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Manuel Noriega, Dictator Ousted by U.S. in Panama, Dies at 83
NEW YORK TIMES ^ | 7/30/17 | RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Posted on 05/29/2017 11:08:30 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

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1 posted on 05/29/2017 11:08:30 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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He was still alive?!?


2 posted on 05/29/2017 11:15:29 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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Pineapple Face is gone.


3 posted on 05/29/2017 11:15:34 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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Yo!


5 posted on 05/29/2017 11:18:53 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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The Panamanians used to call him “Old Pineapple Face” due to his pockmarked complexion. He was very valuable to the CIA at one time, and allowed to get away with dealing cocaine in very large quantities.


6 posted on 05/29/2017 11:22:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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He was only 83? Wow!


7 posted on 05/29/2017 11:23:11 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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“He was very valuable to the CIA at one time, and allowed to get away with dealing cocaine in very large quantities.”

Being a dictator on the CIA payroll has some great benefits, but their retirement plan is somewhat onerous.


8 posted on 05/29/2017 11:28:46 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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He was finally Oxycuted?


9 posted on 05/29/2017 11:48:55 PM PDT by LukeL
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There are enough stories about Tony from Panama...that you could make a 20-hour mini-series. I was stationed there in the late 1980s. Every single day was an adventure in that period.

Tony at some point, had decals to enter all US bases. His daughter returned from outside of Panama in this heated anti-Tony period and wasn’t aware of the negativity. She came up to the gate and just blasted through the Albrook entry gate. SP’s were chasing her all the way through Albrook to the other side of the installtion, and finally arrested her. Some suggest alcohol was an issue for her detention. This was around midnight, and Tony woke to hear the news....got all peeved, and at 6AM, the Panama cops began arresting GI’s left and right as they left for work. Must have been at least a hundred GI’s detained.


10 posted on 05/30/2017 12:23:50 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Sounds like a Banana Republic where only Friends of Tony actually have bananas.


11 posted on 05/30/2017 12:34:37 AM PDT by lee martell
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I’m sure he was a bad guy, was he worse than a lot of the bad guys running the world? One wonders if there were any other motives to arrest him. He backstabbed us I guess.


12 posted on 05/30/2017 1:24:23 AM PDT by BeadCounter (Trump; most pro-life president ever.)
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IBWB


13 posted on 05/30/2017 1:28:20 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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Pres. Carter gave him the Panama Canal and he was hooking up with communist Cuba. The Canal had to stay open.


14 posted on 05/30/2017 1:37:14 AM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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I wonder what he knew about Hillary.


15 posted on 05/30/2017 2:49:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
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So many lives destroyed by drugs. I wonder if he ever regretted & repented.


16 posted on 05/30/2017 2:53:45 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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He was a “cold war orphan” - a strongman originally embraced by the US as part of the bulwark against communism then discarded when the USSR collapsed. Pinochet was another, though Thatcher remained loyal to him for his help in the Falklands War (he helped pin the best Argentine troops along the Chile border so the Brits encountered many young conscripts instead).


17 posted on 05/30/2017 2:56:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Noriega threw numerous ribaldd parties at which senior us officials were covertly videotaped...enjoying themselves zestfully:

Panamanian INSURANCE..?

later there were stories about the US invasion objective being to restore democracy.

It was actually all a huge cover for a BANK ROBBERY, to recover those blackmaIL films.

The effort was successful.


18 posted on 05/30/2017 3:06:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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The post invasion fiasco is Bush 1 wanted the drug indictment quashed.


19 posted on 05/30/2017 3:51:08 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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Interesting. Thanks for posting.


20 posted on 05/30/2017 3:57:31 AM PDT by PGalt
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