Last night we watched The Panama Deception, a 1992 documentary about the U.S. invasion of Panama. I have no time to write, so I'll just copy a couple snippets from the AFI catalog.
The film was banned for a time in Panama . . . and the U.S. Public Broacasting Service refused to air the film.
Synopsis:
The United States' 1989 invasion of Panama is explored, putting forward the notion that the true reason for the invasion was not alleged drug dealing by Nicaraguan strong man Manuel Noriega, but the George H. W. Bush Administration's desire to cancel President Jimmy Carter's ceding of the Canal Zone to Panama.
And the following is from a Wikipedia entry.
[The military action was codenamed] Operation Just Cause by the Pentagon to sustain the perceived legitimacy of the invasion. General Colin Powell said that he liked the name because "even our severest critics would have to utter 'Just Cause' while denouncing us." Critics, however, renamed it Operation "Just 'Cuz," arguing that it had been undertaken "just [be]cause Bush felt like it."
The U.S. government invoked self-defense as a legal justification for the invasion.
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