Cheney urged Bush to bomb secret Syrian atomic reactor

In a "preview" book review, the New York Times has reported that his soon to be published memoir, In My Time, reveals that in June 2007, Dick Cheney urged George W. Bush to bomb a secret Syrian atomic reactor. However, he was not supported by a single other member of Bush's Cabinet, and so was overruled. But Israel did bomb the reactor, three months later.

Cheney also expresses no regret for the WMD and "smoking gun as mushroom cloud" false pretenses that he and other Bush administration officials used to push the U.S. into war with Iraq in 2003. He is unapologetic for the infamous "16 words" in Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, alleging that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium yellowcake in Niger, Africa for nuclear weapons purposes -- despite it being instantly exposed by the International Atomic Energy Agency as untrue. Cheney is likewise unrepentent for his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby's "Fair Game" outing of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame (a counter-proliferation specialist), to punish her husband, U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, for daring to publicly challenge Bush's State of the Union fraud.