Summary: Public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, which also shows Obama’s handling of the war in Iraq at record-low approval. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 4, 2009 Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases.