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    Manuel Noriega dies

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    Manuel Noriega, Dictator Ousted by U.S. in Panama, Dies

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/w...nama.html?_r=0

    He was 83.

    Manuel Antonio Noriega, the brash former dictator of Panama and sometime ally of the United States whose ties to drug trafficking led to his ouster in 1989 in what was then the largest American military action since the Vietnam War, has died.



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    Operation Just Because.

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    Sad day for lefties

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    I remember when we got word we were going to invade Panama. I got called in and the initial briefing went kind of like this.

    Ops: Top, we are going to invade Panama?

    Me: Just us?

    Ops: No, EVERYBODY.

    Me: Okay... Why?

    Ops: Well, because.

    Me: Because... why?

    Ops: Just Because.

    Me: Okay.

    At that point, in our little circle, Operation Just Cause came to be forever known as Operation Just Because. I never really understood why we deployed 25,000 guys to take Noriega down when a team from 7th SFGA could have just taken a van and driven in from Ft. Gulick and popped him. They could have been home before dinner.

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