Remembering Gerald Ford

As Chris Floyd so eloquently points out, "it was Gerald R. Ford who took those famously amoral and criminally incompetent backroom operators, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, out of the lower quadrants of the twisted bowels of the Nixon White House and raised them to the highest levels of American government, where, in one form or another, overtly and covertly, they have inflicted their primitive ideology and violent psychodramas on the nation, and the world, for more than three decades."

• Ford brought us Rumsfeld and Cheney.
• Ford pardoned Nixon, a criminal who deserved to spend his last days rotting in jail for his hatred of America.
• Ford greenlighted Indonesia's invasion of East Timor on December 7, 1975, thereby sanctioning the killing of around 200,000 Timorese -- nearly a third of East Timor's population -- thanks to several billion in military and economic support from the United States.

And we are supposed to be mourning why?