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Haaretz'George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound,' Olmert told Bush according to former U.S. president's memoirs; Israel eventually reportedly destroyed the facility. Former United States President George W. Bush wrote in his recently published memoirs that he considered ordering a U.S. military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel's request in 2007, but ultimately opted against it, Reuters revealed on Friday.
Israel eventually destroyed the facility, which Syria denied was aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
In his memoir, "Decision Points," to hit bookstores Tuesday, Bush says that shortly after he received an intelligence report about a "suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria," he spoke by phone with former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
--snip--Bush says he discussed options with his national security team. A bombing mission was considered "but bombing a sovereign country with no warning or announced justification would create severe blowback," he writes.
--snip--Olmert was disappointed with Bush's decision to recommend a strategy of using diplomacy backed up by the threat of force to deal with Syria over the facility.
"Your strategy is very disturbing to me," Olmert told Bush, according to the book.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bush-olmert-asked-me-to-bomb-suspected-syria-nuclear-plant-1.323194
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Diplomacy...a very disturbing strategy to Olmert's Israeli government, apparently.
The whole article is worth reading, BTW. U.S. intelligence basically called bullshit on the Israeli claim that there was a nuclear weapons program going on there.
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