With Netanyahu and Barak desperate to sell their case for an attack on Iran, they've been repeating the urban legend that Israel's 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor stopped Saddam's nuclear ambitions permanently. Since we are getting down to crunch time, I am reposting below an excerpt from my March 2 post, 'The myth of Osirak and the march to Iran.' Like all Israelis, I believed that the Air Force had knocked out Saddam's nuclear program for good in 1981, and that this had certainly proved a wise and brave decision. That was until 2007, when I was doing a story on Israel's attack on the Syrian reactor, and I interviewed Yiftah Shapir,…