US President George W. Bush and his vice president abandoned a plan to include "the possible use of a nuclear device" to destroy Iran's uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz over Pentagon opposition, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has said.
"Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney were dead serious about the nuclear planning," a former senior intelligence official told Hersh. But Joint Chiefs of Staff's Chairman Marine General Peter Pace "stood up to them," he said. "Then the word came back: 'Okay, the nuclear option is politically unacceptable."
Hersh termed this a "major victory" for the military, but one that has left "bad feelings" between it and the civilian hierarchy in Washington.
Why, oh why do I find myself unable to perceive this crap about Peter Pace "standing up" to Bush and Cheney? Really, the thought of it just fills me with a case of the giggles because it just sounds so phony.
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