And just what makes you think that those Soviet arms weren't payed for by the U.S. Tax payer? In the last few fights that we've been in on the people we have been backing have been using AK's and other Soviet arms. We supported the Afghanis against the Soviets and they weren't playing with M-16s. Some of the weapons were taken from fallen soldiers but quite a bit was financed by the good old US of A.

What I'm saying is that we got ourselves into this mess with no help from the UN (prior to Desert Storm) and then we decided we didn't need the UN, just a coalition of the "arms twisted behind our backs to make us willing". Now that the body counts are rising, now that some of the coalition of the willing isn't so willing, now that what the nay sayers has come true in the way of revolt against the occupation and tying up of our troops on foreign soil instead of securing our own nation, we asking the irrelevant UN to come in and clean up after us.

Yes I wanted UN support before we acted and I still don't see how what we have currently found over there after inspecting for nearly a year justifies the actions we took as initially submitted to the public by this administration. But that is not the point. We are not whining, we are saying we told you so in a nice loud voice.