WMD? WTF?

Micah Zenko, a fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, pens an op-ed in today's LA Times in which he argues that Israel, based on previous actions, is most definitely going to attack Iran's nuclear facilities should they fail to meet a late September deadline to halt uranium enrichment.

Logically it all makes sense: they have instigated military action against real or perceived existential threats in the past, including the four instances Zenko mentions, but also every incursion into the West Bank or Gaza to punish Palestinians for rocket attacks from inside the territories.

What raised my eyebrows was this passage about Israel's 2007 attack on a supposed nuclear reactor in Syria:

Four months earlier, Israeli intelligence officials had provided damning evidence to the Bush administration about the reactor, and the Pentagon drew up plans to attack it. Ironically, according to New York Times reporter David Sanger, President Bush ultimately decided the U.S. could not bomb another country for allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction.

My italics. This is more than four years after Bush ravaged Iraq because he thought they possessed WMDs. Either he learned his lesson and held his fire, or he felt it made little political sense for a lame-duck president to go around making war. I can only assume that Dick Cheney was arguing in favor of attack.