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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:23:54 -0600, "Wolfgang"
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Does the name Noriega ring any bells?

Wolfgang

Still flippin' ticks me off that the US kidnapped him and tried him,
in my opinion illegally, in this country.

Sure, he was scum, but...
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r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

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"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:23:54 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


Does the name Noriega ring any bells?

Wolfgang

Still flippin' ticks me off that the US kidnapped him and tried him,
in my opinion illegally, in this country.

Sure, he was scum, but...
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

Yes he was scum but if I recall, he was 'our boy' was he not? I think he is
in the company of Marcos and Pinochet if memory serves....

john

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"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:23:54 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


Does the name Noriega ring any bells?

Wolfgang

Still flippin' ticks me off that the US kidnapped him and tried him,
in my opinion illegally, in this country.

Sure, he was scum, but...
--

And IIRC, it was moments before we handed back the Canal. Coincidence? Some
think NOT.

--riverman

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asadi wrote:
"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:23:54 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


Does the name Noriega ring any bells?

Wolfgang

Still flippin' ticks me off that the US kidnapped him and tried him,
in my opinion illegally, in this country.

Sure, he was scum, but...
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

Yes he was scum but if I recall, he was 'our boy' was he not? I think he is
in the company of Marcos and Pinochet if memory serves....

john

Yeah, U.S. diplomacy with respect to Noriega set a number of precedents
that are still paying rich dividends today. The same can be said for
the Shah of Iran, Saddam whatsisname and what would have been called,
in a more innocent (read, just as credulous as today) time, a cast of
thousands.

On the way home from work, yesterday I believe it was, I caught the
tail end of a piece on public radio about an effort currently underway
to clean up unexploded (if you'll pardon the term, bill) ordnance and
mines in Vietnam. You know, that lovely little vacation spot in
southeast Asia that some of you may still remember. More than thirty
years later, the U.S. army (and sundry other organizations) are still
cleaning up that little oops. And guess who is paying for it.

Now, I've got no offspring....or, at least none that I've been accused
of, anyway.....so it doesn't matter all that much to me, but those of
you who have may perhaps take some solace from the fact that yours (or
those who survive, anyway) and theirs will be paying for the current
party in Iraq for at least as long. As a matter of fact, judging by
the phenomenal success of the terrorist recruiting effort the Bush
administration has been waging there for the past few years, you may
rest assured that you great-grandchildren will still be paying for it
(in cash AND blood) while raising there own little broods of canon
fodder.

Furthermore......um.....hm......oh yeah, happy Veterans Day! :)

Wolfgang

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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:06:07 GMT, "asadi"
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"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:23:54 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


Does the name Noriega ring any bells?

Wolfgang

Still flippin' ticks me off that the US kidnapped him and tried him,
in my opinion illegally, in this country.

Sure, he was scum, but...
--

Yes he was scum but if I recall, he was 'our boy' was he not? I think he is
in the company of Marcos and Pinochet if memory serves....

john


Yes. So many of 'our' allies are scum. Which we find out when they
turn on us or we turn on them. Surprize? Not really. I think we
supported Castro for quite a while, too, while he was in the mountains
and giving us a lever on the truly awful Batista, who was one of ours,
too. I happen to think Castro was one of our better choices, but, for
some odd reason, he didn't like or trust the American government. Go
figger.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli