Holy draftdodger - he's as bad as Darth Cheney. Have ANY of these gutless
warmongers ever served?

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/ats-ap-cvn-biden-
vietnamaug31,0,2934547.story

Biden received 5 deferments before being declared medically ineligible for
Vietnam

By RANDALL CHASE | Associated Press Writer
1:32 PM EDT, August 31, 2008

DOVER, Del. (AP) _ Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received
five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of
deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was
disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.

Officials with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign
released Biden's Selective Service records at the request of The Associated
Press. Less detailed records were available from a National Archives
facility in Philadelphia.

According to the documents, Biden, 65, received several deferments while he
was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law
student at Syracuse University. A month after undergoing a physical exam in
April 1968, Biden received a Selective Service classification of 1-Y,
meaning he was available for service only in the event of national
emergency.

"As a result of a physical exam on April 5, 1968, Joe Biden was classified
1-Y and disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager," said
David Wade, a campaign spokesman.

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