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  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 2/3/09: Generals 'Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Generals\ 'Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Having generals go behind a president\'s back to challenge his war policy is not just a threat to the presidency.

    Generals' Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency 2009

  • As much as the Revolt of the Generals is not played in prime-time, it was historically huge for the military.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wow 2009

  • We had a powerful millitary in 1776 and we have a more powerful one today and our Generals is still on the job ...

    Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate' 2009

  • And even when D brings in Generals and princes, they are mostly caricatures, drunks, idiots and the like.

    What’s in a name… again… « Write Anything 2008

  • He took Generals from the army, Captains and Lieutenants, and they didn't argue about trial.

    What Lies Ahead 1939

  • Their loss in Generals and field officers is almost unprecedented.

    Foreign and Colonial News: America 1862

  • I said it yesterday and your blog today proves it. .the result of all of this was to either call the Generals liars or inept.

    Liblogs.ca latest blog entries 2009

  • But instead of firing about 30 fucking Generals from the Pentagon, we DOUBLED our spending to almost $1 Trillion — all to chase a group with the military power of the Crips around every godforsaken shithole on the planet.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell’s Military Escort 2010

  • In the late conflict no one gave our foe credit for half his daring or ability; hence our attack was not quite so scientifically powerful by a combination of the different arms as it might have been, and the defects of the unwieldy machine called the British Indian Army rendered most glaring: – its appalling quantity of baggage, its lack of organization and equipment of the soldiers, its want of experience in Generals and in officers, the extreme willingness but total inexpertness and inaptitude of the soldier in the arts of war, in the conflict, on picquet, on every duty which a protracted campaign alone can teach effectually.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • The Generals are the legendary rivals of the Harlem Globetrotters.

    Andy McDonald: So You're Planning a Confederate History Month Party! 2010

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