Deep Politics Forum

Special Report: Twenty-four years ago, the United States invaded Panama to capture Gen. Manuel Noriega on drug charges. Operation Just Cause promised the country a new day free of dictatorship and drug-tainted corruption, but it didn't work out that way, as Jonathan Marshall describes.

A bitter new joke began making the rounds in Panama, recited by journalists and academics. It said of the Americans, "They took Ali Baba and left us with the 40 thieves."

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/19/unj...ga-panama/

CIA needed Noriega out because after working so closely with him smuggling cocaine they knew him better than anyone.


These small countries were the low hanging fruit ex CIA director President Bush made quick work of to send the message of American military might.