[doorgunner69]

I wonder if this is the same Gen Funk that planned (or was involved in planning)the Panama operation to take out Noriega way back when?

Too long ago to be the same guy, he was a general back in the lat eighties.

[gaijin]

Most people don’t realize the US invasion of Panama was actually about a bank robbery, more or less:

Corrupt but foresighted Noriega was in the habit of inviting US officials to raucous Panamanian parties, then furtively videotaping the baudy goings-on, the better for blackmail material, in case the US got cold-footed about their support for him.

He spilled the beans and apparently the guy most motivated to “correct the situation” was George Bush senior, former Director of the CIA.

I conceed it ABSOLUTELY sounds like leftist pulp-fiction “The US is Evil..!” drivel, but there it is, all the same.

Apparently the videos were kept in some bank and in a fit of bad judgement Noriega NAMED it, not banking on the depth of the US reaction.

[TXBlair]

Junior Funk