Tom Cotton: “President George H.W. Bush's decision to invade and topple…”

“I could go back to the beginning of the Republic with the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa. But there's another example much closer in time and for that matter, on the border. That would be President George H.W. Bush's decision to invade and topple the government of Panama in 1989 without prior congressional approval. He ordered 12,000American troops into that country. We toppled Panama's illegitimate regime, we apprehended the country's dictator, and he spent the rest of his life in foreign custody.” (1:06:57–1:07:11)

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