Tauscher To Introduce Troop Dwell-Time Bill

Here’s a reason to be relieved if you’re a deployed or deployable member of the U.S. military (though at this point “deployable member of the U.S. military” is pretty much redundant). Tomorrow Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) is set to introduce a bill mandating that the Defense Department provide U.S. troops More…

Flournoy on Afghanistan Strategy

Early in today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on President-elect Obama’s Pentagon subcabinet nominees, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for policy-designate, pledged her support for the upcoming troop increase in Afghanistan. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) asked Flournoy to articulate a military strategy for Afghanistan, particularly “what the end point is [at More…

Michele Flournoy Backs Off Residual Force In Iraq

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) asked Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy-designate, if she still supports a proposal she published for the Center for a New American Security in mid-2007 that would leave 60,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. More…

CLINTON CONFIRMATION: Jim Webb Asks Like Eight Good Questions At Once

Now here’s Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who’s already proven himself to be one of the Senate’s best questioners in his brief tenure. “Should there be a residual force in Iraq?” he asks. The Status of Forces Agreement is pretty clear that there shouldn’t be. “We don’t have a strategy unless More…

Webb: Obama Is Like You

ROANOKE, Va. — “Barack Obama is like you,” said Sen. Jim Webb at a stadium rally here Friday, directly rebutting smears and lies that have swirled around the Democratic presidential nominee.

“When I say I trust somebody, I mean it; and when I say I trust Barack Obama, you should More…