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That "who controls the ports thing"...
thunder wrote:
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.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107870.html
And if you wich to review the source material:
http://tinyurl.com/fe6k
LOL, Google is your friend, use it.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903panama.html
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Skipper
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