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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Discussion 3 LTG Sanchez Info 4 Foreign Language 5 Full General

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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[edit] Discussion

The article Iraq War is where "operation iraqi freedom" redirects to. As the latter is a propaganda term it should be avoided. Añoranza 04:04, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Are you stating operation names should not be used on Wikipedia? --zero faults ^{|sockpuppets|} 04:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Its unencyclopedic to use propaganda riddled Neo-Con buzz words.

[edit] LTG Sanchez Info

The LTG Sanchez seems like an important part in the Dempsey story, but perhaps it should be summarized in a sentence or two? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.3.86.104 (talk) 03:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

BIG BIG BIG ISSUE!!! FIX FIX FIX

Dempsey is NOT in IRAQ anymore...

He is the Deputy Commander, USCENTCOM (US CENTRAL COMMAND) at MACDILL AFB, FL. This entire page needs fixing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.31.19.50 (talk) 18:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign Language

Is it really necessary to say that he speaks French in its own section entitled "Foreign Languages?" Frankly I don't see why we even need to list that he speaks French since that is not that uncommon of an ability and it isn't something directly related to his work as near as I can tell. This piece of trivial doesn't really fit in to the existing prose so I have removed it for now. If someone really wants to put it back in the article, try to have a reference with it too. Dwr12 (talk) 00:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Full General

I assume the Senate never got around to confirming his promotion to General? GoodDay (talk) 20:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The Senate did confirm him for 4 stars. It is my understanding that he can not pin that on until he has a "4 star" position. The original plan was for him to head to Europe/Nato and command the 7th army. With ADM Fallon leaving CentCom, Dempsey as the Deputy Commander has to stay on until Petraeus takes over. Gen. Petraeus will not be able to take over until after the surge is complete and assessed. That might not be until September or October. It is unknown whether the post of commander of the 7th army will left open for that long. In that case, Dempsey would be assigned to another "4 star" position and he could pin the 4th star at that time.Claffey27 (talk) 20:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

This was also answered here.. --GrummelJS (talk) 10:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)