[SatinDoll]

I am very serious.

The Navy hospital wasn’t built until a few years after John Sidney McCain was born. On his birth certificate, which has been published on the internet, his birth place is Colon, Republic of Panama.

Per the treaty signed with Panama in 1904(?), no part of the nation of Panama was ever a territory of the U.S.A. We managed the Canal Zone for a goodly while but it was never a U.S. territory.

[Publius6961]

Per the treaty signed with Panama in 1904(?), no part of the nation of Panama was ever a territory of the U.S.A. We managed the Canal Zone for a goodly while but it was never a U.S. territory.

Why, then, was all the time and trouble for Carter to create the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 even necessary?