In an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday", former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that he and George W. Bush disagreed on some key national security policy decisions. Amongst the issues of disagreement were waterboarding, Iran, and North Korea, amongst others.

Cheney said:

"The fact of the matter is, he encouraged me to give him my view on a whole range of issues. I did. Sometimes he agreed. Sometimes he did not. That was true from the very beginning of the administration."

One of the issues they disagreed on was Cheney supported taking military action against Iran's nuclear program, however Bush wanted to try to engage Iranian leaders first. Cheney commented:

"It was not my decision to make. The president made the decision and, obviously, we pursued the diplomatic avenues."

Earlier reports in the media also said that Cheney and Bush did not see eye to eye on other issues. Cheney was said to disagree with Bush's decision to stop waterboarding terror suspects, and also disagreed with the president on whether to pursue diplomatic talks with North Korea. However, Cheney and Bush were said to agree on closing secret prisons where interrogators have greater latitude to question terror suspects than at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Asked directly about these in the interview, Cheney avoided answering and said:

"I think you are going to have wait and read my book."

During his television appearance on Sunday, Cheney also said that the Obama administration should not be driven by a deadline to leave Iraq if the country is not stable enough to remain secure.

"I think there's a danger there that you're going to let the drive to get out overwhelm the good sense of staying long enough to make certain the outcome is what we want," he said.