 WEEKLY STANDARD: VFF-[PAC] Backs 10 Iraq/Afghan Vets in 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
 POLITICO: Vets for Freedom [PAC] picks 2010 slate
Thursday, May 27, 2010
 FOX NEWS: Blumenthal's Apology Not Accepted?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
- POLITICO: Vets demand Blumenthal apology
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
 YAHOO NEWS: The New Jack Bauer Republicans
Friday, May 14, 2010
- POLITICO: GOP split clouds McIntyre race
Thursday, May 13, 2010
 HUMAN EVENTS: Vets Blast Kagan Nomination
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
 CNN: Vets running for Congress face battles
Thursday, April 29, 2010
 WASHINGTON TIMES: More vets enlisting in the electoral wars
Monday, April 26, 2010
- FOX NEWS: Afghanistan Strategy More Than Just Military
Sunday, February 14, 2010
- Lawmakers Challenge Gates, Wall Street Journal
Friday, December 04, 2009
The Obama administration began the job of selling its new Afghanistan strategy to skeptical lawmakers, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other top officials arguing that success there was essential to preventing new attacks on the U.S.
- Surge Strategy Borrows From Bush Argument, Wall Street Journal
Friday, December 04, 2009
The Obama administration, faced with mounting Congressional criticism, is trying to build support for its new Afghan strategy by explicitly linking the planned escalation to the Bush administration's 2007 Iraq surge.
- Gates: 'No deadlines' on troop withdrawal, Wash Post
Friday, December 04, 2009
The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will "probably" take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday, although he added that "there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out."
- Obama homed in on an Afghanistan pullout date, LA Times
Friday, December 04, 2009
It started out as a projection from the military, intended only for the ears of the president and his top advisors. But in a war council meeting at the White House less than a month ago, Obama proposed making it public.
- NATO Pledges 7,000 More Troops for Afghanistan, NY Times
Friday, December 04, 2009
Responding to American entreaties for more soldiers in Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, announced Friday that the alliance had agreed to contribute a further 7,000 “new forces” to the coalition there following Washington’s decision to commit some 30,000 American reinforcements.
- Time Limit on Surge Draws Fire, Wall Street Journal
Thursday, December 03, 2009
A day after President Barack Obama laid out his plan to send at least 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, his promise to begin withdrawing them as soon as July 2011 had become as divisive as the surge.
- Afghanistan and Pakistan Rattled by Plan for Drawdown, NY Times
Thursday, December 03, 2009
President Obama’s timetable for American forces in Afghanistan rattled nerves in that country and in Pakistan on Wednesday, as American diplomats worked to convince the two countries at the center of the president’s war strategy that the United States would not cut and run.
- Obama to let Pentagon deploy even more troops, but numbers remain murky, Washington Post
Thursday, December 03, 2009
President Obama has authorized Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to deploy several thousand additional troops, as needed, beyond the 30,000 that Obama on Tuesday said he would send to Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon official.
- A deadline written in quicksand, not stone, Washington Post
Thursday, December 03, 2009
In his speech to West Point cadets and to the nation on Tuesday night, Obama said he planned, conditionally, "to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011" -- a gesture aimed to assuage the antiwar left. But in questioning top administration officials Wednesday morning, the Senate Armed Services Committee quickly learned that this withdrawal timeline was less a commitment than an aspiration.
- McChrystal promises Afghan surge results by mid-2010, AFP
Thursday, December 03, 2009
The US and NATO commander in Afghanistan on Thursday told lawmakers that a new war strategy would show signs of success next year, saying many of the 30,000 extra troops would head to the south.
- Nato must follow US example - PM, BBC News
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged all Nato countries to "unite" behind the US in boosting the number of troops they have in Afghanistan.
- Two Messages for Two Sides, NY Times
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
President Obama went before the nation on Tuesday night to announce that he would escalate the war in Afghanistan. And Mr. Obama went before the nation to announce that he had a plan to end the war in Afghanistan.
- With Key Role, Gates Stands to Get Credit -- or Blame, WSJ
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
President Barack Obama's new strategy for the flagging Afghan war is largely the handiwork of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who developed the idea of sending U.S. reinforcements and then helped persuade administration officials to support it.
- President's Afghan drawdown plan called risky, 'unrealistic', CNN
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
President Obama's timetable for winding down the war in Afghanistan may be too short for the United States to achieve its war aims but too long to hold American public support, observers said Tuesday.
- U.S. Opts for Limited Surge, WSJ
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
President Barack Obama has ordered a revamped war plan for Afghanistan that appears to endorse the military strategy of his top generals but will set limits on U.S. involvement in terms of duration, manpower and money, White House officials said Monday.
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