Jim Webb gets it

Jim Webb on Hardball last night:

And you know, one thing, if you look at where we are in the Persian Gulf right now, when I was Secretary of the Navy and until very recently, we never operated carrier — aircraft carriers inside the Persian Gulf because, number one, the turning radius is pretty close, and number two, the chance of accidentally bumping into something that would start a diplomatic situation was pretty high. We now have been doing that, and with the tensions as high as they are, I’m very worried that we might accidentally set something off in there and we need, as a Congress, to get ahead of the ballgame here.

He finally got a response to his question to Condi about whether the Administration thinks it has the authority to attack Iran without Congressional approval. It was written by some junior person in State and said nothing. So, he's demanding a straight answer.