Ford Versus W

Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq

"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.

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.

Still does not make up for that pardon. Remember hearing the announcement during the Roosevelt Raceway concert featuring CSN&Y

Didn't appreciate the pardon then, still don't.

Ticket and photo courtesy of Suite Lorraine.