Ford probably told Woodward what he wanted to hear in that interview. It was a nice gesture since he owed Bob a debt of gratitude. After all, without Woodward hounding the Nixon Administration 24/7 following the Watergate breakin, Ford never would have become POTUS.

fogw on December 28, 2006 at 6:16 PM

LOL. Using this logic of course, Ford’s real debt was to the peerless Spiro (I’m an ignorant and corrupt politician but I’m great at alliteration) Agnew. Really anyone who can get into trouble over milk…milk!!

In short though, whoop de do, every single bloody former head of state has opinions which likely clash with some opinions of a current administration.

No one gets to live/decide like that. We’d all live in Schlaraffenland, the land of plenty, or of milk and honey, or one which doesn’t exist on our Earth.

But, this always works best for Bob when they’re either (nearly) dead or in a coma.

doingwhatican on December 28, 2006 at 7:24 PM

…or when an election is really close…smart, deceiving and self-centered operative who believes he will alter world events…heh!

it gives Republicans cover to skip Dhimmi Jimmy’s canonization when that day finally rolls around.

Sorry AP, you are wrong on this. No Republicans of any stature will miss the opportunity to respect the passing of a president. Thankfully they will not follow your advice. This title carries so much honor that it should transcend petty differences. And most everything is petty compared to the honor and respect we should have for our past presidents. Reid should be there, his soiree during Christmas break isn’t that important, look at his schedule of events. South America is just several hours flight from Washington, these meeting can be delayed for a week or two.
Reid, like many others, think the office of the president is just another job. It is that attitude, transmitted via the news media over the years, that has diluted the honorable postition to one of disdain if they are not one of your party. To you if may be no big deal, and to Reid it may be no big deal. But to me and many others that have served this country and served under a Commander in Chief, I am sorry (and disappointed) that you do not see the importance of honoring the passing of any man who has held that postition.

Unfortunately, it was the media and naysayers who made this “all about WMD”. If you go back to the ILA and that AUMF you can see the reasons beyond Saddams WMD and programs (both of which BTW have been found and confirmed).

Those that say it was “all about WMD” are A) using that as an excuse so they don’t have to address the other points in the ILA and AUMF and B) ignoring the WMD that were most definately found in the form of chemical weapons (in drums and in actual shells), the biological agents (in drums) and with shells at the ready and the 18 tons of yellowcake which miraculously turned into 1.8 tons of enriched uranium while under U.N. “seal”.

But, yes, there were plenty of good reasons to go forward with removing Saddam, they’re stated clearly in the ILA and AUMF.

–Jason

[S]ince Nixon got away with his blatant crimes and every President since Nixon has skated away from office after having committed overt and covert crimes
I’d say every president before Nixon got away with blatant crimes as well! Gosh darnit – we need a leader like Fidel or Hugo!

Viva Santo Cindy! (or is it Santa – Sante…shucks I jes don’ know)

reaganaut on December 28, 2006 at 7:30 PM

Quite right!

On the plus side, at least we got a Christmas Card from the president.

Perhaps the DNC will run him and either Obama/Hillary in ‘08?

And I meant to leave $#it spelled out this time, woodward brings that out of people…no pun intended.

[S]ince Nixon got away with his blatant crimes and every President since Nixon has skated away from office after having committed overt and covert crimes

I’d say every president before Nixon got away with blatant crimes as well! Gosh darnit – we need a leader like Fidel or Hugo!

Viva Santo Cindy! (or is it Santa – Sante…shucks I jes don’ know)

But, this always works best for Bob when they’re either (nearly) dead or in a coma.

heh. Nice.

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Me too. But then if the media weren’t so homogenous a lot more people might have been in favour of the war from the beginning.

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That’s an understatement!

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