Ford criticises Bush over Iraq in two-year-old interview

Former US president Gerald Ford was highly critical of the Bush administration, saying the Iraq war was unjustified, in a two-year-old interview published only today.

In the embargoed interview with the Washington Post’s famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward in July 2004, which Ford said could be published only after his death, the former president “very strongly” disagreed with George Bush’s justifications for invading Iraq.