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George Bush – 'Whatever the verdict on my
presidency, I'm comfortable with the fact that I won't be around to hear
it'. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

George Bush ordered the Pentagon to plan an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and considered a covert attack on Syria, the former president reveals in his memoirs.

Bush,
in the 497-page Decision Points, a copy of which was obtained by the
Guardian in advance of its publication in the US tomorrow, writes of
Iran: "I directed the Pentagon to study what would be necessary for a
strike." He adds: "This would be to stop the bomb clock, at least
temporarily."

Such an attack would almost certainly have produced a conflagration in the Middle East
that could have seen Iran retaliating by blocking oil supplies and
unleashing militias and sympathisers in Iraq, Afghanistan and >>>