<HTML>In a message dated 2/6/2003 12:08:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, lweiger@umich.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> I don't see what it matters whether it was Israel, the US, Sweden, or the man in the moon who destroyed the nuclear reactor.  A world where Iraq wasn't able to build nuclear weapons at some point over the last twenty years seems to be a better place than one where Iraq was able to manufacture nukes, independent of what agent prevented them from doing so. -- Luke </BLOCKQUOTE> The same could be said about Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea, China, Russia, France, Britain and of course the US. At least a couple countries of this list have leaders as unstable as Saddam. Unless the international environment can deal reasonably with everyone's nukes, it's easy to look like hyporcites or imperialists being selective only about Iraq! DoreneC </HTML>