Biden tells Va. crowd he and Obama would end war

[struggle4progress]

Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 - 12:27 PM

By BILL GEROUX
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
VIRGINIA BEACH Democratic vice presidential nominee and U.S. Sen., Joe Biden reached out to military families and veterans this morning, saying the Bush administration's mismanagement of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have stretched the military to its breaking point.

"America's not at war, the military's at war," Biden told a friendly crowd of several hundred listeners at a campaign stop at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. The military "is the only thing we're asking anything of," he said ...

He said that while GOP critics call Obama inexperienced, Obama had the sound judgment to oppose starting the war in Iraq and to lead the call for more troops in Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban.

GOP presidential nominee John McCain missed both of those calls, Biden said. "Who has been right, and who has been wrong, on the big, big ticket items?" Biden asked ...

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-09-04-0199.html

[jody]

1. Does Biden mean end the war in Iraq and increase the war in Afghanistan? He says "Obama had the

sound judgment to oppose starting the war in Iraq and to lead the call for more troops in Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban."

The headline "Biden tells Va. crowd he and Obama would end war" is not consistent with the text.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Presumably he means

the invasion.