From NEWSMAX / BLOOMBERG:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he told his boss, George W. Bush, to keep military options against Iran “on the table,” stopping short of recommending a strike against the nation’s nuclear program.
Cheney told the “Fox News Sunday” program that the Bush administration was “not as effective in the second term” at dealing with nuclear-proliferation issues, including programs in Iran and North Korea. Cheney said his own clout “was diminished” in the second term, and Bush overruled some of his recommendations.
Bush decided against attacking a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, against Cheney’s advice, he said, and instead opted “to pursue a diplomatic solution.” The Israeli government “found that unacceptable” and destroyed the reactor in an airstrike in September of that year, Cheney said…
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EDITOR: From the point of view of the USA, letting the Israelis bomb the Syria nuclear facility was a “diplomatic solution.”
