Then and now...

[Judy G. Russell]

"It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn't support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay."

John McCain said it, in a foreword to a book by David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest.

Sound eerily like what is being (or should be) said right now about Iraq,,,