A reader offers explanation:”John—I think the ‘majority of the military’ line came from these recent polls in Army/Air Force/Navy Times. Do a google news search for ‘army times’ and ‘poll’ or something similar. There is the question of how representative these polls are (this question came up when Army Times called for Rumsfeld’s resignation as well), but thats probably where it came from.

“What’s more revealing is Webb started to say that the majority of the people ‘oppose the war.’ He stuttered a bit and

changed it to ‘oppose how the war has been fought.’ That little change is revealing though, since there are lots of

people, especially in the military I’d bet, that think the war should be fought more aggressively.”