IIRC, King William IV once noisily spat out of the window of his state coach - and right into less-than-admiring crowd...
If Secretary Rumsfeld had testified in 2001 that he could wage war on the Taliban and Iraq for four years and only lose 1500 casualties, he would have been ridiculed and laughed off of the hill as some pie in the sky Polyanna. A truly remarkable accomplishment is the low casualties.