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President Barack Obama offers a toast during a State Dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron during a State Dinner at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004, file photo, soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division spread out documents and other objects on the floor while looking for evidence during a raid on an Iraqi house near Fallujah, Iraq. The owner of the house is suspected of being responsible for attacks on coalition forces. In 2014, the city's fall to al-Qaeda-linked forces has touched a nerve for the service members who fought and bled there. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, gunmen gather in a street as they chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government and demanding that the Iraqi army not try to enter the city in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Fierce clashes erupted Tuesday between Iraqi special forces and al-Qaida-linked militants outside the city of Fallujah, a flare-up in a days-long standoff in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo)
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In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 file photo, Nick Popaditch, a Republican congressional candidate in the California's 53rd District, poses for a photo showing his Marine Corps insignia in his right eye in La Mesa, Calif. Popaditch, who was injured in Iraq on April 7, 2004, says, "...if the bad guys come back into control, that's not something I can control 8,000 miles away here. I'm just proud of the fact that when it came time to stand and fight for those things, those concepts of freedom, liberty, human rights ... I'm glad my nation did it." (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)