Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07

[Hissyspit]

Source: New York Times

Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07

By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: August 24, 2011

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers — still stinging over “the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction” — expressed misgivings.

“I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor,” Mr. Cheney wrote about a meeting on the issue. “But I was a lone voice. After I finished, the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not a single hand went up around the room.”

Mr. Bush chose to try diplomatic pressure to force the Syrians to abandon the secret program, but the Israelis bombed the site in September 2007. Mr. Cheney’s account of the discussion appears in his autobiography, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” which is to be published by Simon & Schuster next week. A copy was obtained by The New York Times.

Mr. Cheney’s book — which is often pugnacious in tone and in which he expresses little regret about many of the most controversial decisions of the Bush administration — casts him as something of an outlier among top advisers who increasingly took what he saw as a misguided course on national security issues. While he praises Mr. Bush as “an outstanding leader,” Mr. Cheney, who made guarding the secrecy of internal deliberations a hallmark of his time in office, divulges a number of conflicts with others in the inner circle.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/us/politics/25cheney.html?_r=2

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And what year did Cheney want to bomb Iran?

That guy must have had a wish list.

[Lint Head]

2. I guess the 'urging' Bush to murder and torture innocent people kinda worked out

for the prick didn't it.

[Marie Marie]

3. Say it with me now.. Fuck Dick Cheney.

That is all. Thank you.

[cstanleytech]

16. Pass, he has already fucked the nation enough as it is so why offer him a freebie?

[Fearless]

4. What didn't he urge someone to bomb over the years? Maybe Tahiti?

...Wouldn't want to be too French right? :banghead:

[KoKo]

5. He's disgusting... I'm sure the media will have a good time with his book...

but, who cares about him because his policies march on but HE is HISTORY...Let the Historians deal with that pitiful, obsessed man who only cared about WAR and Enriching himself from it. He will never be held accountable but his soul will answer to the millions dead from his hands and Donald Rumsfeld that drip with the blood of innocents...and the designs and wishes of the "Project for the New American Century."

[KoKo]

6. Was there ever a country that Cheney and PNAC didn't want to bomb? What's new about that...

:eyes:

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Wow. Cheney goes out of his way to portray himself as a Dick.

[EFerrari]

12. He's so crazy, he really believes he is right and everyone else is wrong.

What does Dick Cheney do for a reality check? He talks to a different mirror.

[russspeakeasy]

8. Why would this lying piece of shit tell "the idiot" anything ??

:evilfrown:

[primavera]

9. Just Syria?

Is there anybody Psycho Dick doesn't want to bomb?

[bluestateguy]

10. Bush put Cheney on the ticket to make Bush look reasonable

Bush: 2 wars

Cheney would have had us in least 4 wars.

[Harmony Blue]

13. Bush said no to Darth Cheney when it came to Syria?

Wow....

[Lars39]

15. Bush put Cheney in charge of finding a VP and Cheney chose himself,iirc.

[Major Hogwash]

26. George H.W. Bush told his ignorant son who was going to be in charge if he was elected, Cheney.

Old man Bush selected the entire cabinet for his son, with Cheney's advice.

But, you'll never read that in any biography.

[iamthebandfanman]

11. thats not news.

they shoulda made a report about what country HE DIDNT want to bomb.

[SoapBox]

14. Hey DicKKKless...STFU and go away!

...hell maybe?

[earcandle]

17. That ANYBODY would request to blow up a nuclear reactor, is completely insane, given the devastation

over not only the people in the immediate vicinity (sure death) but throughout the planet.

That Cheney is the requestor, just proves what a crude oil kinda guy he is..

I see this as Cheney's song from us... Atlas Wept

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. Wouldn't it be nice if during the Dick's media blitz

someone from the MSM actually had the guts to ask him he still believes "Ronald Reagan proved deficits don't matter."
Kind of seems at odds with the teabaggers and the GOP's overnight lip service about fiscal responsibility.

[marasinghe]

19. fucking mass murdering scumbag allowed to prance & pontificate freely -

around this country, while the US military blows the shit out of anonymous targets in the muslim triangle of Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

i see the courageous DU freedom fighter brigade which so ardently supports bombing the hell out the Libyan dictator & his douchebags, hasn't turned up to greet America's mega douche, even on an anonymous bulletin board.

par for the course for hypocritical assholes.

[AndyTiedye]

20. Can We Send Cheney to the Hague Now?

When the evil Darth Cheney was finally brought to justice,
special measures were required.

[goforit]

21. Yada yada yada..........

:wow:

boring

[6000eliot]

22. Would that be the "bad intelligence" that they themselves created?

[BOHICA12]

23. At least Israel listened ....

.... no more reactor.

[Javaman]

24. The question is: What nations did he urge NOT to bomb.

this is some sort of fucking revelation?

it would be more of a story if he urged for peace.

In other news: water is wet.

[myrna minx]

25. Let's simplify your strategy - tell us who you *didn't* want to bomb. It'll be a shorter list. n/t

[Frank Cannon]

27. So the masterful, decisive George W. Bush talked Cheney down.

Save it for someone who's buying, Dick.

My four-year-old niece believes that Santa's elves are real, and not even she would believe that horseshit.

[Kingofalldems]

28. Cheney loves that war--as long as he doesn't have to go

[Glimmer of Hope]

29. Evil pos.

[moondust]

30. Renditioning there while planning to bomb them?

Care to explain, Dick?

Many renditions organized by the CIA involved the help not only of other U.S. agencies, such as the Pentagon, but the practical assistance of other countries, such as Egypt and Syria.

Maher Arar, a Syrian-born dual Syrian and Canadian citizen, was detained at Kennedy International Airport on 26 September 2002, by US Immigration and Naturalization Service officials. He was heading home to Canada after a family holiday in Tunisia. After almost two weeks, enduring hours of interrogation chained, he was sent, shackled and bound, in a private jet to Jordan and then Syria, instead of being extradited to Canada. There, he was interrogated and tortured by Syrian intelligence. Maher Arar was eventually released a year later. He told the BBC that he was repeatedly tortured during 10 months' detention in Syria—often whipped on the palms of his hands with metal cables. Syrian intelligence officers forced him to sign a confession linking him to Al Qaeda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States

[hugo_from_TN]

31. you do realize this was 5 years earlier

[moondust]

34. The Canadian guy was.

I don't know if anybody outside the Bush admin and the CIA really knows exactly when the renditions to Syria began or ended.

It may be the case that Cheney was using the Syrians to do his dirty work while simultaneously plotting to bomb the hell out of them. ??

[MisterP]

32. ladies and gentlemen, Biden's replacement for '12

[drdtroit]

33. This guy wears his psychopathy on his sleeve! n/t