フォード元大統領は、チェイニー副大統領とラムズフェルド前国防長官は、ブッシュ大統領とともに「大きな過ちを犯した」と断言。
ちなみにチェイニー副大統領はフォード政権の大統領首席補佐官だった。またラムズフェルド前国防長官はフォード政権でも高官を務めたことがあったので、フォード元大統領はチェイニー、ラムズフェルド両氏の能力や性格や思考法を熟知・把握していたものと思われる。
フォード元大統領は「チェイニー氏は、副大統領になってからというもの、やたらと好戦的になってしまった。往時はそうではなかったのだが」と回顧というか愚痴というか。
☆Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq(米紙「ワシントン・ポスト」)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701558.html
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.
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"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."
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