07/26/2009
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The President has said this is a war of necessity. Necessity and he said during the campaign we had to win it."
"President Obama has a new problem on the war in Afghanistan tonight -- public opinion. A new CNN Opinion Research Poll shows 57 percent against the war; that is up 11 percent from April."
"There continues to be much uncertainty about the severity of the outbreak this fall during the northern hemisphere flu season."
"To pull the plug now I think would bring -- I think the president would get clobbered from a lot of people to his right, and the U.S. military would be really, really angry at him if he pulled the plu..."