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Default That "who controls the ports thing"...

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:25:35 -0600, Skipper wrote:


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


Another copy of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, how quaint. Since you
avoided my question, I'll give you a hint. The P. in P. Bunau-Varilla
stands for Phillipe.

So, would you like to explain how an engineer with the failed French
attempt to build a canal, comes to sign a Panamanian Treaty with the US?
Yup, we stole it fair and square.