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Former President Gerald Ford Dead at 93
Rancid Altoid was one of a large number of readers to tell us that "Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, who was swept into office after the Watergate scandal and later pardoned Richard Nixon, died at age 93, his widow said on Tuesday."
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....sorry.
I went thru Watergate and wanted the book thrown at Nixon. All that guff about pardoning him so the nation's long nightmare could be put beind us -- what a load of self-serving rot! Yes, let's pardon every criminal before trial so the victims can put their long nightmare behind them -- NOT! Every murder suspect, every rape suspect, burglary, you name it -- find a suspect and pardon them before they even get indicted.
There was so much about Nixon that is probably buried forever because Ford pardoned him before the indictment (impeachment) even got halfway done. The nation deserved a full trial, just as every ordinary citizen deserves a trial when susspects are found.
I will never forgive that son of a bitc Ford. May he rot in hell.
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Nixon was a Great Man.
Like Jesus, or Ghengis Khan, or Hitler.
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It really is unfortunate that Ford died before be could be tried and imprisoned (or hung) for war crimes or crimes against humanity.
Ford wanted to continue to escalate the conflict in Viet Nam, thankfully, congress wouldn't let him.
On April 16, 1975, Ford said: "I am absolutely convinced if Congress made available $722 million in military assistance by the time I asked--or sometime shortly thereafter--the South Vietnamese could stabilize the military situation in Vietnam today."
Two weeks later, April 29, 1975, the North Vietnamese moved into Saigon, and the war was over.
Of course, there was also the matter of helping start, and continuing to support the East Timorese genocide:
SUHARTO: We want your understanding if we deem it necessary to take rapid or drastic action.
FORD: We will understand and will not press you on the issue. We understand the problem you have and the intentions you have.
KISSINGER: You appreciate that the use of U.S.-made arms could create problems.
FORD: We could have technical and legal problems. You are familiar, Mr. President, with the problems we had on Cyprus, although this situation is different.
KISSINGER: It depends on how we construe it -- whether it is in self-defense or is a foreign operation. It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly. We would be able to influence the reaction in America if whatever happens happens after we return. This way there would be less chance of people talking in an unauthorized way. The President will be back on Monday at 2:00 PM Jakarta time. We understand your problem and the need to move quickly, but I am only saying that it would be better if it were done after we returned.
FORD: It would be more authoritative if we can do it in person.
KISSINGER: Whatever you do, however, we will try to handle in the best way possible.
FORD: We recognize that you have a time factor. We have merely expressed our view from our particular point of view.
KISSINGER: If you have made plans, we will do our best to keep everyone quiet until the President returns home.
Immidiatly after Ford and Kissinger left Indonesia, Suharto's army invaded Portuguese East Timor. Their campaign of terror included bombings with jets that the US and UK provided and forced injections of birth control to the native population. This genocide killed around a quarter million people.
In 1974 Gerald Ford appointed Donald Rumsfeld as his Chief of Staff.
In 1975 Ford appointed Dick Cheney as his Chief of Staff.
Later that year, Ford fired CIA Director William Colby and replaced him with George HW Bush.
The current batch of criminals are in office because of Ford.
In mid-May 1975, just three weeks after the victory of the revolutionary forces in Vietnam, an American cargo ship named the Mayaguez was sailing from South Vietnam to Thailand. When it came close to an island in Cambodia, where a revolutionary regime had just taken power, the ship was stopped by the Cambodians, taken to a port at a nearby island, and the crew removed to the mainland. The crew later described their treatment as courteous: "A man who spoke English greeted us with a handshake and welcomed us to Cambodia." The press reported: "Captain Miller and his men all say they were never abused by their captors. There were even accounts of kind treatment--of Cambodian soldiers feeding them first and eating what the Americans left, of the soldiers giving the seamen the mattresses off their beds." But the Cambodians did ask the crew about spying and the CIA.
President Ford sent a message to the Cambodian government to release the ship and crew, and when thirty-six hours had elapsed and there was no response (the message had been given to the Chinese liaison mission in Washington, but was returned the next day, "ostensibly undelivered," one press account said), he began military operations--U.S. planes bombed Cambodian ships. They strafed the very boat that was taking the American sailors to t
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Who besides you gives a flying fuck about the East Timorese?
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However personally warm and generous he was, he was a member of the Warren Commission, and therefore a traitor.
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This is the guy who brought Rumsfeld and Cheney into the business of f**king up the world...not to mention one George H.W. Bush at the CIA...
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No, that's a bunch of crap. Ford pardoned Nixon to protect Nixon and the Republican party.