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Biden: Afghanistan Needs Two More Battalions? (video)
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Sen. Joe Biden says that Obama will send two more combat battalions to Afghanistan.

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Hot Air » Top Picks:  Obama’s gravitas man confuses military terms

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Obama’s gravitas man confuses military terms
Hot Air » Top Picks — Obama’s gravitas man confuses military terms posted at 7:36 am on August 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Barack Obama added Joe Biden to the ticket to give him some much-needed gravitas on foreign policy and military affairs.  Biden gave an indication of how successful this might be by managing to confuse the terms battalion and brigade in his acceptance speech at the convention last night.  Most amusingly, it came while Biden attempted to argue that it was John McCain who was militarily incompetent: Speaking at the Democratic National Convention about Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy judgment, Biden ...

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