The Bush family seems to like taking prisoners. After ordering the invasion of Panama in 1989, George Bush (Sr.) had US soldiers grab a former CIA associate, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. He's been held in Florida as a POW ever since, but is due for either release or transfer to France for further legal proceedings.
I have a rare copy of America's Prisoner: The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega (with Peter Eisner; Random House, 1997), and it's interesting. Noriega's ground-eye view of the invasion is riveting, as are all sorts of tidbits about various and sundry. A post on some of the details at some point, I suspect.
Every picture tells a story, don't it? Here's Daddy Bush, VP and former head of the CIA, chatting it up with Noriega before things turned sour. How many now remember the Reagan administration's deadly antics in Central America, specifically Iran-Contra? The gang of crooks was all there, Dick Cheney included.
Today's Rune: Partnership.
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Some posts on the details would be fascinating. Points of view - in any situation are so valuable, interesting and educating. How is the book you have rare? Few copies? Out of print? Off the shelves? Yes, we would love to hear some.
Anyway . . . looking ahead :) CHANGE! Hooray!
It's funny how nervous the whole gang is getting now that Noriega has served his sentence. I think they thought he'd be quieted forever. You think they made desperate calls to Sarkozy about extraditing him?
Speaking of Iran-Contra, if you can ever get ahold of it, find "Landslide: The Unmaking of a President, 1984-1988," by Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus. The authors were reporters for the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, both conservative publications. It's a fascinating, and at times astounding look at the second Reagan administration. Oliver North secretly running his own foreign policy from the White House basement; secret deals with sleazy arms dealers for weapons; Contras, secret bank accounts, American policy makers getting taken to the cleaners by everyone. The book is long out of print, but worth finding.
Dick cheney is like an evil highlander. No one has yet taken his head.
THE EVIL DEEDS REMAIN THE SAME, ONLY THE ACTORS WHO IMPLEMENT THEM CHANGE THROUGH THE YEARS.
Unlike Saddam also a CIA favorite; Noriega at least got a book out letting the world know how he had been pimped by the Reaganites.
That he willingly sold himself for dollars; is that in there as well?
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