On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:59:13 -0600, Skipper wrote:

Doug Kanter wrote:

Sort of different. This is our soil. Panama is not.

Panama is Panama *because* of the US. And the Canal Zone was under US
control "in perpetuity" until Jimmy Carter gave it away to a corrupt
dictator. Them's the phacts.

Enlighten us. What Panamanian gave us the Canal "in perpetuity"? Or what
Colombian for that matter? Yup, we stole the Canal Zone fair and square.