But there was no discussion of the wisdom of a general war against drugs in Latin America.
With only a few exceptions, those who have been elected have either held high public office as a U.S. Senator, Governor, or Vice President, or been a famous war general.
Another time a descendant of a high ranking Revolutionary War general sent me their family treasure, also a letter from General Washington, only to find out that someone a century earlier had copied the original onto laid paper, the very kind of paper that Washington had used (shown below).
Like a first world war general you compound it by thinking that consigning yet more troops' lives will solve the problem.
Five months and a war later, General Shinseki's guess seems more prescient than their disparagements.
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Mr Darling rejected the calls to separate retail and investment banking, likening them to the strategies of a "general fighting the last war".
In the short term, though, Mr Sanader will have to resolve the problem of Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Like the general, he had a dubious war record in Bosnia and Croatia, but he probably curbed Mr Milosevic's wilder ambitions.
Because of his injuries he was given a desk job during the war, for a period as secretary to a general.
It took driving short term interest rates above 20% in a brutal monetary tightening that for a time seemed like a war in which Volcker looked and acted like a commanding general.
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Instead of building up their war chests to fight a general election every four or five years, the parties now raid them all the time.
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The mastermind behind Bronzeville is General Frank Bacon, a veteran of World War II and Korea.
Analysts believe this could be the beginning of a series of general strikes, with Jamaat-e-Islami determined to show its opposition the war crimes trials and the BNP opposition also threatening to call general strikes over a dispute on restoring the country's caretaker administration for parliamentary polls.
His statement came after a top general warned that the strain of the Iraq war is breaking the Army.
Bronfman and the WJC also helped in the campaign to identify Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general and president of Austria, as a Nazi war criminal.
Major General Patrick Cordingley, a brigade commander in the Gulf war, said this was to be expected.
Zeevi was a retired army general who fought in Israel's 1948 war of independence, the 1956 Sinai campaign, and the 1967 Mideast war.
Given all these risks, why should he choose to stress his record as a war leader almost at the start of the general election campaign?
In the last general elections in 2009, the party set up a digital war room.
And there's a tug of war going on between the Joint Chiefs and General Petraeus and his staff.
War may be a racket, as Marine Major General Smedley Butler said, but in Virginia, it is also big business.
McCaffrey, who resigned Thursday as a four-star Army general, added that the term "war on drugs" is inadequate to describe his new responsibility.
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Officials also chose to rake up allegations by an Ecuadorean general that Chile had sold his country weapons during a border war with Peru in 1995.
And last year, again using the Chicago show platform, Krafcik generated more buzz by commenting on an extremely generous incentive program by General Motors in January that some feared would launch a price war.
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Major General Robert Scales, a retired commandant of the US Army War College, argues that the passage of large numbers of the best and brightest Egyptian officers through American war colleges has suffused the army with American values.
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Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal said the US began the war with a "frighteningly simplistic" view and still lacked the knowledge to achieve a successful end.
Among them, Richard Myers, who just stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mike DeLong, who was a three-star Marine general deeply involved in planning for the Iraq War.
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