By Selena Hill (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Apr 25, 2013 05:18 PM EDT

As former President George W. Bush's new presidential library was dedicated in a ceremony on Thursday, dying Iraq War veteran Tomas Young revealed that he is not "angry" at President Bush for leading our country into war.

Young has been an outspoken anti-war activist who has criticized the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. In 2004, he was paralyzed by a bullet to the spine while deployed in Iraq. Since then he became one of the first veterans to come out publicly against the war. Because his conditions have worsened due to various medical complications, he is currently on hospice care.

Last month he penned an open letter to Bush and former VP Dick Cheney explaining that he will take his own life rather than suffer as his health deteriorates. In the letter, he accused Bush of being "guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans--my fellow veterans."

However, in an interview with the Huffington Post today, Young voiced a more sympathetic view towards Bush, saying that he was "bamboozled" into going to war by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz because "he wanted to be liked," adding "this wasn't his nature."

"I'm not angry at George Bush because he seems like a relatively good guy," Young told HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill. "I think he was manipulated by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, and from what I hear he is divorced from them."

Young also said that he would like to see his letter in the Bush library.

"I think it'd be a great thing for it to be in the library but I doubt they'll put it in there because it reflects the truth that they don't want to tell," he reasoned.

Watch a video clip below.


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