Ford disagreed with Bush over Iraq war

‘Ford disagreed with Bush over Iraq war’
WASHINGTON: President George W Bush and his top advisers made a “big mistake” in their justification for invading Iraq, Gerald Ford told journalist Bob Woodward in an interview embargoed until after the former president’s death. Ford, who died on Tuesday at his home in California at age 93,... “I don’t think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly,” Ford said, “I don’t think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer.”

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