Manuel Noriega Dead

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  1. Sean the Puritan

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  2. Amaris

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    My condolences to his family.
  3. Quincunx

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    :huh:

    If, and I do emphasize if, one were inclined to support Central American leftist revolutionaries of the 1980s, I could hardly think of a more unlikely hero than the drug-dealing military dictator who worked for the CIA and ran guns to the Contras.
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    farewell pineapple face! :waving:

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    Noriega long outlived his usefulness when his troops killed that American soldier and threatened to rape the wife of another American soldier.

    Just because you make yourself useful time to time doesn't mean the U.S. is obligated to prop you up. Or responsible for your actions.
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    Please explain on what grounds I might have supported Noriega.
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    The general impression you leave correct or not is that you are supportive of almost anyone who opposes the United States. In particular people from third world countries.
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    By that measure I support Kim Jong-Un, ISIS and Bashar Al Assad. You couldn't possibly say that I do without being purposefully slanderous. So kindly fuck yourself with a rake.
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  10. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    Or, we can just assume that you're lying and you do support them. Who knows? You're an imaginary person anyway. You're probably Jeriko operating a false flag deception.
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  11. Dayton Kitchens

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    IIRC, correct me if I'm wrong but you have held the United States as much responsible for the situation with North Korea, the Civil War in Syria and the rise of ISIS as any of those individuals.
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    Be corrected then, because that's another lie.

    And even if it were true it wouldn't be remotely the same thing as supporting any of them.
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    Just because the US is responsible for those regimes, does not mean anyone who points that out supports those regimes.
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    How is the U.S. responsible for the regimes in North Korea, Syria, and Noriega's in Panama.

    Ah, another Garamet I guess. I think it was her anyway (some female poster here) who basically claimed that any regime the United States so much as smiled at in the past was forever the responsibility of the U.S.A.
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    I wouldn't have a clue Korea or Syria. But, you can't be serious in suggesting the US did not put Noriega where he was. Same with ISIS. Same with lots of really bad regimes all over the world.
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    How did the U.S. put Noriega into power?
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    Google.
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    He's a fellow SWCS Alumni and so a bit of an inspiration for me. :(
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    That would be just about anyone who was an officer in a Latin American military over the last 70 odd years minus a few notable exceptions.
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    Just because Noriega took course at the School of Americas doesn't mean the U.S. put him into power SIXTEEN YEARS later!!!

    Nor does him working for the CIA. Unless you have an "X-Files" level regard and fear of the CIA.
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    I said SWCS not SOA (although he was also an SOA attendee).
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