Jim Yanik wrote:
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Kurt Ullman wrote:
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"HeyBub" wrote:

Our mistake was not annexing the island - as we did Puerto Rico and
Guam, after 1898. We just "administered" the island until about 1902
when we granted Cubans their independence.
Or as Sen SI Hyakawa stated so succinctly during the Panama Canal
Debate: "Of course its ours, we stole it fair and square."

ISTR a compatriot of TR's advised him to not try to dress up his
taking of the canal zone with any banal explantions, on the grounds
that such an audacious theft spoke for itself, and any window-dressing
would only diminish his legacy.

Or words to that effect- I don't care enough to look it up.


"took it"? (the Canal)
we BUILT IT (at our cost)and paid Panama for it.
The French started it,quit,and we completed it,with much loss of life.
It gave great benefit to Panama.
Then Carter gave it back to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...e_Panama_Canal


Pay attention, now. Canal ZONE. TR wouldn't try to build unless US had
control of the land, and therefore guaranteed access to the waterway
(and more importantly, it could be denied to the unfriendlies.)

Until Carter gave it back to a tinpot dictator, of course.

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