From Beyond the Grave

“I don’t think I would have gone to war.”
“Rumsfeld, and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq.”
-Former president Gerald Ford, in a 2004 interview with Bob Woodward.
I think what strikes me most is that he said this two years ago, back when most of the country was still giving Bush’s policies the benefit of a doubt. Ford wasn’t the only grownup who disagreed with the Bushites but didn’t speak out. Does party loyalty compel mute assent while the country marches off to disaster? That’s insane.
The army’s Major H. R. McMaster last year published “Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Viet Nam.”
This is an important book, but it came forty years too late.
It may take President Chucklehead forty years to see the light.
Let’s tell our new congress to shut ‘er down and bring ‘em home.