It is wearing this bizarre outfit that we first see him addressing a war-on-drugs conference, sponsored by the New Path pharmaceutical corporation, specialising in detox techniques - and like, all corporations in the movies, there is something very dodgy about it.
He died in 197 BC, shortly before the end of the second war, at the age of 72, having suffered an apparent stroke while addressing a Boeotian war council some months before.
This was in response to a government scheme to address a post-war coal shortage.
(As William Shatner said in mock horror at the American Film Institute's tribute to George Lucas, when he "realized" that he wasn't addressing a "Star Trek" convention, "Star Wars?") Trekkies took to Twitter at warp speed, and the furor was put to rest only when the galaxy's leading expert on the topic, Leonard Nimoy, tweeted, "Only a Vulcan mind meld will help with this congress".
Rubio is picking a fight with the one that Lyndon Johnson launched fifty years ago this week, in his State of the Union address — a war that was either partially won or entirely lost, depending on which cable-news channel you're watching.
Here are some of his comments: OCTOBER 1990: Addressing an annual meeting of World War II war veterans at Ulrichsberg, known to attract former SS officers: "Our soldiers were not criminals; at most they were victims".
In Marion he addressed a gathering of war veterans, devoting his remarks to war and arbitration.
Mr Bigley's brother Paul, who was tonight due to address an anti-war rally in Liverpool by telephone from Amsterdam, instead released a statement through Stop the War.
Earlier Ms Black addressed a Stop the War Coalition protest, saying MPs who voted in favour of bombing were "illogical and out of touch".
DIVISIVE questions dominate the Supreme Court's docket this year, but the most emotional decision coming down this month addresses a tug-of-war custody battle over a little girl named Veronica.
