According to CNN, apparently planes are Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has been acutely aware of what can happen when powerful weapons fall into the hands of those with no compunction about their use and no sympathy for those they kill.
I linked to this article for another reason... and that reason is Bush saying, "Fuck Saddam, we're taking him out" all the way back in March of 2002.