"We supported the Afghanis against the Soviets and they weren't playing with M-16s."

But we supplied the Afghans US-made Stinger missles, not Soviet style surface to air missles or the RPGs being used in Iraq. Iraq had plenty of oil money to buy their own weapons after the Iran war, thanks. The Afghans didn't. What ever nonsense you keep repeating, the vast majority of the weapons in Iraq were purchased from the Soviet Union with Iraq oil money without the aid or participation of the US. If we had been involved, there would have been no reason not to sell US weapons openly and plenty of pressure from the "military industrial complex" to do so. You're not claiming all those corporations suddenly lost their clout in Washington, I presume?

I'll accept you saying you told us so. I don't believe that a UN presence would have made any difference, but go ahead. Now the question is do you want the UN in or not? You can't take credit for saying they should be there and criticize people for asking them to come in.