"Do you realize you're being played for a fool or not?" Unfortunately many countries have under the table agreements or other motives. You said it best:
"i just wish that my politicians would have had bigger balls and sent some kind of military help to aid the coalition to kick saddams ass."
We need more people like you ... and we need more governments to pull their heads out of their asses so they can realize they're as dumb as an ostrich with its head in the [iraqi] sand. lol