAS M. DeFRANK of the New York Daily News in an article titled Last lunch with a legend Ford says something very different:

Ford was a few weeks shy of his 93rd birthday as we chatted for about 45 minutes. He'd been visited by President Bush and said."Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him," he observed, " and said he'd told Bush he supported the war in Iraq but that the 43rd President had erred by staking the invasion on weapons of mass destruction.

and..."Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him," he observed, "but we shouldn't have put the basis on weapons of mass destruction. That was a bad mistake.

So which is it? I'll put my money on DeFRANK as Mr. Woodwards credibility has become more than a little suspect of late.

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