Manuel Noriega

And people can say what they want.

It sort of falls under this thing, the national security doctrine, which basically just means like the U.S.

wants to put national security first.

Right.

That's what's important.

Yeah.

I think that's okay for anybody.

They all should.

Every country should do that, right?

Yeah.

And that's part of the reason why sort of like Noriega and Omar Torrijos, like they really gained a lot of steam, right?

They got a lot of power.

But in 1976, Noriega claims that HW was pro-Panama.

Doesn't really make that much sense, right?

It's very much a lie, I think.

I was going to say, it still doesn't make sense.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

But then, you know, like he claims that the CIA sort of sabotaged...

the Panama Canal to speed up the negotiations between Omar Torrijos and Jimmy Carter so that the Panama Canal would go back into Panamanian hands, right?

One of those accelerations was Noriega claims that the CIA planted bombs in the Panama Canal, and when the bombs went off, the claim was like, oh, if Panama owned the canal, we could make sure that this doesn't happen.