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 US 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.
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