Iceweasel
Diamond Member
They took out Osirak and it was a very dangerous mission, politically as well. As fortune had it Ronnie got a good chuckle out of the whole affair but had to go through the motions of denying them a fleet of F16s until it blew over. Killing Saddam from afar wasn't easy, he had many doubles and palaces.If Israel was so worried about him, why didn't they go after him? Let the whole lot of them kill each other.The cost of doing nothing may be more than doing something. The fear at the time was the nutsack was going for nukes. Lots of info on this, the Israelis took out his nuke plant back in the Reagan days so it wasn't out of the question.