David Gergen actually said...

"I think he's boxed himself in now over this process. It's been a long drawn out process, too long. He's lost control of the politics of this process and decision making."

"Well constitutionally he does have the power as Commander-in-Chief to keep the troops there. But if only a dozen or so Republican senators... actually support a troop surge and Democrats almost unifor..."

"Absolutely. President Ford has said several times since then, Anderson, that he was being consumed as president by -- he once explained to a group of students that I was with that -- he said, look, 80..."

"I think it's the only way, Anderson, he can persuade the military to do what he looks like he wants to do."