...you don't know that it was France that sold the reactor to Iraq and was responsible for installing and maintaining it.  Why didn't your hero Reagan put pressure on France not to go ahead with building the reactor?  The blithering idiot was dithering and did nothing, just as he later did nothing when 241 soldiers were killed in Lebanon.

Also, Mr. Fake Lawyer II, there are a mighty lot of "mights" in your posts.  Lawyers I know deal in FACTS, not speculation.  The reactor in question was a research reactor, not a plutonium-producing reactor which France had previously refused to sell to Iraq.

In a 2003 speech, Richard Wilson, a professor of physics at Harvard University who visually inspected the reactor in December 1982, said that "to collect enough plutonium [for a nuclear weapon] using Osirak would've taken decades, not years."

In 2005, Wilson further commented in The Atlantic:  "The Osirak reactor that was bombed by Israel in June 1981 was explicitly designed by the French engineer Yves Girard to be unsuitable for making bombs. That was obvious to me on my 1982 visit."

How about a few facts, instead of "mights," phil.  I'd love to be in court the next time, which would also be your first time, when you try to present "mights" as evidence.  You'd be laughed out of court and you'd have the same credibility as your posts do here - none!