"That the invasion was 'illegal, immoral and unwinnable', and the 'greatest foreign policy blunder since Suez' is the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers... they speak of loathsome six-month tours, during which they led patrols with dread and fear, reluctantly providing target practice for insurgents, senselessly haemorrhaging casualties, and squandering soldiers' lives, as part of Bush's vain attempt to delay the inevitable Anglo-US rout until after the next US election. Given a free choice most of us would never have invaded Iraq, and certainly would have withdrawn long ago."
Anonymous British officer in letter to the BBC