Okay, you have no bug up your ass about me. Whatever.

One of the things you said above was "I have felt for years that when a country uses a weapon of mass destruction, thus placing itself outside the human family, there IS only one response."

Personally, I think that kind of thinking is overly simplistic and more suited to a schoolyard than a highly charged international situation with possible repercussions of such overwhelming magnitude.
That we would respond if attacked is a given. To thump our chests and proclaim we have even bigger sticks than they do and we're crazy enough to use them, seems, to me, to lack a certain finesse, and is more likely to cause an escalation of hostilities than to cause Iran to back down. That's just my opinion.