War Criminal George W. Bush Starts Book Tour - Says First Tough Decision was Quitting Booze

George Bush contemplated ordering a US military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel's request in 2007, the former US president has reminisced in his memor to be published soon.

Israel eventually destroyed the facility, which Syria denied was for developing a nuclear weapons.

In his memoir, "Decision Points", to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Bush says that he received an intelligence report about a "suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria" that looked similar to a nuclear facility at Yongbyon, North Korea.

Shortly afterward, he spoke by phone with Ehud Olmert, then the Israeli prime minister.

"George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound," Olmert told Bush, according to the book, a copy of which was obtained by the Reuters news agency.

Bush said 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.

A covert raid was discussed, but it was considered too risky to slip a team in and out of Syria undetected.

Bush received an intelligence assessment from then-CIA Director Mike Hayden, who reported that analysts had high confidence the plant housed a nuclear reactor but low confidence of a Syrian nuclear weapons programme.

Bush said he told Olmert, "I cannot justify an attack on a sovereign nation unless my intelligence agencies stand up and say it's a weapons programme."

Faulty intelligence

Bush had ordered the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on intelligence that said Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.

Olmert was disappointed by 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.

Bush denies charges that arose at the time that he had given a "green light" for Israel to attack the installation.

"Prime Minister Olmert hadn't asked for a green light and I hadn't given one. He had done what he believed was necessary to protect Israel," Bush says in the book.

In Jerusalem, Olmert's office declined comment on the disclosures in the Bush memoir.

Israel has never formally confirmed carrying out the sortie or targeting a nuclear facility.

The Olmert government was pursuing indirect peace talks with Syria at the time.

But Olmert, who resigned in a corruption scandal in 2008, has recently lifted the veil, speaking of a "daring operation" that he ordered despite opposition.

Bush writes that Olmert's "execution of the strike" against the Syrian compound made up for the confidence he had lost in the Israelis during their 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which Bush feels had a mixed outcome.

Lebanon's young democracy emerged from the conflict stronger for having endured the test, Bush says, but "the result for Israel was mixed."

"Its military campaign weakened Hezbollah and helped secure its border. At the same time, the Israelis' shaky military performance cost them international credibility," Bush says.

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[DougandDonna7]

You are A FUCKING LYING BASTARD! You didn't write a book BUSH it was written for you by some FUCKED up speech writer. So you fucking lying bastards can GET RICHER while the rest of us scratch to feed our children, pay RENT. Unfucking believable that PEOPLE BUY YOUR FUCKING LIES! FUCK YOU!

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[KimmoKuopio]

there is no crimes in war, war is the ultimate sport and it has no referee or rules

[zip68]

George W. Bush - WANTED for crimes against humanity, dead or alive

[gooty64]

Normally a puke like this would have no say in this world- but the stupid Americans gave him the power to fuck us all to near death.

WHY for one more second would you continue to go along with the American lie-and yes Obama is an uncle tom pretending to balance out the LIE.

[dumalucky]

@44fastgun The problem with you is that you dont have time to look deeper than the crap you pick up from mainstream.. Why dont you invest time looking at official documents now released. The past is a good teacher of the present.. Take a strole back to the time of Kennedy and look up 'Operation Northwood' Its an official document now relesed because of its age and the freedom of information act. You can read a copy online. You can even go to government sources for this document..

[44fastgun]

@dumalucky "You are the kind of guy that just watches TV"

As a business owner I don't have time to watch TV

"Your (you mean you're?) not very smart"

I'm smart enough to run a business while you're wasting time absorbing a bunch of liberal conspiricy fantasies.

You're saying the terrorists aboard the 3 9/11 flights were not Middle Eastern descent? Palistinians who cheered at 9/11 were cheering for George Bush? Again, Bush blames UBL for mass murder yet UBL doesn't gaive a damn?

[dumalucky]

@iandolor YOu Moron!.. BUSH WAS IN ON 9/11 YOU FOOL

[dumalucky]

@44fastgun You are the kind of guy that just watches TV.. Your not very smart.. You believe what your told on TV.

Anyone who is honest, and looks at the facts.. will come to the sound conclusion that 9/11 was committed by the CIA and Mossad, working together.. The Facts speak for themselves.. . Why not take a look at an official US government document 'operation Northwood' its so old now, you can read It. It was a plan to kill Americans in New York and Miami and blame the Cubans..

[44fastgun]

@dumalucky "are you really one of those idiots who still think 9/11 was done by arabs?.."

Usama wasn't really the architect of 9/11, he's just an idiot who thinks he was? HAHAHAHAHA !!

Why not give yourself a good 5 seconds to think rationally before blurting out nonsensical blabber?

[dumalucky]

@1NationConservative Bush is a criminal whos cohorts planned 9/11.. 

[dumalucky]

@iandolor you need to type into yourube .. plane hit steel must.. and take a look at bush.. are you really one of those idiots who still think 9/11 was done by arabs?..

[dumalucky]

@KimmoKuopio Ok I declair war on you.. that means I can get you shot after first kidnapping you and having you tourtured.. I plan to take both your eyes after cutting your tounge out.. because I dont want you to get upset when your dick is sliced down the middle.. yep, and you see all thats ok.. because as you say .. war has no rules .. or at least for a moron like you.. thats how it is..

[iandolor]

do you really fucking believe the fucking shit you are fucking saying? fuck! i am interested in the mindset of a man who had to make difficult decisions on my behalf. what were you doing to keep this country safe? saying fuck? oh thats a big help! fuck you very much!