Lord Wellington said this at the height of British power. But, the USA is fighting the Iraq War on the cheap and the casualties are coming home with PTSD and the characteristic wound of the Iraq War; brain trauma.
War's mental wounds command new attention
"The work we did -- trying to get hit so we could find the enemy -- it was insane," Staff Sgt. Mark MacPherson said. "And the guys that did the work, no one was not affected. It's just whether you choose to admit it or not."
Just as the US Army's mute mutiny in Vietnam forced President Nixon to withdraw, when the lifers start their 3rd and 4th tour in the never ending Iraq War; no matter the President nor the political party in charge, the Iraq War will end.