Osirak Redux

Lileks brings up some good points on the Iranian nuclear program and a potential Israeli response:

Related note: I wonder what’s keeping Israel from taking out Iran’s nuclear bomb-making plants. Either they know it’s too late, or they know the facilities can’t be destroyed by the conventional means, or they have good enough intel to know there’s still some time and they can wait until after the election. And then they’ll go no matter who wins. If they attack now, and Bush gives them the thumbs-up, it could cut either way domestically. Kerry would have to approve or disapprove, for example. I would guess the latter, lest he want to make the UN and the IAEA look like the dithering fools they are. If Kerry approves, then he’s thrown his lot in with the cowboy-unilateralist axis, and if people want that they’ll vote for the genuine article. The far-left fringe will howl that this is all a Zionist plot to influence the election. The far-right fringe will howl that this is all a Zionist plot to influence the election. Most Americans would look at satellite photos of demolished nuke-bomb factories and think: good thing.

I've been thinking about this also, could the Israeli's get away with bombing the Iranian nuclear program into dust without instigating a miltary response from Teheran? The outcry after they destroyed the Iraqi Osirak (or as Hitchens calls it; Oh Chirac)was pretty heavy.

Oh yeah Lileks, they did use "vodkasphere",