Yes they do; just give war a chance! Seriously, if we wouldn't go to war with a country because it uses a WMD against us, we might as well wave the white flag right now.
I believe peace in Iraq lies on the other side of war. Saddam must go.
Hereby nominated for Quote of the Day. :)
But Iraq hasn't used WMD against us -- unless you count airliners filled with jet fuel as WMD. So you are avoiding the real issue. In the past, when facing a deadly adversary armed with doomsday weapons, US policy has been conditioned by the unacceptable losses that would attend a direct confrontation. Saddam can play that game too. He's been trying to get into the club since the 1980s, and he's been at least a borderline member of the club since the Gulf War. Why do you think he's still there?
It is protection for Saddam to have biological and chemical weapons, because, in the final analysis, if pressed, if he is surrounded in Baghdad, he will threaten to use them. He's capable of that. This is a sort of Samson complex--if you push me too hard, I'll bring the house down, on myself and on everyone else. Washington realizes that this is a possibility. For obvious reasons, it's not talked about openly. No one in Washington wants to tell the American people that Saddam is still capable of blackmailing us. They're acting as if he is capable of blackmailing them, but they are not going to admit it openly.Said K. Aburish, author of Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge
PBS Frontline: The Survival of Saddam, January 2000