Cheney said he urged Bush to bomb Syria
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Can you imagine if Bush listened to him? Seems like he learned after Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/cheney-said-urged ... 44409.html
Cheney said he urged Bush to bomb Syria: report
Dick Cheney said he urged then-president George W. Bush in June 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria, the former vice president wrote in his memoirs, the New York Times reported Thursday.
"I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor," Cheney wrote about a meeting on the issue according to the newspaper, which received an advance copy of the book.
"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," he wrote.
Cheney wrote in the book "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," that other top Bush advisers were still cautious, smarting over "the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq?s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction."
Instead the Israelis bombed the mysterious site in September 2007.
Cheney also kept a secret resignation letter in a safe while he was vice president in case his shaky health suddenly deteriorated, he said in a television interview released Wednesday.
Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, said that he signed the letter two months after entering office in 2001. It was always in a safe and only one staff member knew about it, he said.
"I did it because I was concerned... for a couple of reasons," Cheney told NBC television in an excerpt of an interview that will air on Monday.
"One was my own health situation. The possibility that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating. And there is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice president who can't function," Cheney said.
The US Constitution's 25th Amendment allows for the removal of the president if the vice president and the majority of the cabinet agree that the head of state is incapacitated. It does not mention a scenario of an ill vice president.
Cheney, who suffered his first heart attack in 1978 at age 37, remains a prominent Republican -- and unrepentant about his beliefs and actions during the Bush years.
"There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington," Cheney said of the book.
In the NBC interview, Cheney stood firm in his support for waterboarding of terrorism suspects. President Barack Obama on taking over in 2009 declared an end to techniques considered torture.
"I would strongly support using it again if we had a high value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk," Cheney said.
Cheney, often portrayed as a hawk and Washington insider who encouraged the younger Bush to pursue the war in Iraq, said that his book would not upset the former president.
"I didn't set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president," Cheney said. "If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things about George Bush. And believe every word of it."
http://news.yahoo.com/cheney-said-urged ... 44409.html
Cheney said he urged Bush to bomb Syria: report
Dick Cheney said he urged then-president George W. Bush in June 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria, the former vice president wrote in his memoirs, the New York Times reported Thursday.
"I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor," Cheney wrote about a meeting on the issue according to the newspaper, which received an advance copy of the book.
"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," he wrote.
Cheney wrote in the book "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," that other top Bush advisers were still cautious, smarting over "the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq?s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction."
Instead the Israelis bombed the mysterious site in September 2007.
Cheney also kept a secret resignation letter in a safe while he was vice president in case his shaky health suddenly deteriorated, he said in a television interview released Wednesday.
Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, said that he signed the letter two months after entering office in 2001. It was always in a safe and only one staff member knew about it, he said.
"I did it because I was concerned... for a couple of reasons," Cheney told NBC television in an excerpt of an interview that will air on Monday.
"One was my own health situation. The possibility that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating. And there is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice president who can't function," Cheney said.
The US Constitution's 25th Amendment allows for the removal of the president if the vice president and the majority of the cabinet agree that the head of state is incapacitated. It does not mention a scenario of an ill vice president.
Cheney, who suffered his first heart attack in 1978 at age 37, remains a prominent Republican -- and unrepentant about his beliefs and actions during the Bush years.
"There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington," Cheney said of the book.
In the NBC interview, Cheney stood firm in his support for waterboarding of terrorism suspects. President Barack Obama on taking over in 2009 declared an end to techniques considered torture.
"I would strongly support using it again if we had a high value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk," Cheney said.
Cheney, often portrayed as a hawk and Washington insider who encouraged the younger Bush to pursue the war in Iraq, said that his book would not upset the former president.
"I didn't set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president," Cheney said. "If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things about George Bush. And believe every word of it."
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But that may still be the case. Cheney could have just written that to keep up the appearance that Bush was really running the show.
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if i ever decide to read it i might get it from the library. he is not getting a dime from me....
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I wouldnt talk too much shit about Cheney, he might suggest they bomb your town too!
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lewis black said it best when speaking of cheney....
"the good die young. PRICKS live forever!!"
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
for the least they could possibly do
as i recall he was vice president, not the commander-guy......
at any rate, i am glad this asshole no longer has his finger on the trigger....
he probably should not have it on any trigger...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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george wont bomb syria like i want him to. do you think you can do it for me? thanks.
love,
dick.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I don't think he would put "love." You have to have a heart to love.
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
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i just wanted to put the words love and dick together.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
Is it good thing or a bad thing that Syria doesn't have a nuclear program based on the current situation?
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it is a good thing that Syria does not have a nuclear program .. period
it would also be a good thing if israel, US and pakistan didn't have one either ...
edit:
Does Israel have nuclear weapons?
warfare has evolved now tho ... it's not done in grand scales ... it's done covertly and through economic sanctions ...
israel has nuclear weapons ... officially, they have no comment tho ...
Not only does Israel have Nukes, they gave Nuclear Technology to Apartheid South Africa, during Apartheid. When the entire word was boycotting the racist South African system. Israel was giving them weapons and technology.
and Israel got it from the US.
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Fixed.
for the least they could possibly do