Noriega,M. Eisner,P. America's Prisoner. 1997
Noriega, Manuel and Eisner, Peter. America's Prisoner: The Memoirs of
Manuel Noriega. New York: Random House, 1997. 293 pages.
George Bush's invasion of Panama in December, 1989 happened so fast
that the media couldn't get the story, and was reduced to parroting the
administration's line about Manuel Noriega's drug dealing and "Operation
Just Cause." This book is the story you didn't get -- from Noriega himself,
who is now the only prisoner of war in the U.S., as designated by the Geneva
Conventions. Noriega's version of events is then investigated and largely
confirmed by Peter Eisner, formerly a Latin America correspondent for
Newsday, who was in Panama during the invasion.
First off, hard evidence of Noriega's drug connections was lacking,
contrary to what Americans were told. General Fred Woerner, chief of the
Southern Command, and Admiral William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
both opposed the invasion and were both dismissed. In order to convict
Noriega in court, 26 felons testified at his trial in exchange for leniency.
(This trial caught prosecutors by surprise because Noriega wasn't expected
to survive the invasion; he now had to be convicted at any cost.) Finally,
Eisner sums up three reasons for the invasion: 1) the wimp factor -- Bush
had to counteract a growing perception of presidential weakness; 2) Panama's
failure to help the U.S. with Iran-Contra; and 3) vague worries from the
right that the loss of U.S. control over the canal would be a setback.
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