But above all, he wants to get back in front of the wave. But the Israelis have done similar things in the past. In 1981, for example, they attacked the Osirak reactor on the outskirts of Baghdad, the heart of dictator Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. The U.S. responded by agreeing to a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli attack, that's how irritated they were. In 2007, when I was working for George W. Bush, the Israelis bombed an Iranian reactor in Syria, even though they had not received approval from us to do so.